How was your Halloween weekend? Ours was jam-packed full of festive festivities: finishing the fish/fishbowl/fish store employee IDs for Brooke, Alyssa, me, and Greg, respectively; making orange-tinted Rice Crispy holiday figurines like they do on the television commercial; playing in the SNOW?!; carving pumpkins; roasting pumpkin seeds; having a Halloween dinner fiesta complete with Mexican food (Dia de los Muertes), Halloween tunes, Halloween plates, and Halloween sprinkles for our applesauce; and of course, trick-or-treating.
We were making memories, my friends. Mostly good ones...but a few crazy, frantic ones mixed in to be sure.
As I type this, both kids are taking naps (shocking! rare! fantastic!!), clearly hung over from our busy schedule of memory-making and from trick-or-treating gluttony.
How were your memories? What was your ratio of good:bad? Hope it was happy overall :-)
(That last line should be my motto for motherhood/life in general...Stop expecting things to be perfect/trying to make things perfect/trying to be perfect, and just shoot for "happy overall.")
2 days before halloween... it snowed by us. 22 inches of the hellish white fluff fell.
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Your kids look adorable, I love how the correlated costumes!
Mine was happy overall too ... cooked a turkey ... a big deal for a little Australian girl (we don't have Thanksgiving ... that's right, no pilgrims or Indians ... we had convicts and Aboriginies). My turkey was organic and delicious, and even though my husband couldn't quite wrap his mind around my combo mashed sweet and regular potatoes, we had an overall nice Thanksgiving dinner. And that was good enough for me. I've learnt to settle for good enough, happy overall ... mostly because the alternative just isn't possible, it's just a pipe dream perpetuated by the likes of June Cleaver (wait ... who is the modern day equivalent?)
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