Tricky Treat

I have been thinking a lot about traditions. The temp are cooling in Michigan and the brisk winds whisper to me: Thanksgiving, snow, Christmas...

I want so badly to create traditions and memories for my girls. Stuff they will look forward to each year and look back on when they are grown. I was feeling a little sad, like I had been letting them down-not giving them enough of what they deserve.

But the more I thought about it and started to make plans, I realized we already really do have traditions.  

Every Halloween we carve pumpkins. All of us together. Hubs even makes his son do it with us-we like to torture him every once in a while with mandatory Family Time.

Lovie is scooping in this picture, but mostly she just smacks the pumpkin over and over with her spoon.



Tootsie shoveled a handful of pumpkin guts into her mouth. It's a vegetable, right?



I carved the middle one. It's a bird.

Sister loves to stare into the pumpkin.

Here she is last year...staring. What the heck does she see in there?

Lovie was a cowgirl, because she LOVES Woody, Jessie and Bullseye

Tootsie was a fairy. What's cuter than babies in tights?

Lovie said, "Tricky Treat!"

Then she would run back to me and squeal, "Mommy! Look!"

My cowgirl with Jane and Lola-both Sleeping Beauty.