It's November, Y'all

 

So, yeah. It was Halloween. Probably my least favorite holiday. Kids, of course, love it - and who wouldn't - you get to dress up and get tons of candy.

I don't like being scared, I don't like vampires and zombies and yards with models of decayed bodies climbing out of fake graves. I don't like hearing people scream, seeing fake blood and axes coming out of people's heads.

So I really don't like Halloween. My kids LOVE to dress up, though - and up there we have a gangster, a convict (with a sign that she created herself, and you can't see the handcuffs or ankle weight she made as well), a nerd and Princess Athena.

And I was corrected a bazillion times that Athena was a GODDESS and NOT a PRINCESS. Geez, Mom - get it right. Athena was the goddess of war and there was nothing princessy about her.

After about 30 minutes out there, my spectrum kiddo put her hands over her ears and said, "It's too loud out here. Too much noise and it's hurting my head and making me feel funny. I don't want to do this anymore." And so we didn't. We went home. And I was FINE with that. HORRAY for a kid that's had enough OT to tell me when she feels like it's getting to be too much!

November is my favorite month. It's getting cooler, I can wear jeans and boots and jackets and hats, don't need to wear a heavy coat, leaves are falling, Thanksgiving is my most favorite holiday EVER -

and it's my birthday month - along with that of some of my most favorite people.

I thought long and hard about participating in NaBloPoMo this year - I've done it every year since it began, I think. (That stands for National Blog Posting Month, in which you post on your blog every day for a month.) Ultimately, I decided not to do so. I'm working 6-8 hours a day at my job - which I love! - and about 2 hours of freelance work, house and kids and family and exercise and sanity. And I don't want to feel pressured to get something up here, throw something up just for the sake of saying that I didn't miss some made up deadline -

so I'm not going to do it.

Every day that I do post here, though, I plan to name some things for which I am grateful. That's one of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving and I love the 30 days of thankfulness that some people participate in, so I decided to follow.

Today I am grateful for my husband, the hardest working man I know. :)

And that Halloween is over for another year. :)

Comments

[Kay]

I thought I was the only person that hated Halloween! Glad to know I am not alone. I am glad it's over for another year too.

[Pam]

I am with you as well on Halloween! When I had 2 small children, I did dress them up and take them out - more for me than for them, I suppose. But once I had 5 it was too overwhelming to even think of creating costumes let alone manage their candy addictions until the candy was gone! That's when we decided to forgo the usual and made it a "family night". We would take all 5 to Chuck E Cheese and let them go wild. They honestly had more fun than if they had done the traditional and we had little work to do as well as no sugar to manage. It was a win-win solution! Now they are all too old for trick or treat, so I feel less compelled to even acknowledge the day, but I do try to come up with a treat for them. This year it was a little white paper bag cut down to about 3 inches high, stamped with spiders, and topped with a Happy Halloween topper I stamped. 3 fun size m&m's fit quite nicely in it. They were appropriately thrilled and I felt like a "good mommy". LOL
I grew up in Maine, and fall is one of my favorite seasons because of the foliage and the change of uncomfortable temps to the cool, crisp days and nights. I'm a turtlenecks/sweaters kind of girl! So, I am thankful for this season as well a husband much like yours! Mine is also the hardest working man I know. I am blessed!

[Brandy]

I adore Halloween. I love watching the cute little kids in their costumes who timidly come to my porch and sweetly say trick-or-treat. I like the idea of being thankful for at least one thing every day. (Especially as everything seems to be falling apart right now. knockonwood)
Of course, I love Fall for the same reasons you do, too.

[Sandy]

I am not a fan of Halloween and November is my favorite month also!!!~!

[Melanie]

I'm always the odd one out because I don't like Halloween. Never have - not even as a kid. I don't like being scared, I hate seeing gruesome, creepy, horrific things and I don't like strangers coming to my door. But, hey! November! Awesome birthday month :)