Missing My Kids

Everyone with kids are posting their babies in costume on Social Media, and I'm over here all sad. It's my first real holiday without mine. Halloween with my kids, especially my youngest, was a big deal for me. Happy Halloween to all of you. 🙂 Enjoy these moments. 🎃👻🎃👻

Also, some kids are extremely shy or scared. My mom used to dress me in what she thought was cute and I'd feel very self-conscious. Then, we would walk passed people dressed as demons, vampires and zombies and I'd be extremely frightened because I had an older brother who tormented me by scaring me all the time. 

I remember taking my kids trick-or-treating and a guy passing out candy, asked a little Vietnamese boy where his costume was. The kid shrugged and the guy said , "No costume, no candy." 

We don't know what financial issues the kid's parents had, or if there is a cultural issue (recent immigrants who are allowing their child to participate in a holiday they don't celebrate in their native country). 

If you are practicing a holiday for the kids...celebrate for ALL the kids.

Autumn is in the Air

This time of year for me... Scary and creepy things. It's the thrill of knowing it won't hurt me. I remember reading the psychology of it and that's why roller coasters, sky diving, and scary movies are fun for people. It's really not about Halloween for me so much as it is the season. It's about walking passed creepy things in the store and the colors of fall that I love. It's the smell of cinnamon, pumpkin spice, caramel, and warm vanilla. Its the scent of rain at the end of October. It's the joy in others celebrating holidays, how happy children are. It's the color of the earth changing. It's the acceptance of the color orange! It's my birthday. It's warm blankets and cool pillows. This is what I love of about Autumn. Now if I could remember to record the horror flicks...

Kids Are Too Old

I hate that my children are getting too old for Halloween. Kalib just stays on the computer in our dark house. Sienna, probably the same, if she's not trying to hit up some neighborhood house party, and Christopher is not as enthusiastic. I want to adopt a kid so bad...

— feeling sad they are all big and Mike doesn't want anymore.

Hi!

 

Happy Pumpkin Month! 

Halloween 2012

 

Chris and his loot

I took Christopher Trick-or-Treating.  I always take hi around the neighborhood.  I'm glad most of the neighborhood participates in passing out candy.  It makes it easier on us.  We don't have to walk as far!

When I was a kid, I remember having to walk long distances sometimes until my plastic mask was too hot for my face, and I was wearing it on my head instead, and my feet would hurt.

Chris dressed up as a pirate and got a lot of loot!  

Fountain Valley Pumpkin Patch

 

At the Fountain Valley pumpkin patch with my son Christopher and his dad, Mike.

Christopher is the youngest so we are making the best of the last moments of his young childhood.