My social media feeds are full of costume pictures. This makes me quite glad. It is much nicer to have personal pictures that I can click to show appreciation rather than posts full of links where I have to click “hide” to protect myself from anxiety. I’ll take pumpkins and costumes.
We’re having a low-key Halloween here at Chez Tayler. None of my kids are interested in Trick or Treating. Only one of them put together a costume. The other three either didn’t care or didn’t have the energy to devote to thinking one up and making it. We even missed the neighborhood Halloween party. Not on purpose, it just fell in the middle of a working Saturday. We got to the next day before we realized we’d missed it.
I’ve been focusing my energy on Kickstarter management and getting my junior high kid settled into partial homeschooling. I’ve also been clearing the way so I can spend Friday retrieving Kiki from college. She’s coming home for a weekend visit and a doctor’s appointment. So Halloween happened all around me while I was not paying attention.
It is strange to shift from a life where Halloween was a major event requiring weeks of deliberation and planning to a life where we might accidentally miss it if there weren’t trick or treaters at the door. But that is where we are right now. Perhaps another year we’ll get back into the costuming groove, but for this year we’re spending our energy elsewhere.
Yeah, it’s strange to go from young 20-somethings who dress up and go to Halloween parties, then to parents who are busy with kid costumes, to parents of teens who either don’t care about Halloween or do all the work themselves. I’ve been told by acquaintances who have all their kids in college that the adult Halloween parties come back, but all my friends have kids in grade school, so it might be a while for us. *lol*
Hope you all had a Happy Halloween regardless. 🙂
Whereas I sit in New Zealand watching the steady growth of Halloween here and going “why?”