We started out in the morning by going to the elementary school for the Halloween parade. I love seeing all of the kids in their costumes. This year we saw a lot of Dorothy's, Vampires, dead people (brides, cheerleaders, zombies), Mario's, and we even saw John McCain and Sarah Palin. Wow, and this close to the election! After the parade I got to help in Jared's class party. I love helping in holiday parties. The kids played games and decorated cupcakes and had snacks. I was the most popular mom there. I'm pretty sure that it was me, but it might have been the cupcakes and m&m's at my table.
Thanks to Tib I found this cute idea on her blog and when the room mom called to see if I had an idea for treats the kids could make, I did!
Miquelle had the day off school so Trevor and I were able to go out to lunch. It was BLISS. We went to Mimi's cafe and it was delicious as usual.
In the afternoon we carved pumpkins. It was so fun. I love pulling pumpkin guts out. The best part was that it was so nice and warm outside that we were able to carve our pumpkins out on the front porch so I wasn't stressed about the mess. Gabe said at one point, "this is so fun, why have we never done this before?" I knew it had been awhile, but didn't realize it had been that long! (is it bad that we had twins three years ago and sometimes I still feel like we are "recovering" from it?) Our jack-o-lanterns turned out really cute. I didn't have any candles to put in them though, maybe I will remember that next year.
We had italian sausage soup and breadsticks for dinner. The kids devoured their dinner and it was nice to go out trick or treating with full bellies.
It was great to have a nice warm evening for trick or treating. At one point we felt just a couple of tiny raindrops and Gabe said, "this is the rainiest Halloween ever!" Cole and Cagney we totally enthralled with the whole process. "You mean all I have to do is look adorable, say "trick or treat" and people give me candy???" I came home a little early with them while the older kids stayed out with our neighbor. Once they were home it was time for candy sorting. (This was my favorite part of Halloween when I was a kid.)
I usually let my kids eat a bunch of candy on Halloween night. Then after that we put it up and they have a couple of things a day. What kind of candy mom are you? I just cannot let them eat all of the candy they want everyday. I just can't relinquish that much control. I know some mom's say "just have at it" and the candy is gone in a week (or a couple of days). I usually throw candy away in December. Hmmm, I do like the idea of getting it all over with in a shorter period of time though. What is worse, a ton of candy everyday for a few days, or a little bit of candy everyday for a much longer period of time??
3 comments:
The HUGE smiles on all the kids faces - says it all. They love having Mom around. I too feel silly when I think I'm still recovering from 'the baby' and she's 2 1/2. While it's not twins sometimes it feels like to personalities in one body. Ummm, I think there is a medical term for that!
What did you order at MIMIs? (let me live through you :)
When I was a kid, we just had our treats in a bag hanging on a hanger in our closets. We could eat them at our own discression. There was one year though, that my little brother (the one with the biggest sweet tooth.) stole and ate a lot of everyone else's candy after his was all gone. He was punished by not being able to go trick-or-treating the next year--amazingly enough my mom really stuck with the punishment 12 months later! (he took a LOT of candy, if you couldn't tell.)
Post a Comment