I won’t dress this up as anything other than what it is.

This group costume was not my son’s idea. He does not share my enthusiasm for Halloween.

He might like seeing the orange and purple lights and spooky decorations in our neighborhood, but he has no interest in helping me decorate our house with jack o’lanterns, window silhouettes, spiderwebs and skulls.

He definitely likes that candy gets handed out every place we go, and he notices other people’s costumes, but he doesn’t really care about dressing up himself.

He indulged me when he was younger – he let me dress him as Woody or Jack Skellington or Spongebob, a firefighter or a basketball player. Did he ever really like this tradition? Some years, it seemed so. Some years, clearly not (he is not smiling in that adorable dinosaur costume I made for him in Kindergarten).

As he got older, the chances of him willingly dressing up diminished, and that’s OK. Not everyone is into Halloween.

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