For any of you who have commented that I seem to be quite an overall optimist much of the time on my blog...gets ready to see another side of me.
I really hate Halloween. Truly think it is one of the dumbest days of the year. Sorry Halloween Lovers! No offense!
On my way to Swiss I actually had to endure on the plane two women debate for three entire hours what their four year olds should be for Halloween. I mean for crying out loud-take a sheet from your closet-cut a few holes and get over yourselves!!!
Too bad I have to start off my deliberate traditions with one I can't stand. It hard to come up with something fun when my whole family knows how miserable I am when it comes to this holiday.
So today I try to start my deliberate tradition for Halloween which is going to be; eating Pillsbury cookies with pumpkins on them afterschool and not eating dinner at all that day.
I know. Sounds more like a punishment than a tradition...but that about sums up how excited I am about this holiday.
So I go to the grocery store to buy those cookies to make...and they are gone! So I go to another store to buy them and they are gone too! Does everybody think that eating a cookie and no dinner is such great family fun-do they all want to make Halloween such a wonderful treat as I do?
So now we are stuck with.....just eating no dinner.
Negative enough for you yet????
Somehow I think I may regret this blog....oh well. Never said I was good at coaching parents on choosing Halloween costumes did I?
Wow deliberate traditions are going sooooo well around here so far.
I think I started really despising Halloween when Chase was old enough to want to choose a costume. We would go to Wal-Mart and he would take hours to choose a costume and then cry and cry as it as not the perfect one. It would never fit properly as he has always been small for his age. I mean who wants to dress up as Elmo when you are in high school anyways???
The older he gets-he has decided handmade costumes are better for him.
Thank God he has not asked me to sew anything for him as I think this would send me into a year long depression.
Rather he has started creating his own costumes.
Problem is...he ends up never liking what he makes-ever-and never ends of really wearing it anyways. So we spend hours gluing things to other things and then throw it all out in the end anyways-all the while having a miserable time fighting about it..
This year-another cardboard box is going on his head with a few holes in it for the eyes and some kind of weird gold gloves. I can almost guarantee you he will not wear this masterpiece to school-or even alone in his room in the mirror for that matter
As you can see I have done a great job of handing my awesome Halloween “spirit” done to my first son.
Bear is the one who likes Halloween quite a bit ...but he does not get to go this year because he can't walk. Isn’t that awful? I suggested a few friends over at 9:30-11:00 pm so he would get some candy-looks like the whole class is coming. Yay!- a whole house full of Elmos, punks and kids with boxes on their heads. And I can't even offer them pumpkin cookies!
Beauty likes Halloween too to some degree. She is more into all the candy than actually dressing up. To tell you the truth I don't even know what she is being this year I have been so busy. I really should win Mother of the Year award don't you think?
She is furious this year because we did not decorate the door because Bear was in the hospital and so no time to carve a joyous pumpkin.
She does not seem to be the least bit disturbed that her three best friends are going as triplets trick or treating and have planned this for the last year together without inviting her to be included. She keeps looking at me and saying "It’s ok Mom-I am fine really-I don’t care!!!".
She may feel fine…I however feel like a truck ran over us both.
See why I hate Halloween? It's just deeply disappointing on so many levels.
Only year I liked it was when my hubby wore a mullet wig to our friend’s party and everyone laughed the whole evening.
Hubby hates Halloween as much as I do.
He likes the candy though and eats it all every single night for about a year and still weighs about 35 lbs after a big dinner.
I want to kill the candy.
Yup Happy Halloween Everyone!!!!
Is this enough negativity for you all???
Trust me...there is more where this came from.-you may have set a monster free.
I think we are all very lucky that my next deliberate holiday is Beauty's Birthday. I am stealing my friend’s “Candy Poster” idea and am very excited.
Birthdays are awesome
At least on birthdays when you do your grocery shopping for your non existent pumpkin cookies-no one is dressed up as a batman or a big fat smelly pig.
Halloween is just so........
Never mind.
I will shut up and go to bed now. I think Bear’s anesthesia affected my brain too :)
Gotta get up an hour early and get those non walking, left out triplet, box head wearer’s (or not) children out the door for their glorious day of Halloween Fun!J.L
