Dressing up is not just for kids!

So, for a Mom whose children go to an elementary school that DOES NOT allow any sort of Halloween activity I dressed up three times in ONE week. I must say also that Amazon Prime does lie during its busy season and the 2 day shipment is only valid when you don't HAVE to have something on time! HA! I ordered a Pilgrim costume as I was dressing up as Abigail Williams, Puritan Girl accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, and NEEDED a costume by last Thursday when I was going to FKE to read MY story. HA. It showed up at 10 a.m. the day I was already up at the school reading! HA! What a mess. SOOOOO, I ran all over the big city of Louisville desperate to find a costume and the best thing they could get me...a nun costume. Whatever am I gonna do with that? Yep, stay up until 2 in the morning sewing a costume. Did I mention I was supposed to make 48 cupcakes that evening....not be sewing a costume. I did find a bonnet, but the store wanted $9.99 for it. HA! I'm not paying that price---I can make that. FAMOUS LAST WORDS.

Not at all attractive and makes me
look like the size of a boat house, but it worked! 

Thanks to a mattress cover found at the Goodwill for $2.49 and this blog--The Waag Blaag--I was able to create a costume for Ms. Abigail Williams. I had to make a mad dash to Wal-Mart at 8 p.m. when I realized I didn't have any ribbing and I didn't have interfacing. AHHHH. I also had to make the collar twice because I made the head opening WAY too large. Nothing is simple. By 11 p.m. I was cursing the fact that I didn't buy the TEN DOLLAR bonnet. OMG. What the heck was I thinking?


I read "The Legend of Spookely the Pumpkin" to all the K, 1 and 2 graders. I reenacted Abigial's story for the EXCEL classrooms. What a fun day!

I'm pretty sure the staff thinks I'm insane or the best volunteer ever.




Earlier in the week I went to Borden elementary and read "Two Little Witches" to several classes there.

On Friday, I went back to FKE and was the mascot for the morning because they were having career day! I even had Firefighter Klein escort me around to protect me from all those little hands! I had fun dancing and being obnoxious! Thank goodness my boys are good kids and enjoy their crazy mother! HA!