This week we weren't given a topic to write about. Instead, we were instructed to free-write for fifteen minutes and post our thoughts--warts and all.
All is quiet here at home...the kids are driving me crazy...or rather, they were driving me crazy earlier. School vacations don't sit well with me. I hate the upheaval of my routine and the utter chaos they bring to my days. Simultaneously, I look forward to seeing them and spending time with them. It's a neverending circle, I suppose. Christmas was nice. I'm trying really hard not to freak out over the fact that it's only been two days and most of their toys and/or pieces of toys can not be located. Trying not to bug out over the fact that I've already stepped on eleventy-seven pieces of rock hard play-doh and random lego blocks. Nathan has refused to remove his new fleece, cammo jammie pants...he says they are the most comfortable thing he's ever worn. I suppose I should fight him for them and put them in the wash....eh...what's one more day when you're on vacation? Bear seems to love all of his stuff...he was playing a live action Angry Birds game with the plushie birds he received. He seems most enamored with a pig puppet that I stuck in his stocking that I had bought at the dollar store. I wrote "tea cup pig" on it's chest with a sharpie. It's an inside joke between us that stems from an episode of 'How I Met Your Mother'. Addy has been hounding everyone to play Apples to Apples and Beyblades with her. Mathias told me he didn't like any of his gifts. But that's just because he got caught trying to steal Bear's bionicles. Everyone seems happy and I'm glad. I really enjoyed getting together with family on Christmas Eve. And my mom, for the first time in the history of ever, got me a gift that not only will I enjoy and find useful...it was a gift that showed she was actually thinking of ME. That never happens. It might have only been a Sephora gift card but it meant the world to me and actually made me tear up a little. So now Christmas is over and we can get back to normal. I am very much looking forward to normal. Normal is comforting and calm. Peaceful. And Happy. And the kids just started arguing again...a mom's work is never done.
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Halloween Magic--BFF 128
I've never written for this group before. But when I saw that the topic was HALLOWEEN, how could I not?
You see.......in our household there are really only two holidays. Jeff's holiday. And mine.
We celebrate the other ones, but it's more out of duty for the children. We make a fuss about those because we have to. But no other holidays get quite the fanfare around here that our favorites do.
Jeff is a Christmas nut. Who doesn't love Christmas? Well...I don't know anyone who gets into Christmas quite like Jeff. But that's a blog for a couple months from now!
My holiday is Halloween. I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!! It is my absolute favorite holiday. Usually, by the time both mine and Addy's birthdays have rolled around, outside our apartment is fully decorated for the occasion (and both of us celebrated our birthdays this week! This year, I've been slacking some). The kids and I start talking about their costumes for next year on November first! I love it more than Christmas and all of our other lackluster-ly celebrated holidays combined.
Jeff doesn't understand this. Well....by now he might...but he still pretends that he doesn't.
In Jeff's world...Christmas is the only holiday that matters.
To me, Halloween is a celebration of everything that I love about fall. The crisp, cool autumn air...the leaves changing...apple picking....pumpkin picking...apple cider....the rustle of the leaves when little kids are running through them....the smell of decaying leaves....carving a jack-o-lantern and roasting the seeds.
It's weeks of wonderful things that come to a climax on Halloween Night.
I love watching all the little kids and seeing what their costumes are. Sure, some are store bought these days...but still adorable. And I always manage to see some costumes that are truly creative and inventive. Last year I saw someone dressed as a Dunkin Donuts (yes, the whole store!) and their friend accompanied them--as a police officer! Priceless.
And...I am a sucker for all things creepy. Bring on the vampires and witches. The mummies and ghosts! Cobwebs and cauldrons and potions--oh my!
But it's more than that.
The world is not the same as when I was a little girl. Most of us don't even know our neighbors by name. We suspiciously peek our our windows or peepholes before answering the door. We are enclosed in our own little worlds--usually only venturing out of them through our keyboards nowadays.
Not on Halloween.
On Halloween...our neighbors will open their doors to each other. They say hello. We acknowledge one another's existence--if only for a few seconds. The streets are alive with people. For that small fraction of time, we get to be transported back to a time that is quite different from the one we live in now.
And THAT, is a beautiful thing.
You see.......in our household there are really only two holidays. Jeff's holiday. And mine.
We celebrate the other ones, but it's more out of duty for the children. We make a fuss about those because we have to. But no other holidays get quite the fanfare around here that our favorites do.
Jeff is a Christmas nut. Who doesn't love Christmas? Well...I don't know anyone who gets into Christmas quite like Jeff. But that's a blog for a couple months from now!
My holiday is Halloween. I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!! It is my absolute favorite holiday. Usually, by the time both mine and Addy's birthdays have rolled around, outside our apartment is fully decorated for the occasion (and both of us celebrated our birthdays this week! This year, I've been slacking some). The kids and I start talking about their costumes for next year on November first! I love it more than Christmas and all of our other lackluster-ly celebrated holidays combined.
Jeff doesn't understand this. Well....by now he might...but he still pretends that he doesn't.
In Jeff's world...Christmas is the only holiday that matters.
To me, Halloween is a celebration of everything that I love about fall. The crisp, cool autumn air...the leaves changing...apple picking....pumpkin picking...apple cider....the rustle of the leaves when little kids are running through them....the smell of decaying leaves....carving a jack-o-lantern and roasting the seeds.
It's weeks of wonderful things that come to a climax on Halloween Night.
I love watching all the little kids and seeing what their costumes are. Sure, some are store bought these days...but still adorable. And I always manage to see some costumes that are truly creative and inventive. Last year I saw someone dressed as a Dunkin Donuts (yes, the whole store!) and their friend accompanied them--as a police officer! Priceless.
And...I am a sucker for all things creepy. Bring on the vampires and witches. The mummies and ghosts! Cobwebs and cauldrons and potions--oh my!
But it's more than that.
The world is not the same as when I was a little girl. Most of us don't even know our neighbors by name. We suspiciously peek our our windows or peepholes before answering the door. We are enclosed in our own little worlds--usually only venturing out of them through our keyboards nowadays.
Not on Halloween.
On Halloween...our neighbors will open their doors to each other. They say hello. We acknowledge one another's existence--if only for a few seconds. The streets are alive with people. For that small fraction of time, we get to be transported back to a time that is quite different from the one we live in now.
And THAT, is a beautiful thing.
Happy Almost Halloween!
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