{"id":1753,"date":"2022-11-06T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T18:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habitways.com\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:35:53","slug":"elementor-1753","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitways.com\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1753\" class=\"elementor elementor-1753\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b10b522 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b10b522\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0ec31b8\" data-id=\"0ec31b8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19089cd elementor-position-top elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"19089cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.6.7 - 03-07-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">November 6, 2022<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the morning after the 2nd slumber party we\u2019ve hosted in as many weeks, and it\u2019s been a blast for the girls. The parents have not only survived, but thrived, with the house coming out cleaner than when we started, and no one any worse off for having a little bit later night up. Whew!\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One nice thing I\u2019ve discovered in this process is that simple meals work well for kids. We did mac &amp; cheese one night, and \u201cpasta bar\u201d (with two different pasta choices, two different sauce choices, meatballs, &amp; parmesan) another night for dinners, and pancakes for breakfast both mornings. Kids ate heartily, and parents didn\u2019t have to spend a lot of money or time slaving over gourmet meals for finicky eaters.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> suffering is my habits program! I\u2019m at only 78% so far this week. Admittedly, that\u2019s still above my 70% goal, but it\u2019s far from my unspoken ideal of 90% per week. I haven\u2019t walked at all this week, and have barely read either. My excuses for those: it\u2019s been a dreary, rainy week, and I\u2019m reading a book for book club that I\u2019m just not that into. But I have an indoor elliptical-type exercise machine that I can use in place of outdoor walks, and I have a couple other books in my queue that I could read instead, so really, I\u2019ve just been slacking.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m starting to feel the weight of multiple habits piled on top of one another, and I\u2019m only a third of the way through the year. Seventeen habits so far! I even chose an easy one for last week &#8211; weigh in, something I\u2019ve been doing consistently since I started tracking calories back in week ten. It\u2019s not yet overwhelming in terms of time or effort though, so I can\u2019t complain too much.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, I almost forgot an exciting news flash about Halloween, that affirms the power of this project! Halloween was rainy and cold this year &#8211; ick! I felt like I might have the start of a cold, so I opted out of taking the girls around the neighborhood, and my husband graciously stepped in and even dressed up in costume for the event. They met up with a couple other families, and went to a neighborhood Halloween event the next block over. Midway through the night, I got my first knock on the door. Hooray! A trick-or-treater, I thought. Nope. One of the kids had gotten especially wet in the rain and was crying, so her mom brought her, their dog, and my youngest daughter to our house to get warm and dry. I doled out towels, and put a batch of hot chocolate on the stove.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, a second knock. Finally! I thought, again. Nope. The dad of the other family was stopping by to check in on his family, before heading back out to rejoin the other group with his other daughter. There was a bit of chaos, with dogs barking, kids playing (having quickly gotten over the wet cold sadness), and hot-chocolate-making. In the midst of all this, I didn\u2019t hear the knock on the door for the third time. Luckily, my daughter did, and came to get me for a real trick-or-treater this time! Yay! One little girl, who was too shy to take big handfuls of candy, like I asked her to. A few minutes later, there was another knock on the door. Yay, I thought. Now we\u2019re finally getting somewhere! Nope. It was the rest of the group. The rain had picked up, and everyone crashed our house to escape the weather.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We poured three more hot chocolates for the older girls, got out the whiskey for the adults, and had an impromptu Halloween party at our house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For anyone who knows me, you know that this would normally be my worst nightmare. I would be cringing about the disgusting state of our bathroom, and the piles of dishes on the counter, hoping that no one noticed the gargantuan dust bunnies creating whole communities under the kitchen toe-kicks, and in the corners of the hallway. In my unicorns and rainbows world, we <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that house that people can feel free to stop by whenever, stay for a drink, and make themselves at home. But in reality, I have always been so self-conscious about the mess and the clutter, that I can hardly ever have anyone over, even for a planned event.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But guess what? The house was mostly clean! And I didn\u2019t even care about the piles of recycling on the kitchen counters! We even got a compliment about how clean the house was! I loved being able to pull out the hot chocolate and whiskey, and have people stay for a random hour &#8211; on a school night, no less!\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This habits project is really working! I am starting to live my unicorns and rainbows life that I\u2019ve always coveted! The downside? We only got two trick-or-treaters the whole night! I let our friends\u2019 kids pillage the candy bucket before everyone left, but we still have way too much candy. It\u2019s wreaking havoc on my and my husband\u2019s weight-loss plans! <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween Suffering and validation November 6, 2022 \u00a0 It\u2019s the morning after the 2nd slumber party we\u2019ve hosted in as many weeks, and it\u2019s been a blast for the girls. 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