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Our First Preschool Fall Festival
Posted 10-30-2007 at 05:17:37 PM by Carolina Momma
Last night, we attended our first fall festival at DD's preschool. The night certainly didn't turn out as I had envisioned. Last year, we went to this pumpkin farm the weekend before Halloween to get our pumpkins for carving. It was a rainy day so we didn't get to do all the activities there but the kids (at least DD) had a good time. This year, I decided on just going to the fall festival at DD's preschool because it was free (compared to the $60 we spent last year) and the proceeds of pumpkin sales went to the school. But I didn't get the experience I was looking for. We had to park far away because the parking lot was completely full by the time we got there. The older two kids were clingy and didn't really want to participate in any activities. So no pics of them doing fun things at the festival. Only DD would go into the pumpkin patch with me. And she was cold and not really interested. I also was expecting the pumpkins to be more child sized. Uh...no. So then I had to figure out how to get three big pumpkins, 2 toddlers, a baby and my 73yo mother back up to our car parked about a mile down the road. Thank goodness I had my sling, so I popped the baby in there and put the pumpkins in the stroller. And I'm even more thankful for the kind gentleman in the parking lot, who saw us struggling with these pumpkins and kids in tow and helped my Mom push the stroller up to the street while I went ahead with the kids and got the car.
Back home, I felt disappointed because as I told DH, I hadn't really gotten the experience I was looking for. And therein lies my problem. I tend to create in my head how I want things to go before they actually happen. So when things don't go according to how I planned them in my head, it becomes disappointing. Instead of just enjoying the moment and taking it for what it was. I strive to create these perfect and memorable moments. I do it partly because my parents never did those type of things for me when I was a child. So I want my own children to experience all the fun, family type stuff I didn't. But memories can't be planned and created like that. Because nothing goes according to plan. And nothing is ever perfect.
Back home, I felt disappointed because as I told DH, I hadn't really gotten the experience I was looking for. And therein lies my problem. I tend to create in my head how I want things to go before they actually happen. So when things don't go according to how I planned them in my head, it becomes disappointing. Instead of just enjoying the moment and taking it for what it was. I strive to create these perfect and memorable moments. I do it partly because my parents never did those type of things for me when I was a child. So I want my own children to experience all the fun, family type stuff I didn't. But memories can't be planned and created like that. Because nothing goes according to plan. And nothing is ever perfect.
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