I miss Halloween party planning!
The title of this blog is pretty much self-explanatory - I miss our annual Halloween parties! I know what you are thinking - "but it is still only August, why on earth are you thinking about Halloween already?". Well, the thing is that at this time of year as August draws to a close I used to start planning the Halloween party, (along with the kids birthday parties and start making my christmas cards as I make over 100 individual ones with different designs - it takes time). By this point I have the theme sorted, (for example our last ever one was a fairground spectacular, with hook a vampire duck from the swamp, coconut shy with shrunken heads, a ghost train and many other activities), and building of props has commenced. So now you may ask "why can't you just do one then?", the reason is quite simple - my children have outgrown them. Sadly teenagers aren't so keen for parties, (who knew!), which is completely understandable of course, I can remember be...