Okay, so you know how yesterday I wrote the post Moms…You Are Enough. And it was all about us Moms believing we ARE enough? I talked about how we need to stop comparing ourselves to other moms and determining our worth based on that comparison? Yeah, well…I’m still learning this concept myself. Perhaps this is why I’m so passionate about it!
I’ve been trolling Facebook all week seeing all these from scratch Halloween themed desserts, meticulously assembled and gorgeous treat bags for trick or treaters, elaborate and homemade kids’ costumes and super awesome, meticulously carved pumpkins.
Meanwhile at our house…
I’m all…hey, I made chocolate chip cookies. It may not be Halloween themed, but the dough was from scratch. And truth be told, I made them because I was craving the dough…
And then I’m all…hey look at my meticulously assembled jumbo bowls of candy, in which I’ll just drop unmeasured handfuls into kid’s bags…
And then I’m all…hey, check out this awesome cardboard head I bought for my kid to wear for his costume…
And then…(this is the BIG one)…then…I’m all…HEY…Screw the pumpkins and the mess that goes with it! We’re decorating Home Depot Homer Buckets with black Sharpies and putting a battery operated lantern under it instead of using real pumpkins. And I can’t even say it was my idea. I got it from the Home Depot Instagram page!
Cheating. Totally cheating. I know. And I’m trying really hard not to care. And not to compare. And it’s REALLY HARD. All of you Moms (and Dads) that did all of the awesome homemade things…you ARE AWESOME. And you too, are enough!
This whole, ‘I’m enough’ stuff is harder than it looks. I feel like I’m letting Noah down. That someday he’ll look back and think, Wow…my mom didn’t even carve pumpkins on Halloween. She drew on an orange bucket from Home Depot, with a Sharpie.
When in reality, he’ll probably instead think, Hey – my mom had this really cool idea to SAVE THE PUMPKINS and instead draw ART on an orange bucket for Halloween!
Okay, soooo maybe the ‘save the pumpkins’ part is an exaggeration.
But my point is this. We sat down, without the TV on, and did something together…in the spirit of Halloween. That is what he will remember. And guess what, years – heck – days from now, that is what I will remember too. I will remember us giggling about drawing on buckets. I will remember him telling me when we were done, “Mom, that was fun…drawing on these buckets, instead of pumpkins.”
And I will smile.
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