Long time no see! I have been crazy busy! Between a booming baby item business, 4 children, working part-time at the Macon County Health Department as a Peer Breastfeeding Counselor for the WIC office, babysitting a slew of kids in our home with Paul’s Help, you could say I am stretched a bit thin… But we are trucking on. Hoping that all this craziness will pay off for our family in the long run! Last night we made our annual trip to Boo at the Zoo. This is always a huge highlight of our kid’s year. Thought I would share some pictures of our event. We did this on the spur so more pictures to come when they get all fully dolled up for Halloween.
Here is a couple from before we left....
This one they posed for and asked to have a picture taken. Captain America is protecting Rapunzel.
This is after we got home, my sleepy little lamb after her first trip to Boo at the Zoo.
Many people ask why we do the whole Halloween thing, when we do not do the whole Santa Claus thing. So here's the deal Halloween originated in the 8th century. Pope Gregory III made Nov. 1 a day to honor all the saints and martyrs, they call the day All Saints' Day. The day before became known as All Hallows' Eve. Eventually it became a community event for children and families to come together for fun activities. So for us a family fun holiday is all in good fun, we don't dress up as evil things, we let the kids pick their costumes and we have a ton of fun together as a family. And then the kids get to keep the costumes for dress up play year around. Now as for the whole Santa Claus thing.... We chose not to take Jesus' Birthday celebration and turn it into a Naughty or Nice, Cole or Presents event. We still have presents but they are from us, not Santa. our children hear about Jesus and not Santa. And we try super hard to explain to our kids that it is not their place to tell other children that there is no Santa. We have explained the history of Santa and Saint Nicholas. And our children still love to watch the Santa movies and even pretend to be Santa at times. But that story is for another blog. :P
Until next time.......
