The question this week is "What do you do for halloween?"

My family has almost always attended Harvest Festivals at our local church. These have been fun for us and allowed our children safe places to play games, get treats, and have a fun meal and fellowship with friends and family.

Costumes have always been optional but we've tried to do fun things with a Christian theme whenever we wore them. Our children have been many different Bible characters: Mary, Jonah -- very easy as you pretty much just carry a stuffed whale around with ya :-), Noah -- because we actually have one, and so forth. They've also done simple things like a ballerina (cause we had a tutu in the dress up box), and a scarecrow (because we had overalls, a flannel shirt, and a bale of hay handy), and a pumpkin (because we owned an orange set of sweats and I had green felt on hand to make a hat), and a pirate (cause who doesn't have boys without having pirate stuff in your toy box).

Me, I don't do the dress up thing much. My favorite costume I ever saw though was a girl in a housecoat, pink sponge rollers, and cold cream on her face. I mean, gosh, you party for a while, and then just fall into bed... pretty simple and truly does border on multi-tasking, which of course I'm a fan of ;-)

My husband always does things a bit silly. One year he wore a black shirt with a large red "c" on it. Get it? The red sea? Another year I painted his eye black (yes, it WAS paint....I didn't really give him a shiner..lol) and he wore a shirt with a large "p". You know, a black eyed pea? LOL... he always seems to have the most fun!! Last year the booth he worked at for our Harvest Festival was a story telling booth. He had tons of children sitting on his lap for hours as he told Bible stories. They always tell him he looks silly but they never seem to want to go back to mom and dad, either! He's a good storyteller with loads of good sound effects! Maybe I should put a video of HIM online!! 

This year we are in a new town, and a new church but the Harvest Festival continues at our new church! I am making three cakes for tonights cake walk and will be working in the hotdog line. I've never tried the line "Would you like mustard, ketchup, Jesus with that?" but tonight I just might :-) 

Whatever it is that your family does, I hope you have a blessed time of fellowship together!! Remember, Jesus is the reason for the season.. oh, wait.. wrong holiday.. oh, whatever... it still fits because, I mean, He IS the reason for our joy!!

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In Christ,

Sallie