Yup here that holiday is again. My most un favorite one. This
year actually doesn’t bother me at all as we are not celebrating it!
Beauty is in England (another post on this tomorrow as
deserves its own space!), one son is not celebrating Halloween I don’t think,
and the other son is pretending he is not celebrating Halloween but he is trick
or treating I think (but pretending not to).
We are not giving candy at our house.
We were invited to an adult party and almost attended-got
costumes and everything and last minute something intervened in life making it
so that we could not attend. We were not into the Halloween part but we were
sad to miss the party with all our buddies as like the party part!. That part
would have been super fun. And we would not have felt like the losers we truly
are by ourselves on Halloween.
Ba humbug. I know.
But we got into the spirit last night as had an adult dinner
with our wonderful buddies who have three adorable children. Was so fun sitting
there and listening to them before they went to bed for the evening talk about
candy and costumes and their excitment. I ADORE these three children and they
feel like nieces and nephews to us-our families are so totally engrained. After
they went to bed we had Thai food and fortune cookies and just had the best talks
ever, had some heated debates about education, laughed a ton, planned a big
future trip together and basically indulged in a great evening. It ended by me
literally falling out the door! (A story for another blog)
I am glad I got to enjoy pre-Halloween through their kids
and leave them all to their costumes and makeup and candies today. Might sound
silly to say but last night might have been one of the top five nights of my
life. Was so simple and easy and nothing special really-but special in every
way actually. The beautiful children so close to us, the friends that the
dynamic between the four of us is so rare and cherished I thin for for people
to get along so well sharing all our lives and joys and challenges together. Laughing,
screaming a bit. Helping each other through this thing called Life. It’s what
my heart has always wanted that enormous pleasure of sharing our daily lives with
people we love in such a constant and continuous way. It really feels like
forever. And forever is what I aim for. So much love there and respect. So balanced
between their lives and our lives. A place for everyone. And all our combined
children; in some ways feels like they all belong to all of us.
A village. Like it should be.
Hubby and I went today Harvey’s for a well-deserved burger today
(been really both careful with food for weeks now) and at the cash there was huge
pot of treats. We each took one ad then were about to grab a second and the
cashier said “one per client pls” so so so embarrassing! Felt so cheap! So we did what any self-respecting adult would do
and?
Wait until she turned her back and took two more!!!! Ha-ha
we are so wicked!!!
Tonight enjoying a very peaceful quiet night a deux in front
of the fire. Odd, strange, a bit lonely and a bit indulgent. Perfect actually.
Tomorrow night I have a business dinner with my Swiss colleague
and co-author (and friend!) at a hotel and Hubby and the boys will chow down on
some serious pad Thai with the boys will
make from .scratch. One of those boys needs some serious TLC these days-being a
teen can so suck. But he is handling is all so well but still hard. And beautiful
girls are falling at his feet of courseJ
So to all those adults out there who love Halloween…long
live diversity! Enjoy it! Don’t scare yourselves too much! And to all those who
don’t…do what you love to do.
