{"id":6071,"date":"2019-10-28T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2019-10-28T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:35:53","slug":"its-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/10\/its-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

We made our way to Korny Korners<\/em> this weekend for the annual Pumpkin Fest and it was so much fun. As always.\u00a0 Korny Korners never disappoints.<\/p>\n

I’m just glad that my kids still want to go.<\/p>\n

My kids (that are still at home) are 13 and 16.\u00a0 I realize that the days of picking pumpkins together and carving are winding down. So I will keep doing it as long as I can.\u00a0 I was thinking this weekend – that normally, if my kids were still little – this time of year would be a frenzied one.\u00a0 Running around trying to put together a costume. We always liked to create something of our own.\u00a0 And my kids had a habit of changing their minds at least a dozen times before October 31st. (smile)<\/p>\n

Sometimes I would convince myself I could MAKE something.\u00a0 Pretty much always a disaster. I always think it looks<\/em> easy, and then I end up super frustrated when I discover it isn’t. A crafter I am not.\u00a0 I can’t sew to save my life.\u00a0 But I realized the power of duct tape and pins. (smile)<\/p>\n

Awe, but the memories that are made.<\/p>\n

As parents, when you’re caught up in the stress and chaos, you never believe you’ll miss it.\u00a0 But you do.<\/p>\n

My youngest will be gone on a school field trip this year for Halloween and my oldest will probably hand out the candy. No trick or treating at our house this year. No running around for costumes and accessories.<\/p>\n

But we still have our pumpkins!<\/p>\n

So we made the trip to the pumpkin patch.\u00a0 We went through the corn maze and whimsical woods.\u00a0 We got up close with the goats and the alpacas. We said hello to the cows.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0 watched my girls as they wandered through and remembered all the years before this one.\u00a0 When they were so much younger and smaller, and still needed my help.<\/p>\n

And even against their wishes, I made sure we took pictures to remember the day.<\/p>\n

Making memories is what counts. I want pictures of everything.<\/p>\n

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We picked our pumpkins from the loonie bin – I think it’s like the island of misfit toys, but for pumpkins – and went on our way. I love the odd pumpkins. They are my favourite.\u00a0 I picked a green one.\u00a0 Love it.<\/p>\n

My girls like to listen to Christmas music while they cut up pumpkins – so that’s what we did.\u00a0 It’s tradition.<\/p>\n

Sitting around the kitchen table.\u00a0 Cutting up pumpkins.\u00a0 Scooping out the seeds.\u00a0 Laughing and making a mess. Singing along with a holiday tune.<\/p>\n

That’s the stuff memories are made of and I’m so glad we still do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We made our way to Korny Korners this weekend for the annual Pumpkin Fest and it was so much fun. As always.\u00a0 Korny Korners never disappoints. I’m just glad that my kids still want to go. My kids (that are still at home) are 13 and 16.\u00a0 I realize that the days of picking pumpkins","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3535,3432,3433,3537,1399,3536,3162,3534,210,442],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-carving","tag-costumes","tag-halloween","tag-jack-o-lantern","tag-kids","tag-korny-korners","tag-parenting","tag-pumpkin","tag-pumpkinfest","tag-sarnia"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 11:05:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/10\/its-tradition\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}