I love my gang.
Today, I started crying as I took a picture of Drew during the costume parade at the elementary school.
The custom here in Tully is that the Seniors dress-up and march in the elementary school costume parade. Drew and his friends were lucky charms.
On the way out, I held up the parade for 20 seconds while I snapped a few pictures. When Todd mentioned that I was holding up the line, I told him this was the last Halloween EVER that I was ever going to take his picture at.
Oh man, that just stabbed my heart.
Today was hectic and loaded with mom-guilt for me. For 20 years I have really celebrated these dumb holidays and this year it was a bit thrown together. No themed Halloween lunch (like I've done in years past). No beef stew with mashed potato ghost and pea eyes.
Leah wanted to be a wizard from Hogwarts. She ended up being pretty happy with her black ninja/the if costume even if she told me it "wasn't a real costume."
I had cute accessories for all my little bandits. But, the masks were annoying, the hats were SO ITCHY, the tool belt was too big, and the dollar signs were peeling off the money bags. Even Todd complained about wearing a black hat as we walked around the neighborhood.
Honestly, this was a really nice Halloween. We only went trick or treating to one nearby neighborhood, our two closest neighbors, and their piano teacher.
The kids really were SO exited tonight. And, that's why we do what we do,
I am tired. Good night.
I understand the mom-guilt . . . I have it often . . . but it's easy to see from the outside that it is entirely unnecessary.
ReplyDeleteMy kids have NEVER had mashed potato ghosts with pea eyes, and they're fine. :)