Right Out Of A Book

Tonight, four characters jumped right out of the pages of books and sat on my front porch. Costumes are readily available in our house because dressing up remains one of the top activities for my children. If a pair of jeans, skirt or sweater are found lying around our rec room, it's evidence that somewhere in the house a pirate or princess is leaping or dancing.

Just Like Any Other Day

Most days these children of mine are defending the castle with a sword fight, or flying off of tall towers, or searching for their home as a stray animal. Yesterday was no exception.

And so, even though some kids look forward to picking out a costume at this time of year (and so do mine), for these children, dress-up is part of their lives. Besides a bit of extra sugar, this was like any other day :)

Every Day Is Dress-Up Day

In these here parts, every day is dress-up day. Halloween night usually means we go with our cousins and stop at our favourite neighbours', who love to see the kids, then off to Grandma's and then onto the church for the Harvest Party. This year, all of the kids, as well as, my husband were not feeling well. I had just returned home from my retreat two hours before and they just had to dress up anyway! We didn't end up going to the church, which is a twenty-five minute drive for us but we did manage to visit a few people with our beautiful butterflies, Egyptian princess and little cowboy :)

But, it wouldn't matter what day it was, these children of mine love nothing more than dressing up and play-acting. We've joined a homeschool theatre group and are presenting Peter Pan in June. This will feel quite natural to my children as they dance about as some new character a few times a day. My husband and I have no lack of entertainment.

Now, if only someone would come and make all this candy disappear!