
One of my favorite times of year is Halloween. When my children were younger, I loved creating costumes for them. In their very first year of “deciding” what they were to be, (my two-year-old daughter wanted to be “a princess” and my son wanted “a hero costume”) a friend who was a much better seamstress than me helped me make their costumes: a satin and lace princess dress and Sleeping Beauty-worthy peaked cap for my daughter, and a Robin Hood costume for my son. (Trust me, the next year he got to be Spider-Man; and the year after that, Batman, and after that, Superman. Hey, you know the drill.)
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