As much as I love my blog, I don't have much time :) Don't worry- it's a good thing tonight. Britain went to bed early again, (we are still recovering from our trip) and she woke up scared once, so I gave in and let her have the dream light in her bed instead of next to her bed. Which means she pushes the button like 50 gazillion times before going to sleep but hey, she seems legitimately afraid of the dark so I'm a softy.
Brandon and I got baby pumpkins today and Brandon baked them which was very weird to me but apparently that's normal...Who knew?
Moving on, the smell of pumpkins apparently made Brandon miss what we call "real Halloween." Let me explain, you know the disgusting and graphic zombies that are everywhere? We don't like them. We think it's completely inappropriate to have a giant billboard on the freeway displaying something that gives me (a grown woman) terrifying nightmares. The poor kids in our society are going to grow up desensitized to anything repulsive, inappropriate and graphic if something doesn't change. So Brandon "hates" Halloween. He hates what it has become, gore and totally immodest girls. I agree. But I still have a costume for Britters and we will go to the ward party.
Sooooo Britain and I were not totally abandoning this holiday, but out of respect for Brandon, we did not decorate our house...At all. But then, the smell of the pumpkins made him miss "real Halloween" and that lead to a discussion. We decided that the "real Halloween" we knew, only existed because our parents created that a fun happy environment. We are grown ups, we can create the same "real Halloween" for our kids and ourselves. They don't have to only know zombie Halloween. We are going to work to save the nostalgic version of the holiday that we grew up knowing and loving.
Moral of the story, I don't have much time tonight because I have to do a seasons worth of holiday decorating in one night so that we can enjoy it for seven full days. :) Let the games begin. Loves!
Random update... For all my talk of lots of decorating, I usually don't do a lot... Mostly I pick one thing and that's it. Look at the blog labeled Making Friends (Oct. 25) to see the one Halloween item I made.
ReplyDeleteI love this post Emily, well I love them all! But I completely agree with you about decorating and also about the "real Halloween" all of these scary images, terrifying haunted houses with chainsaws, inappropriate costumes that show way too much and the lack of the real reason for Halloween. I'm glad we are on the same page of Halloween having fun with the holiday and not out spending money on the things we don't need. Such a cute Blog Em!! <3 Lyssa
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