Spooky Snacks the Kids Will Love! Is anyone else into the whole theme food idea? I think it's fun to make snacks that reflect the nearest holiday! The kids really enjoy them! These fun healthy Halloween snacks are super easy to throw together! Healthy Halloween snacks may sound like a contradiction of words but healthy and Halloween can co-exist just fine. Who said it has to be all about the candy? Well yes, Halloween does usually mean candy but candy doesn't have dibs. I think the …
How to Do Halloween on a Budget
I'm happy to talk about one of my favourite words today—budget. I especially love this word when it comes to holidays, because I think most of us tend to go a crazy around special occasions and we often throw financial caution to the wind. This, of course, is total folly. The holidays are exactly the time of year when we should pay extra attention to our wallets, lest we spend the rest of the year trying to pay off our extravagance. Let's focus on Halloween for now (don't worry, Christmas; …
Fort Fright
I can not tell a lie. I was dreading our visit to Fort Fright at Fort Henry. Dreading it. I am a big ole scaredy cat and the thought of a night with the undead gave me chills. I was given some valuable advice though from Susan Leclair from Parks of the St. Lawrence. "Come with friends," she said, "it makes it a lot more fun." And so it was that three moms and four daughters headed to Kingston for a night of terror, the group evenly divided into chickens and thrill seekers. What better group to …
Bye-Bye Halloween
by Emily Cappo The costume catalogs started appearing in our mail earlier this year, arriving even before school started. I was annoyed, as I usually am, because I like to live in the moment and enjoy the season I’m in, rather than have to think ahead about the holidays and winter chill. However, this year my annoyance was ratcheted up to another level. I realized that only one of my three boys would even be interested in browsing through these catalogs. The …
Halloween, Scary or Sexy?
I may be mistaken but isn't Halloween supposed to be creepy, scary, otherworldly even? It is, after all the day when the dead are supposed to roam the earth if we go back to it's origins. Sure, we've morphed it into a day when people dress up and get candy at strangers doors, but it's still about the about the eerie, right? So what I want to know is, when did it turn into a porn movie? I mean, are we all just walking around eagerly awaiting the day we can bring our sexy back? If you look at the …
