Exotic yet ordinary

At the beginning of October, I started pestering Maya about her Halloween costume. What do you wanna be? What do you wanna be? Because this year, I wanted to be on-the-ball-amazingly-with-it SUPER Mom instead of Oops! Sorry! Wait-til-the-last-minute-then-run-around-in-a-crazy-panic Procrastinating Mom. Finally, she answers. A princess. Actually she shouts this, repeatedly, while intermittently jumping up and down, and who can blame her, really, after being asked over a zillion times? So, okay. A princess. That's doable. Uncharacteristically optimistic, I start my search for a pretty pretty princess dress, only I can't seem to find a dress in any stores that a) fit or b) weren't gawd awful tacky or c) fit. The pretend stores on the internets weren't much better. While the Disney Store did have some adorably ickle-wickle sweet dresses, none of them a) fit or b) justified the price, really, unless Miss Maya wore her pretty princess dress every day from now until next Spring... or at least Christmas (Thanksgiving, maybe?) or c) fit.

In the end, Dad suggested a homemade costume. Yes! Of course. We MAKE the costume! Very parent-like! Oh, but it has to be something simple because on-the-ball-amazingly-with-it Super Mom? Can't sew. But she can suggest costume ideas, and to Super Mom, nothing screams classic, homemade Halloween made easy like a ghost. So, we dug an old sheet out of the wardrobe, took measurements, worked some scissor magic, borrowed some white makeup from Grandma, and presto! a ghost costume for Maya.



Admittedly, she looked a bit like a nun, too. Maybe she was a ghost nun. Yesiree. Nothing like dressing your child up like a dead member of a religious order for Halloween.