I'll tell you all now - our family "does" Halloween in a limited capacity. My kids wear costumes, they trick-or-treat. We have dinner with our family at my sister's house, we eat candy out the wazoo. Nothing scary is allowed: no ghosts, no witches, no monsters, no blood, no gore. We are princesses and ladybugs (and on her first H'ween, my 2nd child was Humpty Dumpty...I mean, c'mon - an EGG costume for an EGG kid?! Perfect!). I know people who consider that "compromising". I don't and since it doesn't bother my conscience, we do it. What does bother me is that I feel judged by others for doing it. Maybe it's just me and my paranoia (which runs rampant, BTW). Eh, I'll get over it. I know a select few others who do the same as we do.
We have a
jack-o-lantern on our front porch - which Brad did an excellent job of carving - what do you think...of course it's a castle because we have a house full of prissy little girl Princesses. And thanks to the wet weather we've had AND Katherine throwing dirt into it...it is quickly turning into a science experiment/penicillin factory. ;)Oh good grief, commercial on TV for an Ariel Magical Talking Kitchen. BAH! We HAVE a talking kitchen. We're not getting Dora's Talking Kitchen and we ARE NOT getting Ariel's Talking Kitchen. We. Have. A. Talking. Kitchen. ARRRRRRRRRRGH!
2 comments:
Can't comment on the Christian judgement aspect, since that's never been something I've dealt with, but your version sounds like good harmless fun to me. Cute pumpkin! ROTFL about the kitchen. Kaylee saw that ad this morning too and immediately proclaimed that she wanted one, even though we already have a talking kitchen (of the more generic non-character variety) as well.
Show me in the Bible where it says we can't let our kids dress up, eat sugar, and just be a kid?? Hey, at least it gives my boys a good excuse to play dress-up. Girls get to do it whenever they like. I'd reconsider trick or treating if I found, "thou shalt not trick or treat" somewhere in there! :)
That pumpkin ROCKS girl, and the girls look SO precious! I've got to get my pics up soon....hopefully tomorrow.
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