Amanda: Mom, can I go to bed early tonight?
Me: What's the problem? Are you feeling okay? Let me take your temperature? Do you need to blow your nose? Do you have a tummy ache? Why do you want to go to bed early?
Amanda: Because I want Halloween to be here FASTER!
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We spent our Halloween this year in our easy breezy well-established way. Not a lot of fuss, but just the right amount of fun for a school night. Pictures with the Iversons, trick-or-treating with them around the block, then handing out candy at the Brantley grandparents' house. (Except this year Brian couldn't make the trick or treating portion of the festivities because of work. And also because I start trick or treating way too early. And also, let's just tell the truth here, Brian hates Halloween. He hates watching our kids knock on our neighbors' doors looking for a hand out; he hates the spooky decorations; he doesn't even really like candy! So, he's basically the Ebenezer Scrooge of Halloween.)
The Iversons and I had great fun shadowing our kids around the block, reminding them to be polite (even though they didn't need too many reminders), and making sure they skipped that one house where that one guy lives who gives us the creeps. God bless him; I hope he's got a bright future ahead of him; but there's no way we're letting our kids knock on his door.
The Iversons and I joked about how our kids have definitely entered the gender-identified phase of costume wearing. Miles and Silas were a Ninja and Thomas the Train, while Amanda was a movie star and Elizabeth was a mermaid. Girlie girls, my two were. And that's ok.
What I savored this Halloween: That they both still want to hold my hand while we walk around the block for trick or treating; that they still love to dress up; that they are old enough to remember trick or treating with the Iversons last year and that they looked so forward to doing it again; that they are no longer afraid of scary Halloween decorations, so we were able to put up a spider web and a fake spider this year, while the girls gazed at it and shouted "OOOOH, SPOOOOOKY!"
So, all in all, another successful Halloween!
3 comments:
Looks like a fun halloween!! I just love Amanda's logic and hope it rubs off on Eileen; going to bed early before holidays is a great idea!
Precious. Love you loving the small things.
Sammy Scott, i hate halloween too for all the same reasons as Brian. Perhaps this is one explanation as to why we are friends.
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