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Halloween Samhain Festival

Hello my babytiful friends!

Time flies and Halloween approached so fast, can’t believe we are at this time of the year!! I love this pumpkin season, I do. The colours of autumns, pumpkins, lovely sunsets, fancy dresses for the little ones and me (why not!? J)…

This year Alma is not that baby anymore, so we decided to dress her up for the first time! She is still crawling so I didn’t want her to have a dress as every time she wears a dress, she falls down. So we had to shop around a bit, until we saw this costume of ‘vampire cat’…She is so funny with it!! We couldn’t place anything on her head as she doesn’t like it, so we couldn’t put her a little hat.

Pacifier clip

There is plenty of Halloween decoration everywhere, in Ireland this is taken very seriously hehe so it’s so funny to walk around any neighbor and see the houses full of lights, ghosts, scarecrows, witches… do you know that Halloween has its origins here in Ireland? Halloween in Ireland has been celebrated for centuries and first originated from the festival of Samhain which dates back over 2,000 years.

Samhain in Ireland was an important festival, it marked the end of the bright half of the year and the start of the dark half. It was also a time to honor the dead and gods using pagan rituals.

The custom of ‘trick or treat’ was founded in Ireland when children and the poor went from door to door at Halloween. They sang songs or offered prayers for the soul of the dead in return for food, usually a soul cake which was a flattened bread that contained fruit. This tradition was known as ‘Souling’.

Pumpkin season

Pumpkin season

Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films. By the way, it’s not a horror movie, but the series ‘stranger things’ is starting on the 27th October, can’t wait!!!

On Monday its bank holiday and we have a long bank holiday full of Halloween parties, so enjoy a lot!!

Love,

Carol

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