Turkeys!

Flowers on my Grave

The other day in the car Quinn says, "Mom, when you and Dad die I'll come and put flowers by your grave."

He's been a bit curious about death lately/for quite awhile now. Wondering how many more years until his Great-Grandmas pass away. Making "smart guesses" as to which one will die first. Wondering if it will hurt when he dies. Trying to understand how souls can go to Heaven, but the broken bodies stay in the ground.

Although I've given tips and tricks for talking to your kids about death - this topic is never easy. It has turned into many different discussions - my favorite being the one where we tried to explain that when your body is badly hurt (like in a car accident) it produces endorphines that stop the pain messages from getting to your brain - so no, it probably wouldn't hurt to die like that.

We don't like to not answer his questions - and we don't try to get out of the conversation, but I never knew that having a child who liked to think could be so difficult!

What?

Wait? It's already November? Mid-November? Seriously? What happened.

Quinn's going to be six in just 10 days. Crazy.

Anyway - Happy Halloween. One of my favorite holidays just came and went super quick.

I'm an All or Nothing Sort of Girl...

When I decide to do something I sort of go all out. For me - it's all or nothing.





So, when I challenged myself to not eat any Halloween candy starting Nov. 1st I knew it had to be all or nothing. No letting myself have a bite of one of the boy's pieces, no choosing just certain ones I can eat. I will eat none of it.

But then today I realized someting. Even after having Mike take an entire bag of chocolate candies to work - If I don't eat any of this candy it will take FOREVER to get it out of the house.

So...

I decided: Each time I "crave" a piece of candy or each time I think about eating one - I will go choose a piece and put it in another bag - to either donate or send to Mike's work. (Any ideas of where I could donate this candy would be awesome. As of tonight there are 6 pieces in there. I'm sure the bag will be ready by the end of the month.)