Choosing a Halloween Costume

It’s Columbus Day and everyone is home except my son, who had school today. Poor kid.

I’ve been balancing my time between writing the new book and working on revisions on Wedded to the Enemy. My blessed editor found a few more tweaks that need to be made, so I’m working on those in the evenings. Now that I’m staying home, it’s hard to figure out how long it takes me to write a book. It used to be 5-6 months, but I’m thinking it’ll be shorter this time around. Normally I can only work on one book at a time, but I’m afraid if I stop writing the new book, I’ll lose track of where I am and what I’ve written. So, I’ll give it a shot, trying to work on two books at the same time. Here’s hoping.

We dragged down the Halloween costumes from the attic this weekend. My daughter, bless her, wants to be Cinderella. She already has a dress-up gown, so she’ll wear that, and we’ll do up her hair and add some make-up. So easy. My son has decided he wants to be Batman. He already has a Batman mask and black cape, as well as a toy utility belt he got for his birthday, so I’m just trying to come up with something for his torso. I’m thinking black jeans and a black shirt of some sort. I can’t see buying him a twenty-dollar costume that he’ll wear once.

The kids asked me what I was going to be for Halloween. “A really mean mommy,” I told them. They stared at me and said, “But Mom, what are you going to dress up as?”

(You know, because I’m already mean, every day of the year… )

What about your kids? What will they be for Halloween? Or if you don’t have kids, what was your favorite costume as a kid? For me, it was being Miss Piggy. :halloween: