Come, we fly...

As I look at this photo two things immediately strike me: #1 Oh to be young again, #2 Note to self: black hair does not become you!

Earlier this fall, I witnessed Cara and her friend Kelly getting excited on facebook about Halloween and wanting to dress up as the Sanderson Sisters from Hocus Pocus.  As I was talking to Cara, I realized she was quite serious. They had a couple of problems...they needed to find one more person for the third sister, and they could dress up but had no where to go.   Cara and Kelly just graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh this spring and have both located in the metropolitan NY/NJ area.  Neither of them have met a whole lot of people...and didn't really have any Halloween event to go to.  I am a Mom who is always trying to offer help to my kids.  Before I knew what was happening, I was the third Sanderson sister and we were going to a costume event at our church.  Kelly and Cara were coming home for the weekend.

We have had a wonderful weekend, although I honestly feel like I have not stopped moving since Friday night.  We all watched Hocus Pocus last night to get in character...and have truly had a wonderful time together.  Our costumes were a hit....but what was almost more exciting for me...was watching how excited and how much fun the girls were having.  The girls are enroute back to their new homes and routines...and have left me with the duty of making sure I share these pictures before they get home.  So, I came up to the computer to share these pictures, and part of me is thinking of telling them that they accidentally got deleted...because, although the girls look fabulous...I look just plain scary.  If you know the movie Hocus Pocus, you know that all the Sanderson sisters are quirky....but I think my character is particularly so.....and so this is the result.  I think I need a "mirror mirror on the wall" that will tell me the truth: "Nancy - don't go out of the house looking like that".    Sometimes, I forget that I am not 22 anymore...and dressing up sounded like a good idea...and it was fun, before the pictures snapped me back to reality.

And in the end...what matters is not how ridiculous I look....but the fact that we had fun planning and anticipating....and we had fun being together....and of course there was candy involved...how can that not be fun?  And there are two young women, who are going back to start their week...in places that are still new and sometimes lonely...who are happy to have been "home" and who have recapured a bit of their childhood this weekend.  And there is a tired old mom, who misses them already!

Cara's choice of tonight's quote: "I put a spell on you" ~ Hocus Pocus, but I went a different route...

"No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart."

~ Robert A. Heinlein