Family traditions...

Those family traditions that you create. Sometimes don't turn out exactly the way you plan or would hope....no matter what I am grateful for any day that I can spend time with my children.
Running out of time to get to the pumpkin patch as Halloween is just around the corner, and if we don't go this weekend we won't get to go at all, because our schedules don't permit us to fit any outing in during the week, Cailey has football practice every day after school (she is a football manager). So after church today we get in the car and head to the pumpkin patch............OH MY GOSH, has every parent in Smyrna waited 'til today to go to the pumpkin patch....my memories of previous visits were so happy as we stroll through and take our time, enjoying seeing the baby animals, feeding the goats, the girls taking pictures in the sunflower patch, Brevin searching for his little pumpkin, going through the hay maze, corn maze, lots of great photo ops.......today just was not that day.........
Cailey did not want to be at the pumpkin patch, Alex came I think because she knows how much those little family traditions mean to me, even though this would only be the 4th year we have been, still a tradition. And Brevin was a wild man, he gets really excited in crowds, and today there was a crowd....hundreds of people trying to create those beautiful memories of their children at the pumpkin patch. I think for me the best moment was when Brevin spotted a basketball hoop and attempted to heave the pumpkin over his head towards the hoop....who could blam him, the thing is round and orange and isn't that what we throw into the hoop.....he's a genius I have known it and still know it.....
So we did not spend the time we normally would, it was chaotic and loud, and so we decided I could bring Brevin during the week when it was more peaceful...maybe I will have to adjust my traditions...Cailey is a teenager as this is not her idea of fun anymore....So it may just be Brevin and I going to the Pumpkin Patch next year...a new family tradition, but still a tradition, and how I love them.....where might I have gotten that from??? I'll never be my mother!!!