Excited for Halloween

I am super excited this year for Halloween. Not only is the day of the dead my favorite holiday, Christmas second, but it will also be our daughters first Halloween.  I do wish we could have done more as far as festivity-wise but between work, baby and money it just was not on the board this year.

I love how for one day, two if you live in Monmouth/ Ocean county New Jersey, you are able to dress up and just be who you want to be. I love all things nerdy so of course I would have loved to have been able to afford a stormtrooper or a realistic Indiana Jones costumes but again, the money thing.  Our daughter was originally meant to be born on Halloween but as stubborn as she is, she waited til November 1st to grace us with her presence.

This year is going to be that much better with the premiere of season 2 of Stranger Things. The Netflix show that locked me and my wife down for a total of 8 hours straight when it came on last year, or whenever that was. It was great, we spent the entire weekend indoors, ordered Chinese food and had our wine and snacks.

Our daughter will get to enjoy her first birthday dressed as a princess with Halloween related snacks, sort of. We are still unsure on how trick or treating will work since her bedtime, chosen by her and we just stuck with it, is at 6:30pm every night. This will most likely be the only Halloween that she does not fully partake in and that is OK. She would not remember this one anyways. It's more of a holiday for the photo albums.

This time next year will be much different. By that time Mealz will know fully whats going on so it will be well worth it. She'll probably have some friends, hopefully. And the costume selection will be legit. No more of this puffy baby costume crap. She is cute as hell as a lawn gnome though.

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