Halloween ends and the "holiday season begins"

I did not get into Halloween this year as much as years in the past. I did not throw a party or really decorate the house that much. It came upon us all too fast this year. I let the boys choose a costume from our costume bin because everything they wanted to be this year we already owned. I let them pick from the bin and then I added pieces as needed. Dylan was up in the air about whether or not 12 year old kids dressed up. i assured him he did but he did not believe me. He found himself sitting, sulking at his grams house at 5pm after a day at school taught him that most of them were dressing up because lets face it. EVERYONE like free candy. His gram came to the rescue and threw him together a last minute costume. Mason was afraid of and and cried. Will decided to nickname Dylan :GORILLA BREATH: all night in the back seat due to the Gorilla costume and perhaps Dylans breath. So you can just imagine what a joy the three of them were stuck in the back seat together. All across one row with Dylan sitting in between the two little ones. Mason crying because Dylan as scarring him, Will complaining of Gorilla breath and Dylan asking for the millionth time why we did not have a third row back seat so he did not have to "deal with them" I assured him that if he got out and walked he would not have to deal with them. He did stop complaining for a few minutes.

I officially call the day after Halloween the HOLIDAY season. The stores that have not already put out Christmas displays will start to do so. A christmas song will be found on the radio every once in awhile while scanning the stations in the car. The kids will start to point while SCREAMING " I WANT THAT FOR CHRISTMAS" during every other toy commercial. =)

I use to be a good mom and grab a pen and jot down all the wants and compile lists with each kids names written across the top of the paper with stars near the ones they wanted most. Honestly now when the yelling starts during a commercial I say. "oh maybe" sometimes with out glancing up. I do however try to take a mental note to google it later and decide if it is really practical or something that will get played with at all. With three boys we have gotten pretty much every
"boy toy" known to man over the years. Some of them are big hits, but some of them make their way into the closet after a week to never be heard from again. Reminds me of toy story. The unwanted sitting on the top shelf waiting to be played with someday. I also am making a mental note to NOT buy gifts that are going to be connected to the box with 4 thousand twisty plastic things that take 4 hours per leg of the super hero to get off. Mean while the child waiting for the gift is jumping up and down at this point with impatience. seriously, I think we spend hours undoing all those little twisty tie things.

All kidding aside I LOVE LOVE LOVE the holidays. My favorite time a year. I plan on completely getting into them this year. =) we do not have a lot of years left with them all being young and loving Christmas. This year the little two are beyond excited for Christmas and the oldest ....well he loves it because he likes us to buy him expensive over prices electronics that he is just going to lose or leave some place anyway =)