Happy Halloweener....

I'm not big on holidays. I don't buy decorations and have stashes of tubs in my garage- each one labeled with a different holiday..... Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas - on and on it goes. It seems pointless to me. Almost like making your bed every morning. Wait a minute.....except, I do make my bed every morning! I don't understand myself! I think holiday rituals, especially the decorations, are like some people say making your bed is each morning- "Why bother, you are just going to mess it up again that very night!" Now I don't understand my logic with holidays (if any) because the bed logic -that actually does make sense to me, but I choose otherwise because I personally like the way our bed looks made up and the way it feels when I get into the made bed vs. the unmade. However, when it comes to holiday decorations I feel, "why bother, you are just going to have to put up and take down all over again next year. It's relentless! Now I must add that I do have one tub in my garage labeled "Christmas." It's the only one, and at that, I feel is extreme.....for me! In Reed and I's nearly seven years together I have only "put up" those Christmas decorations, twice- and it's sweet bliss I tell you! I tend to put pressure on myself too. Like, everyone else is doing that, and so should I. So I'll give it a try, but in the end I find no feeling to it, no real value. I want what's more important in this life. If God wants me to be concerned with those things in life that really matter, than why the little pumpkins that you'll have to cut open, make a huge mess, place a candle in, but end up throwing it away. Pointless......is it? On the other hand, I have made a memory, etched a piece of time spent together with my child. Seeing Him smile and enjoy, well that's what's important to God, just as it is important to me. So I try to not put so much pressure on myself. We did not get to carve pumpkins this year, like we did last year. And that's OK. Gwenn did not dress up at all for Halloween, and that's OK too. We did have a great time with our Friends and all the beautiful children we have brought into this world. The best part of my day was seeing Christopher have such a blast at Rob and Beth's house - He and Kaitlyn were the designated,"candy givers!" He enjoyed that so much! And I enjoyed that too. So did God. The beauty of it is, I did not even have to waste any time putting up one decoration to witness this Eternal Joy!

Total side note, in church today Christopher overheard Paster Gary say, "The Lords Supper." He turned to me with his crinkled nose and said, "Sucker?"


Today:
Christopher what do you want Mama to dress up as?
"A Dancer."
How about Daddy?
"Um, uh (looks around the room for something.......there got it!) A plant!"
What about Gwennie pie?
"A fancy dancer!"
How about you, what do you want to dress up like?
"A dinosaur!"
Big surprise!

I did not plan for Gwenn at all. She just wore her pretty skirt, which is what made Christopher call her a, "fancy dancer."

Here's the little dinosaur now. At one point I asked Christopher to move his hands and he corrected, "my claws!"