It seems like in years past we have done weeks and weeks of fall/Halloween activities in the month of October, but this year felt different.
The first weekend of the month we were busy with M's 5th birthday and a visit to Columbus, IN when the kids were out of school.
We did fit in one Halloween event that weekend at a local nature preserve where the kids got candy, and D and I got to meander with them through a nature trail (which is my kind of meandering). It was a little chilly and there wasn't much to do after the trail, but that was ok since we were squeezing it into an already full weekend of birthday and road trip.
The following weekend I took the boys to see a children's play, and the next day N and I saw an American Girl fashion show, which is all the evidence I need that we have more income than what is necessary.
Last weekend we visited a pumpkin patch on Sunday with almost every other family within a 50-mile radius of the patch. It was crowded and.....well, just really crowded. We have been going there since N was 18 months so apparently the word has gotten out how great a place it is. Unfortunately for me and D, crowds typically make a place not so great anymore so I don't know what next year will mean for our pumpkin foray.
This weekend we did nothing festive. I finished up some home improvement projects. G had his first ever sleepover with his best friend and, in a move that shocked me to my core, did not call during the night demanding to come home. Apparently the invisible umbilical cord that keeps him waking me every single night at age 7 is severed when he leaves the confines of our abode.
The busier my life gets during the week the more I am happy to stay at home and do a whole lot of nothing or just piddly stuff on weekends.
And my kids get so much candy at their class parties and during neighborhood trick-or-treating that I don't mind not going to a zillion different events in which they get bogged down with treats.
Yet, the slow slackening of our Halloween festivities makes me a bit sad. They, and we, are branching into other interests, finding ourselves asked to other activities that we'd rather do more than a Halloween event.
The first weekend of the month we were busy with M's 5th birthday and a visit to Columbus, IN when the kids were out of school.
We did fit in one Halloween event that weekend at a local nature preserve where the kids got candy, and D and I got to meander with them through a nature trail (which is my kind of meandering). It was a little chilly and there wasn't much to do after the trail, but that was ok since we were squeezing it into an already full weekend of birthday and road trip.
The following weekend I took the boys to see a children's play, and the next day N and I saw an American Girl fashion show, which is all the evidence I need that we have more income than what is necessary.
Last weekend we visited a pumpkin patch on Sunday with almost every other family within a 50-mile radius of the patch. It was crowded and.....well, just really crowded. We have been going there since N was 18 months so apparently the word has gotten out how great a place it is. Unfortunately for me and D, crowds typically make a place not so great anymore so I don't know what next year will mean for our pumpkin foray.
This weekend we did nothing festive. I finished up some home improvement projects. G had his first ever sleepover with his best friend and, in a move that shocked me to my core, did not call during the night demanding to come home. Apparently the invisible umbilical cord that keeps him waking me every single night at age 7 is severed when he leaves the confines of our abode.
The busier my life gets during the week the more I am happy to stay at home and do a whole lot of nothing or just piddly stuff on weekends.
And my kids get so much candy at their class parties and during neighborhood trick-or-treating that I don't mind not going to a zillion different events in which they get bogged down with treats.
Yet, the slow slackening of our Halloween festivities makes me a bit sad. They, and we, are branching into other interests, finding ourselves asked to other activities that we'd rather do more than a Halloween event.
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