My kids had been counting down the weeks since the summer. Once summer finishes in our house the next milestone we count down to is Halloween and then of course Christmas. To watch how excited my children become really is magical and you cannot help but get caught up in their excitement.

As we have our attic converted in our house we have all our decorations stored away in our storage unit in Space Storage in Ballymount. My kids start begging each week from around the middle of September for me to go and get the decorations from the unit. I try and hold off until the first of October and then when I come home loaded with decorations their faces light up!

The thought of scrunching through the leaves to go door to door knocking and asking for sweets and treats has them fit to burst with excitement. Each year each house on the estate is decorated to perfection and the “oooo look at this one mum”, you cant help but get into the spirit.

Their little faces with smiles reaching from ear to ear as their bags get filled with more sweets each time. How on earth they expect to be able to eat even half of this bag of sweets is a miracle but that won’t stop them trying and begging for just one more mum, pleassssssse!! The dentist bills would be through the roof if I let me.

Each year we have a tradition for both Halloween and Christmas that we choose a new decoration for our house. It started off small like a light up pumpkin or Spider for the window and each year we seem to get something bigger and bigger. Last year my husband surprised the children with a skeleton, they named him bones and he had pride of place in our window for the whole month of October.

When my husband announced it was time this year to head off Halloween shopping my children decided that bones needed a wife!! So off they went to the shops bursting with excitement. The shop was packed with all sorts of decorations that were flying out the doors with each customer there for the same thing, to make their house as scary as possible.

As soon as my children spotted the female skeleton with the green light up face, they just knew that was her. She was named Bonetta and she was the perfect wife for Bones. They skipped home and we began our display in the window, Bonetta by the front door ready to greet and scare any callers. The giggles out of the two of them each time the doorbell rang was infectious and they howl with laughter as the person behind the door gets a fright when they catch sight of Bonetta.

As our collection of decorations grow and grow having a storage unit is the perfect place to pack them away ready for when October rolls around again. If my kids had a choice when I put the Halloween decorations back into the storage unit the Christmas ones would come straight out, but they will have to wait a little longer for that.

Happy Halloween from Bones, Bonetta and all at Space Storage