While I agree to an extent, I’m also a firm believer that we need to be “creating” the memories. So that they feel like they’ve been involved with carving pumpkins since they were little girls. And let me just add that EVERYTHING I do for the girls today is to “create” good memories for them in the future.
I live for the past of the future.
Does that make any sense??
Anyways, I happened to pick up a special pumpkin carving kit, complete with carving tools and designs at Target. Sunday evening the girls and I cracked my pumpkin open and got to work. Laina refused to touch the innards and ran to the living room to watch Cinderella.
For the 20 gazillionth time.
Maile, on the otherhand, was great about rolling up her sleeves and getting dirty. She counted seeds. Grinned at the slimy feeling. And lasted a whopping ten minutes or so before joining Laina.
Before I knew it I was all alone sawing at this tiny pumpkin with a tool that HAS to have been made for a five year old. The worst part is that Maile had picked out this stupid bat design that I was supposed to trace onto the pumpkin. So it’s not like the simple triangle eyes and nose I’ve done in the past. This one has twists and turns and lots of fun angles to dig into with my neat little tool.
Pat found the whole thing to be quite entertaining:
“How’s it goin’ Kat?? You making some good memories over there!?!”
Then a little later:
“Boy Kat, the girls are never going to forget this!!”
It took all I had not to throw the pumpkin guts his way. Remember THIS foo. Alas. I did not.
By the time I finished, my little bat pumpkin hardly resembled the design. Though I’m still quite pleased with the finished product. Maile and Laina came running back to stake claim to a prject they had nothing to do with and Pat took pictures for them to fondly look back upon someday.
I’m sure they’ll forget all about the hour they spent watching Cinderella as I painstakingly carved that dumb pumpkin. They’ll look at those pictures and think they were there with me the whole time, helping to carve pumpkins.
Creating memories.
That’s what it’s all about. :)
EVERYONE’S excited in the beginning.
Do you see the bat??
Maile come back and insists she get to put the candle in.
Now do you see the bat??