Happy Halloween...
Ever look in the mirror, while trying to put on halloween makeup, only to realize you must stretch your skin around your eyes so tight to add freckles, raggedy-ann eyelashes and mouth lines.... because the wrinkles laugh lines keep getting caught around your eyeliner?? And wonder aloud in the wee early morning hours how the heck you got so many wrinkles laugh lines around your eyes without realizing it?
Nah, me neither.
Hello 40.
But I digress....
The earth has tilted on it's axis once again... and life has changed forever.
Halloween's of yesteryear are gone.
My family has officially moved on.
The days of themes and long thought out costumes...
The months of preparing and constructing the (ahem) perfect outfit....
The days of sheer exhilaration of combing through a pile of candy ....
All Gone.
I knew it was going to come....
And I knew that I would feel the loss painfully...
but I didn't want it to end.... so soon.
My 9 year old came in after trick-r-treating tonight with her dad and brother and I asked her if she had fun...
Her response...
"Eh. It was OK."
For a brief moment, I looked back on last year ... wishing I could go back in time to warn my old self that it would be the last time we'd all go Trick-r-Treating... But only for a moment.
I do get a small thrill that the tradition is being carried on by my sister Erin....(I'm hoping she'll post pictures soon) and that they are having so much fun with it.
I watched the older women at work, today, show off their adult kids and grand babies and realized that my life will soon mirror theirs. I also watched the young families bring their kids through our office trick-r-treating party.... and realized how fun that would be.
And breathed a sigh... and hitched up my big-girl pants and decided change is OK.
“Life is one of those precious fleeting gifts, and everything can change in a heartbeat.”~~Unknown
Nah, me neither.
Hello 40.
But I digress....
The earth has tilted on it's axis once again... and life has changed forever.
Halloween's of yesteryear are gone.
My family has officially moved on.
The days of themes and long thought out costumes...
The months of preparing and constructing the (ahem) perfect outfit....
The days of sheer exhilaration of combing through a pile of candy ....
All Gone.
I knew it was going to come....
And I knew that I would feel the loss painfully...
but I didn't want it to end.... so soon.
My 9 year old came in after trick-r-treating tonight with her dad and brother and I asked her if she had fun...
Her response...
"Eh. It was OK."
For a brief moment, I looked back on last year ... wishing I could go back in time to warn my old self that it would be the last time we'd all go Trick-r-Treating... But only for a moment.
I do get a small thrill that the tradition is being carried on by my sister Erin....(I'm hoping she'll post pictures soon) and that they are having so much fun with it.
I watched the older women at work, today, show off their adult kids and grand babies and realized that my life will soon mirror theirs. I also watched the young families bring their kids through our office trick-r-treating party.... and realized how fun that would be.
And breathed a sigh... and hitched up my big-girl pants and decided change is OK.
“Life is one of those precious fleeting gifts, and everything can change in a heartbeat.”~~Unknown
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