Scary how age changes things.

I was never a huge fan of Halloween. Well I should say I wasn't a fan because there were things I did like about it. When I was younger I liked trick or treating, but was always a bit scared about costume day at school. I always thought I would show up to school dressed in a costume and it would be the wrong day. Luckily for me that never happened. One of my favorite things about Halloween was handing out candy. I like to scare some of the kids and just see how cute the little kids were in their costumes.


Once I had kids, Halloween became more fun. I couldn't wait to help them decide what they were going to be. I had fun making some of the costumes they wore. One Halloween I was so excited for Samantha to be a Cinderella. I bought her the cutest costume ever. On Halloween she saw TJ in his super hero costume and wanted to be Superman. I fought her for the longest time and finally gave in and put her in TJ's superman costume from the year before. I am pretty sure I was so devastated I didn't even take pictures that year, I will have to look. The Cinderella dress became dress up clothes for another day.


Now my kids are older and the wind is now out of my Halloween fun. They want to plan their own costumes. I don't even think about the pumpkin patch anymore. I am realizing I am at the point in my life where holidays are changing because I have no little kids in my house anymore. I am hoping teenage holidays are just as fun but just different. Wyatt did ask me if we were going to carve pumpkins this year and I told him of course. I am so glad he still wants to do it. I think he is the caboose of the kids and I forget that he still wants to do the kid stuff that the rest of us have graduated from. I can't even find that many Halloween pictures of him. I am going back to look through piles of photos because I am sure we dressed him up. I did find this one of him when he was 2.

Another thing about Halloween that makes things different is that here in Arizona the schools here do not have field trips to the pumpkin patch. I liked those field trips, it just got you in the spirit of Halloween. I think next year I am going to plant pumpkins and make my very own pumpkin patch. Yep that is what I am going to do.

One more week and I can start thinking of Christmas.