{"id":3844,"date":"2014-11-03T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2014-12-28T22:08:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:08:20","slug":"halloween-2014-scaring-kids-and-scoring-tracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2014\/11\/halloween-2014-scaring-kids-and-scoring-tracts.html","title":{"rendered":"Halloween 2014 — Scaring Kids and Scoring Tracts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"halloween-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This year we all dressed up. Our family theme was supposed to be \u201chorror movie,\u201d but Charlotte kinda put the kibosh on that with her hysterical insistence on being Elsa. Or did she<\/em>?<\/p>\n

\n

\u00a0\u201cThe movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Roger Ebert<\/p>\n

\"arendelle-overlook\"<\/a>
Arendelle and the Overlook Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Exhibit A: Elsa and Jack<\/h3>\n

Let\u2019s talk about a movie in which the menacing main character is a danger to family members, whose volatility increases after a long isolation inside a giant, ornate, high-ceilinged building in a cold, desolate landscape. Perhaps the acquisition of a brand new leadership position set off an unraveling this character cannot control.<\/p>\n

\"Elsa-jack\"<\/a>
All work and no play makes Elsa a dull girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Read the rest here<\/a>, and you must \u2014 it\u2019s my absolute favorite thing ever written about Frozen<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, thematically incorrect or not, here\u2019s our in-character take on what a horror movie should look like:<\/p>\n

\"halloween-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yep, Sienna and I were zombies (and I leveled up with zombie housewife<\/em>, complete with apron, dangling curlers, and one high-heeled shoe that gave me this great, if painful, shambling gait). The boys were werewolves (as you can see, it comes naturally to my Ogre), and Charlotte was \u201cHeeeeeere\u2019s Elsa!\u201d<\/p>\n

I made a hard-and-fast rule about no gore, because I didn\u2019t want to scare the neighborhood littles who doubtless have more discriminating parents, but I still managed to scare a few kids. One, who actually knows me, stood stock still and kept her little eyes warily glued to me until I had safely gone a few houses down. To be fair, I think the one-shoe-shambling thing was more frightening than the costume itself, because once I removed the shoe nobody seemed to notice the costume. Except my awesome neighbor, who was like, \u201care you a walk of shame?\u201d Which made me laugh hysterically and file it under \u201cfuture costumes (when the children have outgrown trick-or-treating and we go to adult parties again, or for the first time).\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, and God bless Ave Maria for unexpected gifts. Someone was handing out Chick tracts. I didn\u2019t actually get one (probably because my family is beyond hope), but my awesome neighbor gave me hers.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A Chick tract in Cathtopia, because no place is safe from the long arm of Jack Chick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next year I\u2019m seriously considering Buffy as our family costume theme. Charlotte could totally pull off Drusilla.<\/p>\n

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