Next Tuesday is Halloween, which for many of us means streams of cute children knocking on our front doors.
Love it or hate it; it’s hard to avoid it. So the discussion topic for this week is:
How do you handle this difficult holiday?
As it’s Whiny Wednesday, there’s room for your gripes here, too.
I was doing ok till a friend made a big Facebook announcement about having twins. I would’ve appreciated a message which all my friends know. Especially since I had a late loss of twins. I unfriended her without saying anything and got told I’m being a witch with a b and it’s been long enough I should be fine.
Oy, not a friend. Sounds like she’s more of a C U Next Tuesday situation…ugh! Another reason we don’t do Facebook 🙁
So sorry Jenn – you did the right thing – that’s not a friend. I’ve not checked FB for 7 weeks – I’m reminded to keep it this way.
it’s funny as when we were still trying we lived in the city and were pissed because the neighborhood mommybitches would organize trick-or-treat “maps” and would always leave our street out (wtf – i thought you just turn your porch light on and kids knocked…guess not!)…now that we’re 18 months post-treatments/losses, we live out on 5 acres and my new neighbors said that kids don’t come around because houses are so few and far between…that being said we have another neighbor who has – yeah you’ll love this – ELEVEN children so just for precautions we’re going to keep our porch light off tonight. my poor husband works in retail so he’ll see them all day long (i work from home so i’m totally insulated).
Yes – I’m still keeping the light out, just in case – I did wonder if I might give it a go next year and then I think – why – I don’t know any of them – their parents don’t barely say hello in passing – from the whining I overhear some mornings, I think they are full of too many sweets and Es – I’m doing em a favour! My hubby answered the door by mistake during our TTC years going way back and we had nothing in – he said what can we give them and I said all we’ve got are apples! We then argued in the hall who was going to go back and hand out apples – we went together and I had to stifle my laughter as he said “lovely apples all round”. We never had another caller while we lived in that house. Generally no-one calls unless you put out pumpkins and stuff, the young family opposite didn’t decorate their house this year so I feel a lot less pressure.
I don’t have kids either but I enjoy seeing the little ones all dressed up. It hurts, but so do a lot of things. I try not to be bitter – we took our dog out around the area where most kids go and he loved it – he loves kids sooo much it’s practically painful for him not to meet them so it’s fun for him too. I had no idea dogs could be this way – I’m a bit of an introvert and my dog (my fur-son) is so extroverted he pulls me out of my shell. Sometimes I hate it but I figure it must be good for me.