Halloween
http://www.graphicsfairy.com/ A successful trip to Michaels this weekend. I promised the monkeys we’d “look” at the Halloween decorations. Ever since that cursed Halloween costume catalogue arrived it’s been nothing but Halloween talk, especially from Little Man. Actually, that’s not true. He’s been talking about Santa, a lot. He actually drew a picture of our house with Santa on the roof–this is a picture for Santa. He even insisted I get a Christmas ribbon out so he could wrap it around the picture. Little Man thought it’d be nice to give Santa something because he’s always giving us stuff. To interrupt my own story I have to say that I was…
Halloween already?
http://www.thegraphicsfairy.com/ My kids love Halloween–so do I. I’m not sure where they get their need and desire to decorate for every Tom, Dick and Harry holiday and celebration but in some ways it’s kind of cool. I grew up in a home where we didn’t really decorate for the holidays. In fact, Christmas was really the only holiday we did up and my mom (the Shinto Buddhist) was more excited than my dad (of the very German & Lutheran upbringing). I like decorations and simultaneously dislike them. We have a friend who spends weeks setting up for Christmas and that sounds like a nightmare to me. She actually has…
