Post Hallowe’en Catch-Up: Wherein I Don’t Do It All & That’s Okay.
Yea, I know I’m well past good timing on this post. No matter. I had all these grand plans for Hallowe’en. Given that I am a huge fan of the occasion. Back in the day, y’know – when I had more time for side-line crafty affairs, I would make my own costume. Of more recent years, I would craft up mine and Last Haloween I even managed to make mine and the BSM’s as well as the WSL’s .
Not so much this year. Although I desperately wanted to. And felt guilt about not doing it. Why is that? Why do we moms feel the need, (well not all moms I suppose, but many) – feel like we have to live up to some glorified Martha-Stewart-dom? Perhaps it was more a feeling like I’ve been slighted. Slighted by myself and the crazy schedule/calendar that I make for myself. Slighted because such things as making Hallowe’en costumes, are things that I truly want to do. Things that bring me great pleasure.
So. Now that I’ve gotten that all sorted out – I let the young lad pick out his own costume (Firefighter), and I grabbed the least cheap looking bunting bag costume for Lil’ Abner that I could find last minute. Hot pepper. No matter what their costumes were or will be in the future, it will be based on their own desires and imagination – and they will be ridiculously cute. No matter what.
And then they shall be high on sugar. Not too much sugar, but enough (especially if Trick-or-Treating for the fist time as was Wyndham’s case this year), to entertain us parental units and maybe drive us a little bit nuts.
Oh yea. The costumes I thought I was going to make? The Social Media family. Me as the Hootsuite owl, the BSM as Facebook, the WSL as an iPhone and Abigail as the Twitter bird. I know. Right? Maybe next year. Phhht!