Carving Pumpkins

My kids are really lucky to have Charles as their father. He reminds all of us that it is important to have fun. Even when it doesn't fit in the "schedule". We were having a hectic week and time got away from me. It was Tuesday night (the 30th) and we still had not carved our pumpkins. It was past bedtime and my thought was just to scrap it and not do it this year. What a horrible mom I know. Dad came to the rescue and set up shop with the kids and let them have their fun. They are old enough now that they are really doing a lot of the designing and cutting. Brigham could not handle putting his hand in the pumpkin to clean it out. He had all kinds of tools to keep that mushy stuff away from him. He even used my ice cream scoop. All in all I hope that I learned a good lesson - let loose a little and remember that it is not the end of the world if the kids go to bed 45 minutes later because what they will remember is the their dad took the time to stop and have fun with them. Lesson learned- I hope.