So, as seems to be traditional in my life, I celebrated Halloween twice, once with William and Jordan and then again at work. Some might resent this, but I love it!
With William, we tried something that we had never done before as our way of sharing Halloween with him. All of us, me, Jordan, William and Sam (Williams Mum) went Pumpkin Picking and while I was mildly dreading it, it I was actually great. There is a fluctuating relationship between me, Jordan and Sam depending on a number of different things that have happened or are happening in our lives. Jordan and I asked Sam if she would be alright with us taking William pumpkin picking and she said yes, we invited her along but she initially said no, which was fine, but then on the day she said yes and in fairness we all had a great time. William and Jordan inspected all the pumpkins, we did the spooky trail, took lots of pictures, ate some delicious food and of course picked some pumpkins. All in all a great day and finally we managed to prove to William that not everything needs to be separated between Mum and Dad. Co-parenting has to be one of the hardest things I have done in my personal life and I by no means get it right, but today I felt like it was a co-parenting win.
Once the personal celebration of all things ghostly and ghastly had been done, we had the actual Halloween day at work. One of the girls had planned a number of party activities, apple bobbing, donut on a string etc etc and in fairness to all of the young people, they all joined in and were really good sports about it whether they won or they lost. After this, myself, Jordan (who was still working at the house) and two of the girls planned a spooky walk for the boys to take part in. The young people did our make up and we went out. We planned a scary story for them first with other creepy noises throughout and then the boys were led through the woods where they were met with blood covered dolls and a zombie. It was completely hilarious. The boys (who many of them like to think they are hard), we’re absolutely shitting themselves, and screamed the whole way through, swearing blind they were going to walk back to the house (but then realising that this meant them walking alone… something they weren’t prepared to do). It was so fun, and the girls enjoyed themselves, scaring the boys to within an inch of their lives. They all begged that we do it again and again, but once was quite enough.
All in all, Halloween was pretty fun, a holiday I normally ignore (I am not one for the scary things) became great fun when I was the one doing the scaring. 10/10 will recommend the scary walk.. thoroughly enjoyable.