So, we did NOT celebrate Halloween. We have every year until now...but I just do not like the holiday. I mean, why go out into the cold, dressed in creepy costumes, just to collect sugar from our neighbors? Then, while everyone is feeling screamy, I have to somehow convince the kids that they really don't want that candy...uhhh...not a good idea. So this year, I never even mentioned it, and no one knew the difference, until we had a trick-or-treater come to our house. That kind of spoiled it...but then I told the kids about the Harvest Festival that we would be attending the next weekend and they were allright with not getting any candy. At the festival we made applesauce, apple cider, some soft pretzels, painted pumpkins, listened to stories being told, and had some homemade butter on cornbread. Yay!! No candy at all this year. I think we'll make that a tradition.
Here's Garrison and Aila after a good night's sleep, just having fun with each other. They really get along well. She turned 2 and he turned 8 this last month. So now all the kids are even...2, 4, 6, and 8.
This was Garrison's Birthday. We went down the road to Sand Creek Ponds. It was really beautiful with the changing leaves.
This is just a picture of some baked oatmeal I was making, but I was amazed at the difference between the 2 store bought eggs and our last 2 eggs from our own chickens. Can you guess which is which?
And this is my 4 year old Terra really concentrating on her painting.
And this is the very last picture I have of when our garden was green this year. Now it is covered in snow.
I love the way kids say things! We've got a little journal going of funny things they have said and Sierra loves to hear funny things she said when she was younger. Plus it is so much fun to remember and laugh about it again and again. I would guess the store-bought eggs are the yellow ones and your chickens laid the more orange colored ones, right? I wish we could do what you did for Halloween. What a great idea to not even mention it! We couldn't do that though, with the kids in school. It's too bad a trick-or-treater spoiled it for you, though.
ReplyDeleteHi Somerli. I will follow your blog. Anyway, about the Halloween - we don't do it much either b/c it's not a Dutch holiday. But we have been celebrating it at church the last few years. We do a pinata to distribute the candy. Next year (I know everything b/c i head the activities committee in our ward) we are not doing Halloween and we are doing a harvest festival as well -- i'm very excited for that and I think everyone else is too. I like the idea of painting pumpkins as well. Thanks for your post. And yes, kids do say the darndest things (especially when they speak two languages)
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