Boo to the Booed !!!

Happy Happy Halloween!!! 

Wow I can't believe we are already ending October and diving into November!! Didn't we just start school??? OMG how time flies!!!    I've been wanting to blog for a while now,  but really had nothing to write about, so I did just that NOTHING!!

To BOO or Not to Boo??? 

I was introduced to Booing a few years ago by a friend, who at the time was a new neighbor on our street. For those of you who are not familiar with booing here is a link. I thought it was a really cute idea.  So I've booed, I've been booed,  here boo, there a boo, - a caribou, hahaha  LMAO...

This year, honestly, I didn't Boo anyone, kinda not in the booing spirit.  With all sorts of things going on in my life new and old, things going on around me new and old, I kinda got lost in it all.  Kinda just lost the spirit of Halloween not that Halloween is my favorite holiday, because it's not.  I just got self absorbed, and forgot all about booing.  Sooo No biggie, right?  Well this is the problem?  Where I'd forgotten about it, Parker my seven year old had not forgotten about Booing. So I guess, secretly she had been waiting to be booed, and as the the days neared Halloween, we still had not been Booed.  Not a biggie to me, but a BIGGIE to Parker.  So yesterday, October 30 as she's getting ready for school, she looks at me with the BIGGEST eyes and with the BIGGEST most sincere hurt in her voice, and says, "We didn't get Booed, I REALLY wanted to get BOOED".  HOLY CRAP!!!

This is where my struggle begins.  Brian, and I are not ones to keep up with the Jones.  We really try not fall into the trap of doing something for our kids because everyone else is doing it for their kids. We're not people who are so fair, it becomes unfair.  See where I'm going with this???  We believe kids need to be disappointed once in a while.  Kids also need to lose once in a while, kids can't always win. Kids can't always be sheltered, bubbled, and protected.  In other words life's going to get in the way, and hand out crappy situations. It's our job as parents to help our kids learn how to deal with unforeseen situations, right? I think it's safe to say Brian and I are pretty realistic.  We're hard on our girls, no pussy footing around it, pretty no nonsense, straight foward  kinda parents. Sooo what do I do, and if you really know me, I typically don't cave when I whole heartedly believe in something. I'm a woman of principle, right?  Wrong?  Parker, the kid who we go toe to toe with at times; my stubborn, willful, head strong child; the kid who moves her bed in front of her bedroom door to keep Brian and I out when she's pissed at us.  She was heart broken. The hurt in her voice, the disappointment in her face, K-I-L-L-E-D me.  I don't ever, ever get this way when it comes to Life Lessons!!  What does Momma Bear do she back paddles, she goes against what she believes in, ugggg!!! I run out to Dollar General, spend money on crap so my girl is not disappointed. I have one day left in the month of October to be Booed. And, by golly, we're getting BOOED Damn it!!! Ha ha ha ha... I do it so I can see those beautiful, big, brown doe eyes sparkle on Halloween morning!  I do it because it meant so much to her.  

New Problem:
Next year will I have to boo myself again? HELL NO!!!  Nope because, I have wonderful friends, who I'll trade off with, you boo me, I'll boo you... LMAO... hahahahahaha.... so I'm not stuck doing it again... Got me?? Good!! hahahahhaha....