This Crazy Thing Called Life: "Halloweening" Boucher Style

Thursday, November 1, 2012

"Halloweening" Boucher Style

Halloween is always a lot of fun around here....especially now with four little ones. This year was no exception. I spent all morning at Marley's school helping out with their preschool fall festival and then all of the kids (and parents) went to a local nursing home to sing songs and brighten up some days. I mean, there isn't much in life that's cuter than 30 four and five year olds ~~shouting~~ singing all of the songs they have learned in school so far. Then Halloween evening we took all the kids, and a lot of friends, out to trick or treat. Most of the usual faces came over as well as a few new ones. The older kids (Marley & her friends) had SO much fun. It was so cute watching them all run house to house and yell "Trick or Treat" and "Thank You!" and quickly check out their surprises before running to the next house. The babies had some friends over too and though they didn't get to go to every door, they all still seemed to have a lot of fun. I pulled the babies around in their wagon and they did great....until we were fairly far away from home. We had stopped at a rather scary house and Marissa looked up at it and started crying. Of course that started a chain reaction and all of the babies were scared and crying and loud. At one point, I was carrying all three babies at the same time to keep them happy, though my arms and back didn't take kindly to this. I ended up taking a shorter way home, and luckily another friend joined me to carry Jack, and the rest of the crew kindly kept their eye on Marley so she could stay out a while longer with her friends. They all came back hungry, tired and thirsty but luckily we had pizza and drinks waiting on everyone as well as some Monster Cake. All in all, it was a very fun year for all of us and I can't wait to do it again next year!