Megan Thompson

I love tradition. There is a comfort in knowing that certain things will happen at certain times. That's probably why I love the holidays so much and look forward to them. Now that we are days away from Halloween and the stores are already busily putting out Christmas stuff I stopped to think about tradition. What does it look like in your home? With your family? Tonight we carved pumpkins with the kids. We turn on the Charlie Brown Halloween special and cover the table with newspapers and pile the pumpkins on top. It's always so much fun to see the kids reactions year after year as they start to get older to the inside of the pumpkin...the texture, the smell...it's still a new experience for them every year at this age. Most of the time they fizzle out about half way through and we as parents end up finishing it for them but I'll tell you the look on their faces when the candle goes inside and they see their pumpkin on the front step is priceless. So I hope you all enjoy this time of year when so many traditions come into play :). Happy Halloween.