Thursday, September 24, 2009

Fall is here

Today I saw a first pumpkin of the season on our neighbors' mailbox. It's that time of the year again - fall. Halloween. My birthday. I hate Halloween and especially my birthday, but I love the season. Even though here in Northern California we don't have beautiful leaves falling from the trees and making a colorful carpet on the ground.

Another year has gone by, bringing back memories. Many years ago, when my older son was 2 years old, late in the evening we would take a flash light and go around the neighborhood, counting pumpkins at each door. This is how our love for math began.









When both my kids were little, I would take them to our annual trip to a pumpkin patch. We would ride a small train, go into a corn maze, watch barn animals, walk around giant pumpkins and take pictures, and pick one big pumpkin and several small colorful squashes of interesting shapes to put by our door.

Then we would visit a Halloween store. We would try on every mask, play with toy weapons and scary toys, and take pictures. We did not buy any costumes because my kids were never into the trick-or-treating, but trying them on was always fun.















And in the evenings, we would take a tour around the neighborhood and look at the Halloween displays.










At the actual Halloween, instead of going trick-or-treating, my kids stayed at home waiting for trick-or-treaters to come in. My kids loved giving out candy and look at the costumes.

Now my kids are too old to do all this stuff. That's kind of sad. I need to plan some other activities for them to do in the fall. Unfortunately, I can't think of any right now. I guess all that's left is to stay home, remember past days and be sad.

1 comment:

Vered said...

Not necessarily... sure, they're not interested anymore in things like pumpkin patches, but dressing up in a costume and going trick-or-treating is fun even for teenagers.