This week, I know that some days are yellow, some days are blue (to quote the late, great Dr Seuss).I know that Halloween dressing up and trick or treating might not be an Australian tradition, and that it makes a lot of people on Twitter very grumpy, but that it sure is fun for the kids, and actually really nice communal time for the kids in our street.
I know that I'm glad to have Halloween as a force with which to push back against the absurdity of Christmas marketing in September. "Nothing Christmassy til after Halloween" works!
I know that Melbourne Cup Day has an entirely different resonance for me now that I have three children, and do NaNoWriMo each year. No more champagne, chicken, strawberries and carousing, but instead I have cuddles, stories and a writing sprint :-)
I know that it's getting to be a long time since husband and I last had a few hours together without any of the kids, and the strain of that is starting to show.
I know that this makes me all the more excited about our tickets to see k d lang next Saturday night - grandparent babysitting, and 5 hours out for us!
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oh, I hear you on not getting kid-free time with husband - we managed to sneak off for an hour when we were in melbourne a couple of weeks ago, but it had been almost a year!
ReplyDeleteWow, almost a year - that's a while!
ReplyDeleteWe had 4 hrs back in July when big kids were at school holiday club and toddler at creche - we went into town & had a beautiful lunch at MoVida. It was great. Before that, it would've been New Year's Eve, when we went to see TRON at the cinemas and my parents babysat. Every 5-7 months seems to be our average.
Enjoy your date with hubby next week ;p Sometimes hubby and I take time off work to have some time alone too.. just a simple meal and maybe movie heh.
ReplyDeleteYour kids had cute Halloween costumes! It's not a big thing over here in Singapore too..
Ai @ Sakura Haruka
I so need kid free time too. I must organise that soon. Halloween trick or treating got the neighbours out in my street too, I thought it was fantastic and the kids had a ball.
ReplyDeletekd lang, nice :)
ReplyDeleteWe had a movie night last night, Julie & Julia, his choice. Last movie was The King's Speech, or The King's Peach as Miss 5 calls it. Dvd's, obviously because we don't get to leave the house together, that would be ... unimaginable!
November sounds very productive for you. Good luck with NaNo!
ReplyDeleteI agree, Halloween makes children very happy. What could possibly be wrong with that?