Kid-ism? What is a Kid-ism? I look at it as the infinite wisdoms that kids impart upon us everyday that cause a giggle, a chuckle and an out and out laugh. You have experienced them, repeated them and remembered them when you needed a little pick me up. In the immortal words of the late great Art Linkletter,"Kids say the darndest things!"







Moms or mom moms; Dads or pop pops are loaded down with them: potty stories, telephone conversations, Sponge Bob quips...whatever they are we keep them close to our heart. They warm us and make us smile. That is what this blog is all about. I wanted to share some of my stories with you; share a piece of my sunshine and love with you. And I hope you, too, will feel free to share yours with me.







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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Halloween

I do have to admit that I do miss Halloween with my little boy.  It was almost as exciting as Christmas with the prep and anticipation that was involved with going trick or treating.  I can remember back to when we were all kids and the day of candy approached.  We would start planning what costume we were going to wear almost as soon as school started...there was a lot of planning and prep involved in creating the ultimate costume.  "My costume is going to be soooooooo cool ...way better than yours" could be heard from many people.  I remember throwing the line around too.  It was so important that each of us come up with THE costume.  It had to be unique and over the top all at once.  Buying your look was totally unacceptable.  The harder the better was our motto.  A large cardboard box could turn you into just about anything...

How different things are today...the big day for the costume is the Halloween parade at school and most of the looks were purchased from Party City or Walmart.  Hardly anyone makes their own costume and even more don't even go out trick or treating.  Every year I hear from friends and family that hardly anyone came by the house...Not us-- we could hardly wait to get going.  Armed with a pillowcase we were off-running from door to door, coming home to dump the pillowcase into paper shopping bags when it got too heavy and back out as fast as we could.  This mission of sorts, would go on until we were turned back home by the sight of police driving through the neighborhoods and less and less porch lights on...We would drag ourselves home cold and tired with aching feet to sit down at the table and watch our parents go through our stuff so that we could dive in.  I remember getting up to 5 paper shopping bags full of all kinds of candy.  Real candy-not this tiny stuff they give out now.  Oh how I enjoyed that! 

Then I became the mom--still fun to dress them up but not so fun to do all the walking and holding the crap that went with their costume when they got tired of carrying it...in the rain, the cold, one year got lazy and drove.  Yes I became one of those parents!  Now I just hand out candy and miss my little boy trick or treating. 

Now he is the dad with the little man in a Buzz Lightyear costume and plastic pumpkin walking around...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

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