A Bundle of Myrrh

It’s 8:30, the babies are in bed or downstairs, the kitchen is clean, I’m jammied up and I just ate a big piece of apple pie avec ice cream. Today went beautifully! There were times I thought it was all about to implode, an Ephy meltdown, a charred pie (thankfully still good) and seeing the kitchen after supper. These are the moments I wonder to myself why I keep doing this every year?!

But each year it seems to get a little easier. We get through the hairy times with most of our hair still there. The big girls get more eager to help and that help is actually help most of the time now. I want this day to be habit for me so our traditions are laid down. When the babies get excited about something it gets me excited to make it happen for them. So I’ll keep doing this. I made a few small changes this year that I think really added to the ease of the day.

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Color me bad, but I love Halloween, and I also kind of like creepy movies, though I might be getting too old and wimpy for these. I do NOT like horror movies, I’ve seen too many and me no likey anymore. Also, not scary movies that are too realistic like kidnapping movies, gross. Just good old creepy ones. I did recently make myself watch World War Z. I don’t do well with zombies and werewolves but this one I’ll say I sort of liked. Brad Pitt might have helped.

Anyway, it’s this time of year I always really want to cozy up with a creepy movie.

Rebekah posted a million years ago about movies and I started working on my own list then, it sounded fun but was getting out of hand. I’ve seen WAY too many movies. It still sounds fun though and I might finish that post I started working on.

But for now, for October I put together a list (cuz I got lots of time to be doing this) of some good creepy or not so creepy movies that I think are perfect for Halloween, course lying in bed in the dark last night thinking about these movies, I decided I probably couldn’t watch half of them any more! 🙂

The Others, I think this is my favorite ghost story.
The Sixth Sense, oh that M. Night Shyamalala he’s good right?
Signs
The Village
Hocus PocusAll the Harry Potters of course
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Changling, we watched this one at school in Jr. High, why in the world my teacher showed it I can’t say, but I still remember it.
The Birds, y’all, I hate birds to this day because of this movie.
Rebecca
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Kenneth Branagh’s version, warning this one will make you cry.
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, this one always came on TV in Oct. when I was little, it scared me and was long. I’ve always wanted to finish it.
Arsenic and Old Lace, funny one.
Ghostbusters, the LIBRARY SCENE!!!!

And some I’m interested in checking out:

The Innocents  based on a Henry James book I once read called The Turn of the Screw….creepy!!! Or the TV Move titled The Turn of the Screw
The Watcher in the Woods

Do you like creepy movies? What are some you’d recommend?