[QueenAngie]

Please share your thoughts and traditions
with local fall festivals,
Halloween,
and All Saints' Day.

Do you go to all three?

Do you celebrate just one?

Please tell us.

[mcmama]

I'll go to a fall festival if I have time, and if they have decent food or are selling books I am interested in. I have no use for the usual crafts and rummage.

I love Halloween.

The Episcopal church where my family attends usually has a choral requiem for All Saints day. It is often offered in memory of someone who supported the music program, and is very special.

[QueenAngie]

We do all three too.

For Halloween, we focus on the positive autumn activities.
Never had any nasty or evil costumes w/ the kids when they were growing up.
I forgot one in the other thread. DS#2 one time was the Jolley Green Giant (like on the frozen veggies package.) Green outfit, green face paint, green hair. He was a definite hit and won a costume prize.

[LovingJesusinAZ]

This is an area where DH and I disagree. I don't see anything wrong with dressing up as something "fun" like QueenAngie's DS who was the Jolly Green Giant. I also do not see anything wrong with trick-or-treating.

Hubby, however, is of the school that Halloween should be ignored altogether. Since we've been together we've gone out to dinner each year so we aren't home for trick-or-treaters. Our church has "Hullaballoo" which is basically a fall festival--Halloween alternative the last Sunday in October. We go to a large non-denominational church and I would say 50% of the kids there are dressed up (a couple of years ago when 10/31 was on a Sunday it was closer to 75-90%!) The Hullaballoo event is pretty big--usually over 5000 kids and we have cotton candy, bouncers, carnival games, concerts, etc. Our son is 12.5 months so it hasn't become an issue, yet.

Right now I am just deferring to my husband's anti-Halloween stance.

[pattiewrites]

We do Halloween and All Saints' Day, which is a holy day in our church.