Firsts and lasts. Beginnings and ends.
This is the first year my daughter, 3 1/2, has picked her own Halloween costume. No princess get-up for her -- she wanted to go as Buzz Lightyear, from the Disney Pixar movie "Toy Story." And I have no problem with that. Better an astronaut than a Barbie.
It's also the last year her big brother, Mikel, will be home for Halloween. Next year, hopefully, he'll be off somewhere starting his first year of college.
I thought of this last night as I took pictures of Mikel drawing a face on Katie's pumpkin to be carved for Halloween. She's going to miss him next year, her "Bohku," as she calls him (perhaps her amalgamation of the words brother and Mikel).
But in life, there really are no stopping or starting points. It all just flows together, like an unending river.
To Infinity and Beyond!
As a great grandparent, how well I recall this Halloween night with our own children, when it was safe to wander around and we didn't worry about poisoned candy or sexual predators. Just a happy time of ghosts and goblins. Now folks have to change their habits, but no matter. This can be a happy time for all!
Dangerously cute!
I'm tired of all the ugliness surrounding this night, along with schools trying to be politically correct for those that don't "support" Halloween.
It's just the one day of the year you can allow your imagination to run wild and as a kid be whatever or whomever you want to be.
Last year a co-worker's little girl went on her first Halloween trip to the neighbors as the Afflac Duck. She barely knew how to talk, but the parents taught her how to say "Afflac" when going to the door for candy.
The only thing in doing this very cute idea for a child of 3 or 4 years old, is that you have to be prepared to hear "Afflac" muttered 24/7 throughout the house for the next 5 months as well!