Remind me again why we do this?
On October 31st I stuffed my baby girl into a hand-me-down teddybear costume, tracked down red hair ribbon for my daughter, stuck pipe cleaners in her hair, fed my family pizza, and then safety pinned my sons into ghost costumes. All this taking at least an hour-and-a-half. Not to mention the time and effort it took me and my friend to make my daughters costume in the first place, and the time invested in making my own puffy paint t-shirt so that people would know who my daughter even was! All of this was taking way too much time and effort. For what? So my kids can beg for candy?
Come to think of it, is saying trick or treat really a question or a threat? My two year olds motto is; forget even saying it at all. She just holds her hand straight out, demanding candy.
After running around the neighborhood trying to keep up with my kids, and loosing my voice from shouting at them to wait for their sister, I drag into the house to be bombarded with the idea of them eating more sugar. Just what they need before bedtime! Of course they have to sort the candy and then carfully weigh their options as to which candy they are going to eat first. Then after much coaxing, bribing and threatening they finally go to bed and I colapse into the couch and ask my husband to please remind me why we do this? And then he hands me a Reeses’ Peanutbutter cup, and I remember.
So from now on I’m not going to wish parents a Happy Halloween, I’m going to wish them a Happy Week After Halloween! The week when all parents are rewarded, for the time and effort they put into making Halloween memories, with each piece of candy they eat.
Happy Week After Halloween!
I read that 98% of parents eat at least one peice of their kids Halloween candy. That means 2% of parents are liers.
Your kids are too cute! I love your blog. You are so creative and entertaining. I am so glad you have one so I can keep up with what’s going on with ya’ll!