Okay, so it's been a little while since I've posted a blog on here. To those of you who are my faithful blog checkers, I love you and appreciate you. I recognize that by not posting more regularly, I run the risk of losing your loyalty. Keep checking!
I confess that lately I've been cheating my Threeunder3 blog with another blog that I started to journal my feelings and emotions about a particular issue that is going on right now. If only you knew how many words I've hammered out on my pseudo blog. I've found it quite therapeutic to keep a pseudo blog. What i mean by that is just that I'm not publishing my posts, but rather keeping them saved as drafts. I just don't feel its the right time to be laying myself out there that raw for all to see. Perhaps, another time, just not now.
So, while I've been gone, Halloween came and went. A hallmark holiday for sure! Halloween is fun though. We have wrestled with whether or not it is appropriate to "celebrate" Halloween as Christians being that it is most notebly associated with witches, ghosts and a lot of evil stuff. But the reality is that it is just like any other day, but this one can be set aside for a little make believe. We just feel it's important to emphasize the make believe aspect of it for our children and NOT get all caught up in the scary, frightful parts of it. Our kids will surely get enough of that as they grow up. Just like any other "holiday" this one gets commercialized to the hilt!
This year Andrew was Sully from Monster's Inc. (the Disney movie) and Anna was a cute gray elephant... quite fitting for the upcoming election as one of the houses that we patroned for candy pointed out. Had we thought of it before, we would have made a sign to hang around her neck that said, "Vote Republican." We thought too late. Alissa was just a cute baby in a jump suit that said, "I take after my mummy!" She was very cute.
The trick or treat experience was our first ever with the kids. We invited our baby sitter, Jenny over to come with us. We dragged the kids around in the wagon and let them knock on people's doors to get candy. Of course as predicted, all they wanted was to eat the candy as soon as it was received. Well, anyway, it turned out to be a fun time. We hit about 10 houses and got more candy than we need that's for sure!
Laying down the rules for candy eating is nearly impossible. It's more like telling a joke. For some of the candy, we are experimenting for the first time. For example, a blowpop... Andrew just finished his first one ever, but he's not quite sure what to do with the gum in the middle and I'm pretty sure that he swallowed some of it. Same with a tootsie roll pop, only this time eating the center is the right idea. I never considered how confusing candy could be.
So, that's the latest. Well, a little of the latest anyway.
