this is amber. i just wanted to express my disgust in our nation's youth. our family had a very nice family home evening last week when we carved our pumpkins. the girls also had a couple small ones that they colored themselves. we went out tonight and had all of our trick-or-treat fun, but on the way home, i decided to take Sister out to knock on a few doors. Papa let us out a couple of streets away from our home so we could treat a few houses on the way, the other two were asleep. anyway, as we approached our house, i noticed something all over the side walk, so, knowing what it was, i tried to lead Sister across the street to one more house and walk our way around the mess, but, alas, she saw it too. it was heart breaking to watch my daughter cry and get upset with the wind (she thought the wind blew the pumpkins so hard that they all broke). i took her to a couple more houses to get it off her mind, then took her in to go to bed. after she went to sleep, i went back out to see just how bad the damage was. bad. they broke two of our scarecrows, all of the pumpkins the kids got from their field trip to the pumpkin patch, threw the corn all over, and just what ever else their naughty little minds could think of.
i never did that kind of stuff growing up, and i thought i had missed out on a right of passage all kids go through. now that i am a mother, i am so glad to say that i never did that to any other little children, children who undoubtably worked hard on their pumpkins only to have some looser destroy it for their own sick pleasure. our friends just down the street stopped to help when they saw me out there cleaning up the mess and said there were several houses on the way that had been attacked as well. i just want to say, keep people in mind when you get bored and think some mindless vandalism will liven things up. there could be a little one that is going to be heart broken with the results.