the delights of a saturday!
alrighty, we had a family party last night with Lance's family! the standard family Halloween party with dinner, October birthdays and games with a trick or treat alley , grown ups go in bedrooms and wait for kids to knock on the doors and we give them candy. yay! including costumes! so we had a busy evening! but we farmed out Pierce to my mom since he has a runny nose and the runs yesterday. and my sister in laws with newborns were coming. i was gonna stay home with him but my mom happened to call just after i had been bitching to lance about missing yet another family party for having a sick kid. love my mom. i think she was prompted to call. and offer. we weren't caller her because it seems like the last few times we have seen her she has been babysitting which i just don't love to ask her to do. she isn't a fan of babysitting, but loves my kids. so i don't take advantage. anyway the party was fine but two other sister in laws weren't there either. which i was bummed about there are 3 boys and 2 girls in lance's family and i was missing my other in laws. and their kids too. they too were ill and one only had a fever of 99 seriously it could be anything from an ear infection to a new tooth. but she stayed home, sparing the new babies germs. yeah. so we got to my mom around 9:3o to get Pierce. t was nice not having to worry about another kid in a costume and to feed and watch but i was bummer he wasn't there for the putting on of the costume. not tons of opportunity for babies to sport the costume. oh well.
i woke up this morning to popcorn all over my floor. one of the activities was to do the monster hand with the candy corn nails and the popcorn filled hands. so some swift child opened more that one and it was spread all over my floor. that had remained relatively clean after the mopping the other day. ok i give up! while i love the thought of Halloween costumes and parties every year i find myself really bah humbug about the mess and expense that goes with both. the cost of dressing 6 kids on costumes isn't small and i only bought some of the costumes. and then we go to parties stressed to be dressed and get there, then we come home with tons of stuff and the candy and prizes litter my house. wrappers everywhere. or pieces of candy and costumes stuff, and today popcorn. i was planning on going to boo at the zoo today but i found the popcorn first thing. and then candy wrappers around. and boo at the zoo brings more crap i don't want littering my house with more of it. so today instead we are cleaning again. the never ending battle. continues! yay! ( said in the most sarcastic tone ever thinking the mess that Wednesday will bring.) YAAAAAAAAY!
my point? sometimes i think the Jehovah Witnesses have it right with no holidays. while i love holiday candy for me i don't for my kids. and while i love to shop for costumes i hate to pay the price. and this theme may come up often in the coming holiday season.
I think it wouldn't be an issue if money wasn't tight but since it is. it kind of becomes a burden to do all the fun holiday stuff. and while i think i love it . i don't. or i do and then i hate it .
anyone? feel the same way? is it all the kids? is it the family events that cause the stress? is it the expense? is it the general disarray of my life that i can't seem to get a grip on that makes these things harder?
thoughts? reflections? help me out here.
9 comments:
I'm with you on the Halloween Humbug. I just don't love it like I used to.
CHRISTMAS, however, I love like a crazywoman! I am, like you, feeling the stress of the expense creeping up on me. I love so much to do the fundamentals of the Christmas Season, but the Santa Clause thing this year is giving ME "the diarrheas," as my SIL puts it.
don't love the family stuff we're expected to attend for all the holidays ... one HUGE perk of attending dental school out of state. i tried to keep costs for costumes at a min. this year and i'm not feeling so excited about buying b-day gifts for molly this week. she has too many books & toys already. I think i might just get her some stuff to help get her ready for winter ... stuff i have to buy anyways ... long sleeve shirts, winter coat, etc. i'm sure i'd have more fun if I had a bigger house to keep all the stuff that I buy and i need $$ to buy the stuff.
i agree about some holiday stuff..too expensive & messy! i love celebrating everyone's bday in our families (ben's family is way bigger than mine). But it gets so expensive trying to get a little present for each kid & grown up. Now Christmas is coming. I love the holiday, but have a hard time trying to pick presents & then pay for them. I want my kids to have presents (we usually only do one from us & one from santa) but i get sick of them leaving everything around the house & it getting broken. it takes some of the fun out of the planning. what to do what to do? i dunno.
I would feel probably the same way if I was lucky enough to have more kids, but since I only have two, I can't really compare. I'm liking that Boo will be wearing some of T-dog's costumes for upcoming Halloweens. Two for the price of one - yay! But your family parties sound fun. I really wish my boys' cousins were in AZ instead of UT. That part makes me sad with holidays and b-days. You're lucky you have that. Even though it creates more stress and mess.
I usually love Halloween but for some reason I'm kinda feeling the same way!
It can be stressful. I am starting to stress, and oh the mess of finding wrappers everywhere!! It already is driving my nuts! I am being very anal about it this last week so I am sure next week may drive me to the looney bin! I can't imagine doing it for 6 kids! Then comes Christmas ugh, the expense of that is already killing me. Good luck on Wed! I think we all will need it!
I think it is a little of everything, family obligations, parties, kids, expense. It all can be stressful. I hear you on Halloween. Not a big fan. I hate the candy wrapers everywhere. OH so not looking forward to that.
I love Christmas but this year is the first year that we are near family. So I'm kinda starting to not like it. We just get come here, come here. NO!!!! I want to be at my own house doing my own thing. No go anywhere. It wouldn't be bad but both sides keep asking, like the answere is going to change.
Good luck with it all. I know i'll need it.
My husband is a FREAK about Halloween, but this year he has to work so he's bummed. Costumes are expensive and the candy wrappers drive me nuts. And then there's the cavity worry. Last night my kids fell asleep in a pile of candy wrappers from the ward party without brushing their teeth. I'm such a good mom.
Christmas is my favorite though. I am a little kid when it comes to Christmas and would rather eat beans and rice all month than not buy presents. I like giving presents more than getting presents by a long shot. The day after Thanksgiving sales make me all tingly just thinking about them, and I start making things for people months in advance! Maybe I need a Christmas intervention...
Yeah I agree that the costume thing was sO much fUn when I had one or two kids...but now that I have four...I just can't get into it, and I especially have a hard time buying the baby her costume cause I know I won't get another use out of it...so that bums me out! That is why I LoVe Savers and anywhere that has cute ones for so much cheaper in price!
As for the candy thing...when we were kids my mom would give us "candy time" she would give us our candy and give us a set amount of time to go through it and eat whatever...then she would take it away and put it up until the next candy time...that way we were not eating it all day and leaving wrappers everywhere or all that fun stuff! So I have done the same thing with my kids and I love it! IT works great for us! OR you could always throw handfulls away when they arent looking...she did that too! :) I never could ever figure out where all my candy was going... :)
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