“The days are long but the years are short” is never truer than when I’m looking back at Halloweens past. Before I was a mom, I used to sit on the front porch handing out candy to the neighborhood kids, often alone because my Navy husband was away on deployment.
I’d “ooh” and “ahh” over the cute costumes and encourage the tired-looking parents to hang in there — as if I had any idea what it took to wrangle a toddler into an ill-fitting and itchy costume (one they wanted to wear!) or negotiate with a cranky preschooler who was up two hours past their bedtime as they bounced around the house in a sugar rush.
Then I found out.
Halloween with little kids is fun — and exhausting
Once we had two kids, Halloween became this big, exciting holiday that somehow felt like it was more for me than them — and yet it was still completely exhausting. My oldest son was only 10 months old on his first Halloween and I think he wore his Tigger costume for maybe an hour before he’d had enough of the holiday.
The following year, he was thrilled to wear his lion costume and go trick-or-treating with his 8-week-old baby brother dressed as a peapod. It was a very early evening for all of us, but they were adorable. Of course, my husband and I claimed most of the candy (the “candy tax,” we called it) because they were too young to enjoy it.
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