Manic Monday - Roll Call

Good Morning All - Since I did not see a post form Jersey this AM. I am posting a quickie 1. Do you like Fall weather? 2. What is your family tradition for Halloween? 3. Do you carve jack-o lanterns? If so, do you roast the pumpkin seeds? What does the JOL usually look like? 4. Will your porch light be on Halloween night? 5. Did you dress up as a child? What was your favorite costume? Have a great Monday ... Faith is calling

Good Morning ......... 1. Do you like Fall weather? Ok you have lived in Arizona ....what do you think.............lol of course I love it from October until March it is awesome except those years we get to 100 in February (rare) 2. What is your family tradition for Halloween? We did not do anything on Halloween for many years I think you need to find a balance in your beliefs and last year our teengaers said hey we have never trick or treated and our friends want to go out and do it so what is the harm and my husband and I talked and decided we needed to balance out a little so we let them all go and even bought a few pumpkins to carve we had a blast and will again this year, I think you need to weigh what you read what those around you do and then make your own decisions, not all will agree with me on this and some may think not doing halloween what kind of craziness is that.. 3. Do you carve jack-o lanterns? If so, do you roast the pumpkin seeds? What does the JOL usually look like? We always did when we were little and we did last year I burnt the seeds and we made the pumpkins with happy faces. 4. Will your porch light be on Halloween night? Yes 5. Did you dress up as a child? What was your favorite costume? Yes one year I was a belly dancer, it was fun then you had to come up with your own ideas and use your imagination they were not so many choices to purchase and my parents could not afford it anyway. HAVE A GREAT DAY TORI

Hi Jen and everyone, 1. Do you like Fall weather? Yes, the crispy air and colors are so inspiring. I love sleeping with the windows open, the fresh air brings such a good sleep. 2. What is your family tradition for Halloween? No family tradition but I like to enjoy the spookiness of the season. 3. Do you carve jack-o lanterns? If so, do you roast the pumpkin seeds? What does the JOL usually look like? We did as kids, I have not in many years. Once the knife slid down my slippery hand and I got a deep cut and lots of stitches so I dont really jump in to actually carve the pumpkins any more. I love seeing the creativity and artistry on pumpkins. 4. Will your porch light be on Halloween night? Yes, I am glad I will be home for TOT this year, in past years I worked until 6p or was out of town. 5. Did you dress up as a child? What was your favorite costume? Every year! Once we were all cannibals with these bright costumes we all made for our entire family. When I was 4 I went as a lamp, shade and all. And the year we were killer bees was another highlight. Have a great day! ~Tiffany

Hey Jen! Thanks for taking on roll call again (and, more importantly, for your email...reply forthcoming). I was off on Friday because of my son's illness but he seems a little better today. Here are my responses... 1. Do you like Fall weather? ~Yes...I love it. I love being bundled and warm and cozy. As a pre-op, I HATED fall and winter because I hated layers...even though I was always cold. Now I don't mind layers and, actually, since I am even MORE cold, they are essential! 2. What is your family tradition for Halloween? ~My Dad always took us trick-or-treating when we were kids. Now my husband and I take our son and dog trick-or-treating. My parents made holidays SO special for us and I only hope I can do equal justice to them for my son! 3. Do you carve jack-o lanterns? If so, do you roast the pumpkin seeds? What does the JOL usually look like? ~ Yes, I do! Every year. This year I did not have ANY tools but I carved a rough drawing into my pumpkin (I posted pics on my profile if you want to look). I also always roast pumpkin seeds. However, this year I found a recipe by Emeril and made them that way. They were WAY TOO spicy for me to eat...which is a TOTAL bummer because I love them. I refuse to buy another $10.00 pumpkin just to get 1 cup of pumpkin seeds out of it! 4. Will your porch light be on Halloween night? ~ Yes. Always. Even to this day it bums me out to see dark houses on Halloween. I understand that many people are not home...or do not have the money to spend...but either way it always makes me a little sad. 5. Did you dress up as a child? What was your favorite costume? ~ Yes...I always dressed up! My favorite outfit was always dressing up as a "baby". A group of us in grade school would wear our pink footie sleeper-pajamas, put our hair in pigtails and drink from a baby bottle. In school! Man how did we NOT get mocked! My WORST Halloween costume story was when I was 13. I wanted to be Madonna so I teased my hair and put it in a scrunchie and actually put paper clips in my ears for earrings (E-GADS!). But, believe it or not, THAT was not the disaster. You see, in all my brilliance, I MADE a Madonna mini-skirt for myself. Not with fabric and a sewing machine, mind you...noooOOooo....but with felt, glue and staples that I had leftover from a history flag project!! I only made it a couple blocks before the whole thing fell apart! Thank GOODNESS my boyfriend at the time was dressed as a hobo with a long jacket. I put that on to cover my heiny and, as it turns out, I STILL looked like Madonna! Have a great day and post your pumpkin pictures! Hugs, JM

