Halloween

My sympathy's to all those parents who are suffering the post Halloween sugar buzz from there children!

We took the kids out last night Trick or Treating and it was such a pain. All we got from them was my feet hurt, I 'm tired, this bag is to heavy. I heard that same complaint from other children we passed too. When I was a kid I had to be dragged back in, It was my parents that complained that it was time to go home. What has changed? I think that maybe kids get so much all the time that things like Halloween are not as special as they used to be. Even the candy has changed, It used to be that we got suckers and rockets and toffee squares. Mini chocolate bars or a bag of chips were the best to get but you didn't get that many,now that's all the kids get. Its like mixed nuts, you always pick out the good stuff but if you have a whole jar of just the good nuts they just don't taste as good.

Anyway I don't know what to do about this, I do know that Christmas this year is going to be different! I am going to focus on family things not presents. We are going to do lots of baking and make our own decorations and go sledding.(if there's snow) We have focused to much on "things" and not enough on love and family. Its not that we don't care about the kids its just the opposite, I think we tried to hard to give them the "things" that we didn't have as kids, but in doing so left out the things we did have growing up. I must say that my kids are not bad kids, they don't talk back , there not rude or bratty. Its just that they don't appreciate things.
Hopefully its not to late to change how they think, and next year when we go out Trick or Treating they will be grateful for what they get and won't complain so much.