It never ceases to amaze me how fast time flies. How fast kids go from being little children and needing me to give them baths and cut their meat...to children who stand taller than me and put themselves to bed every night. Sigh. Life.
This Halloween the kids were all talking about Trick-or-Treating and candy and I stopped the boys. One is sixteen and the other almost fourteen. I asked them if they felt their time Trick-or-Treating was about up? Gasp. You would have thought I had ushered them into the street to live.
Okay, I really don't have a problem with teen boys Trick-or-Treating but I had two rules. 1) they HAD to dress up. They were not going to wear their jeans and a t-shirt and go as themselves (as scary as teen boys sometimes can be, that was NOT a costume!); and 2) the costume they did decide on HAD to come from our two overstuffed bins of costumes. I have everything from clowns and monks to bums and old ladies. In another words, they could find SOMETHING out there to wear.
They agreed. And then a few days later Josh announced that he would rather just stay home and hand out candy (with the promise, however, that some of the candy I purchased to give out he could pillage).
As they stood in 2004, our first Halloween here in Idaho.
Halloween, 2005
H-06
'Ween, 2007
Halloween, 2008-I-Rest-My-Case (what is Josh, anyway? Although that vampire costume sure got a lot of use!)
The Halloween in Pennsylvania, 2009
And, Halloween last year, 2010
I'm all for kids Trick-or-Treating (in costume!) because they are only young once and why take away such a fun night? Besides, there is plenty of time for being a grown-up but these days are fleeting and gone in a blink of an eye.
Boo.
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