Jersey, glad to hear little one is feeling better.... Hugs, Chris

1. Do you like Fall weather? I love fall weather. It has been far to wet this year and I haven't gotten everything done and the trees haven't turned like normal but I still love to cool brisk mornings and evenings and the (sometimes) warm afternoons. 2. What is your family tradition for Halloween? As a child we didn't got TOT my parents didn't believe in it. I only went twice, but I took my children or took them to a harvest festival at church. We always did something. 3. Do you carve jack-o lanterns? If so, do you roast the pumpkin seeds? What does the JOL usually look like? I am not carving, but I am painting some and afterwards I will do the pumpkin and the seeds. 4. Will your porch light be on Halloween night? No. We are going to my youngest daughters and taking the grandkids TOT and then coming back to her house and having a party for them and for my middle daughters birhtday, it is the 30th. 5. Did you dress up as a child? What was your favorite costume? Since we did do the Halloween thing, I had no costume. Hazel

Morning Jen! Well... its afternoon now lol. 1. Do you like Fall weather? * I love the fall weather! 2. What is your family tradition for Halloween? * We don't really have a tradition. We used to go to my granma's culdesac and trick or treat there lol... but that's been years! 3. Do you carve jack-o lanterns? If so, do you roast the pumpkin seeds? What does the JOL usually look like? * Not anymore... when we did... ours were so grotesque lol! We didn't do well lol 4. Will your porch light be on Halloween night? * Probably- but I live in the boonies. We rarely get trick or treaters out here! ha ha 5. Did you dress up as a child? What was your favorite costume? * We never bought costumes. Mom said if we were going to dress up we had to make it ourselves unless we had our own money. So I would usually be a farmer or scare crow lol!

Thanks for doing this again Jen...... 1. Do you like Fall weather? I love the smell and the colorful leaves. 2. What is your family tradition for Halloween? We go down to my in laws and the kids go around with all of us and then go back for hot chocolate.... 3. Do you carve jack-o lanterns? If so, do you roast the pumpkin seeds? What does the JOL usually look like? I have but it is too much work now.... 4. Will your porch light be on Halloween night? Yes but we rarely get trick or treaters..... 5. Did you dress up as a child? What was your favorite costume? My memory is not as good as it used to be....I can't remember what I did yesterday let alone a costume I wore in the past.....(I dressed my daughter Brittany up as Mrs Clause using my tree skirt and putting powder in her hai for gray hair.... Hugs, Chris

1. Do you like Fall weather? Yes...my favorite time of the year...I actually like it when it gets really cold! 2. What is your family tradition for Halloween? None in particular...just fall decorations 3. Do you carve jack-o lanterns? If so, do you roast the pumpkin seeds? What does the JOL usually look like? We used to when Ben was younger...I tried to roast the seeds...a lot of trouble. 4. Will your porch light be on Halloween night? Yes...for the little trick or treaters 5. Did you dress up as a child? Yes What was your favorite costume? My mom made me a mouse costume when I was in 2nd grade and I was a mouse for 2 years. Karla