About 5years ago, maybe more, we stopped celebrating halloween. I grew up "celebrating" halloween - horror movies, haunted houses you name it - we pulled out all the stops. But J & I just came to a point where we felt for our own personal reasons that we didn't want to partake in this 'holiday' anymore and we were going to raise our family differently. Well, we are (esp. me) different to begin with so, it just kinda goes with the territory. Anyhow, it is amazing how many people attack you about choosing not to recognize this day. We are not out to preach anything to anyone, this is just the way we feel and it is our own personal convictions. Some people think we are doing our children such a disservice and "they are going to hate us" -as one guy put it "when they grow up". Give me a break, for not taking them trick or treating? Seriously, so everyone who goes to public school and celebrates halloween has no issues & none of them grow up to "hate" their parents, rrriight. It's funny, the things people say. I think it is because they don't understand and it bothers them..I don't know. BUT anyways, we always do something fun on halloween -because lets face it everyone is having a party and we are not going to hide away and make our children feel like weirdos! So this time we decided to go my moms house and have a huge fire and watch Ice Age 3 outside. My sister is in town and they don't celebrate it either so we all got together and had so much fun! It was really cool, definitely something we will do again & the kids all had a BLAST! The movie was really funny, the company was great, & we had a lot of yummy treats - the evening was perfect. The kids are exhausted and sleeping w/ great memories and a tummy full of sweets!
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