I have to say that Halloween is my least favorite holiday. Hate it, can't stand it, its only redeeming factor is the candy. I eat my own because I buy the best stuff. Since my kids were little it has always been a battle.
Two weeks before Halloween.
Me: "What do you want to be for Halloween?"
Them: "I don't know?"
Me: "How about this, or that, or maybe this?"
Them: "No, I don't want to be any of those things."
Me: "You better decide because the costume parade at school is in two day."
Them the night before: I want to be a little Mermaid and I want to to make a costume just like Jenn's mom made for her."
Me: "I can't make a costume in one day. You're going to have to be something here. Like a dead soccer player, or a zombie cheerleader."
Them: "Noooooo, I don't want to be that. Let's go buy a costume."
Me: "There aren't any good ones left because you waited too long."
We run all over town trying to find what I knew wouldn't be there anyway.
Them: "I don't want to be a fifties girl."
Me: "but I just spent a fortune on the skirt."
Them: "I'm just going to be a dead cheerleader."
Me: "I hate Halloween."
If it weren't for the candy, I'd cancel Halloween all together.
4 years ago
Not to mention my little kids get terrified and start having nightmares too...
ReplyDeleteI don't have that problem anymore. And Logan decides on November first what his costume will be for the next year!!!
ReplyDeleteHang in there.
And with all those kids, I can see your point.
ReplyDeleteMy kids recall having lame costumes. We were poor--very poor.
They laugh about it now.
Halloween hurts for other reasons.
Hugs and hang in.