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Sunday Snapshot {Extending the holiday}

I am fully aware that it is November 14th and that Thanksgiving is around the corner and Christmas shopping is apparently well under way.

Look what we did this past week. Yup, while the rest of you are buying your Gingerbread house kits (please tell me that you buy the kit in the box and don’t make it from scratch), we made a gingerbread haunted house. (For the record–it was a gift. I didn’t buy it on clearance after Halloween. Though, I totally would have if I had seen it!)

Lydia tried to get in on the action. She’s so cute.

You see, Halloween is a pretty big deal around here. I know that’s sorta strange. We are a Christian family, and I know that many Christian families don’t even “do” Halloween. But, not only do our kids “do” it, they love it. I think the main reason that I haven’t discouraged it at all and have engaged in conversations in April about what they are going to be for Halloween is because of this:

(you better believe I had fun going through old pictures to find these from July 2005)
When Evan was young and unable to deal with his anxiety socially in groups of people at family gatherings or on the playground, costumes became therapeutic. He could put a mask on and become someone else. He was able to do things that he couldn’t do when he was simply Evan. It was pretty amazing to watch him transform from an emotional, anxious child to a superhero simply by putting on a cheap piece of black plastic with an elastic string over his face. I learned to love costumes. 
So, yes, you’ll still see my kids dressed up as Spiderman or Buzz or a monkey or an astronaut or as Darth Vader well into the Spring…and beyond (to infinity and beyond, perhaps?). And, yes, I may blog a few months from now about our “upcoming” Halloween plans. I’m sure they will have already been discussed. 

Ni Hao Y'all

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  1. Cute pics. the house looks fun to make and good idea on the costumes. glad you all found something that could work for him.

  2. Fun! My five-year-old is the SAME way. He regularly goes to “school” (daycare) dressed as Spiderman, Batman, and various Transformers. I say, “what the heck?” He starts Kindergarten next year, so if he wants to wear a costume everyday, I let him.

  3. Kelly! you are too funny! great photos, and I have to say you are the ONLY family I’ve ever seen to a *scary* gingerbread house! LOL!

  4. I can certainly appreciate a good excuse to dress up in a costume – especially if the only line I have to memorize isl trick or treat/

  5. So, imagine my surprise after visiting two blogs that already are showing their beautiful (from a magazine picture) Christmas trees and trimmings, I see your Halloween gingerbread house!! Too funny! I am thinking i would rather live at your house in my costume!! And I do agree, Lydia is so cute!!

  6. So fun…we never did gingerbread houses as a kid..had not thought to do it. But I can so see Izabella lovin’ it. She said, “House Mommy!” when she saw the pictures! I told her what it was and said, “Daddy make the best gingerbread cookies–perhaps we can get daddy to make some gingerbread men and women with us this Christmas.” She thought that would be fun. Thanks for the fun ideas.

    And..most of all I love your Halloween all year story. You go Evan–so smart. He knew how to make himself at ease–even at a young age. So sweet.

    You’re a great mom Kelly–they are all blessed with you.

  7. I love Halloween too! I feel bad for kids who have to miss out on the holiday. It is so much fun to be someone else for the day! How can that be bad?

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