I hate marketing

So I really never planned on "celebrating" halloween. There's always a fall festival here or there to attend so that my boys get to dress up. But halloween is EVERYWHERE. You can't turn down an aisle in wal-mart or target without running into some scary skeleton with fake blood dripping off of it. So my boys are constantly talking about what they want to dress as for halloween. So, I tell them that we don't celebrate halloween but I'm pretty much a hypocrite b/c we talk about their costumes constantly and we are probably going to a halloween party and even trick-or-treating (gasp). For some reason I just don't want to hear my boys say "trick-or-treat." Some of you may think I'm nuts, but it just seems yucky. They don't want a trick, they just want a treat, so why can't they just say, "may i please have a treat...preferably raisins, and not that crappy orange and black chewy, unidentifiable, $1/bag candy?" This is also the first year that my kids have had a say in what they are dressing up as. I like a theme, I really do. I like for them to coordinate. It just seems sloppy for them to have costumes that don't go together at all. Well, Avery wants to be a rock & roll star. This works great. I can have fun with this. I thought it would be perfect for them to both be rock & roll stars. I'd rip up some jeans, get a temporary tattoo, dye their hair...so fun! Well, Finley is not havin' it. Seriously. This is not cool. He just keeps telling me that he is not going to be a rock star, he is going to be Spiderman. First of all, he's obviously never seen a spider man movie. He only knows what he looks like from fruit snacks, A.J.'s old action figures, and all the marketing around target. How uncreative is this. It just irritates me to have one rock star and one spiderman. But, my soft mom heart also knows that he would LOVE wearing that costume. I would be happy to buy him a spiderman costume to wear around the house. Okay, I realize that I am completely over analyzing this and need to get over it already.

Just a case in point, showing my love of a theme: Halloween 2005, A Farmer and his cow. :

Halloween 2006: Family o' doctors.

My prediction for this year: a rock star, a spiderman, and 2 frazzled parents.... Pin It