The best day of the year and I practically missed it. In the hustle and bustle of life, I did not devote the proper time & creativity required by this spooktacular holiday. The kids were without costumes, the mom had drained the candy supply, the dad was preoccupied packing boxes and all was not in order for Halloween. My last ditch efforts at a costume for G-bean had failed miserably. Some even made her cry. She was close to cancelling Halloween all together and was in jeopardy of never smiling again. Okay so that last part was a little dramatic, but she did threaten not to trick or treat. GASP! Fortunately, E was oblivious to the drama and had lower expectations of this haunting occasion. Her only demand..."More candy mom." Alas, had I ruined the best day of the year for my children?!
No! By some miracle, it all came together. We even managed to pull off our annual chili party the night of Halloween. We had a house full of family dressed as all walks of life eating off of paper goods and dining atop cardboard boxes. The dry ice was floating and the root beer was flowing. E was double-fisted all night with long neck root beer. I daresay that little lady bug was seeing spots and could not fly a straight line by the end of the night. As for our Rapunzel, she made a full recovery. The only thing that could have topped her delight was if Prince Charming were to show up and ask her to let her hair down. And then there's the parents, don't they looked haggard?! They were. We did not dress up...SHOCKER! If anything, we were dressed as survivors. Hopefully next year we will get our act together, so that we won't get voted off the island.
3 comments:
Tell G-bean I want to know if that's her real hair and also, when are you going to start looking pregnant? You look like a million bucks!
I love E with the bottle! I'm glad you found a costume for G-bean. She looks BEAUTIFUL! Did she love the long hair? I loved your post about telling her where babies come out. That's tricky, huh? Belle got TMI with that one when I was prego with Jonah! Good luck with the move. Thanks to your rock star husband for helping us out tonight.
Sounds to me like you did pretty well-considering the stress around you. i had all these expectations of abbers with wringlets in her hair from sponge rollers, and her beautiful fairy costume and well...let's say it didn't turn out that way. she looked kind of dorky but she thought she was "dorable" so that's all that matters!
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