Tomb who it may concern, here’s a quick run down on how to not let Halloween sneak up and spook you! Or otherwise know as “The-Timeline-of-Halloween-at-The-Kingdom-of-Tired:
1. It’s two weeks before Halloween. Money is tight, your kid is grown, and they are just NOT buying the “we use a sheet with two eyeholes in it. You can be a ghost. Won’t that be fun” routine. You need to suck it up and buy a costume.
2.You see a black cat on the way to work and decide to get a jump on it, feed it, and get on it’s good side.
3. Score a big candy sale at the grocery store. Congratulate yourself on money saved. Hide the candy so your family doesn’t eat it like a pack of hungry Goblins.
4. Spend two days looking for the candy because you hid it too well.
5. the costume Gods smile upon you as you locate a Ninja Turtle costume at Goodwill.
6. Resist the urge to cry when your sone turn his nose up at it says “That’s Michealagelo….Donnnatello is much cooler”.
7. Spend a day convincing your son Michealangelo MUST be cooler…his name is harder to spell.
8 Turn your attention to your 3.5 year old who, in general, resists all clothing except for footie pajamas. .Decide she will be a Kitty Jammie Fairy with a Pink Fuzzy Purse this year
9. In a moment of desparation, stuff your orange pumpkin-face lawn/leaf bags with stuffed animals for front yard decoration because your husband 9for once) was too efficeinbt about raking leaves this fall.
10. Turn to decorating your home. See many cobwebs in the corners and decide that is good enough.
11. While sleeping, you are awakened by a bump in the night. It turns out to only be your spouse searching for the candy you hid.
12. Tell your kids a Halloween joke “what kind of fruit do ghosts like? Boo-Berries!!” (insert cricket noises here).
hALLOWEENS is here! It’s a flurry of small people, candy wrappers, creepy creatures ( a politician stopped by) and gouls (co-workers stopped by too). Your child goes to 5 houses, wants to quit, but presses on cuz Daddy keeps eating their candy. You stay home hand out treats and notice as the evening gets later, the tricker treaters get…bigger. there’s just soemthing so-not-right about teenagers Trick-or-Treating will pillowcases. But you saying nothing because you have no desire to scrape eggs off your house or wrestle toilet paper outta your trees. When it’s all said and done, you tuck your monsters in bed, prayer for no sugar highs, and just before your heavy eyelids shut, you decide to leave the cobwebs in the corners intact. Maybe you can hang bulbs from them for Christmas.
13. Spend the day
Wow! Good for you!
My husband is an ‘all or nothing’ sort of guy, whereas I am more of a ‘do the best you can, it’s better than doing nothing’ type.
And YOU are taking amazing steps!
How true is the all or nothing mentality? But ya know, I was at the zoo the other week and those tortoises are pretty quick.
Kudos to you for facing one of the Greatest Fears on the Planet!
This is so true, what a great post! Thanks for stopping by today. My trip to MN was right past Ely, MN. I just love the area up there. It is so beautiful and peaceful. It was such a great vacation.
Amen to baby steps. Just getting out there and doing it actually works, believe it or not!
Great post!
~Shaye
It’s not just taking the baby steps…it’s not listening to other people when, after you have finished a baby step and you are so happy and proud, some dingleberry comes along and says, “Yeah, but you didn’t do….” Then you feel like, “Why bother?” (Can you tell I have too many negative people in my life?) My new strategy of the past few months has been to tell them where they can go (as politely as possible), or ask them why they feel the need to put me down, which usually sends them running and makes them think twice before doing it again. There’s my evil side for you.
This was truly enlightening…thanks for sharing it. I won’t give up.
good for you! and i know what you mean about steps…i need to take those! i’m a leaper!