Season Themed Activities

hi Ambie Pam Here at Gold Crest we will have a costume party for Halloween and I still have not figured out if I could get a costume ready before next Friday as I am really short of money. And living in a place like this its not like when I was in my own apartment with some thing I might be able to use for a home made costume.Last year it wasch a lot of fun as they gave prizes for the best three fifty , twenty five, and fifteen dollars.We had all sorts of good things to eat too and I really did have fun.I still do not w ant to be here but here I am and it sure as heck is a lot better than floating around on the street. I have never been in a corn maze but was in an English maze once and got completely lost. I used to love to go to pumpkin patch and we always had a pumpkin for the kids to carve at Halloween. Its been so boring here since the school system cut the funds for all the senipr programs we liked so much.

Hi ambiepam, I cant say I plan my seasons well. The most reason is I probably always work on these seasons holidays. I am free from ofline work on halloween but I know for sure I work the hole christmas weekend. So there is no point of planning for those times since all I need to do when I am free is sleep and try to relax as much as I can. This year we cant use our saved free time that we can use other wise our boss has said that we are not allowed to take days of during this christmas. For me, I do not care but for others with small children tha can be unfair. The winter season as a hole I stay indoors and try relaxing with sleep, online activities and house hold work.

I would love to do a hay ride but the price of hay has gotten to high but it has been 14 years since I been on one...and the kids love them. I have never been to a corn mazeand it has been since I was in grade school that I been to a pumpkin patch..and I would love to go to a Haunted house..

I went to the most amazing pumpkin farm in So. Barrington, IL last weekend! There were lots of interesting animals there. I got some awesome pictures. There was a giraffe named George. There were 4 camels. my nieces got to ride on them. There were pig races.There were tons of other animals too. There was a haunted house and a jumping pillow for the younger kids. They also had tons of pumpkins and other plants. There was a shop with fall decorations, pumpkin pie, and apple cider too. It was seriously cool!

Hubby and I used to decorate for every holiday but we don't anymore because we don't have any kids, not by choice but because we just couldn't have any so it just became too much work just for the two of us and we hardly ever have any visitors so the whole decorating idea became a big chore that we decided that we could do without one less thing to do on our 'to do' list. So we gave away a lot of the stuff to people who wanted them. Now we do go to Christmas shows or displays and still put up a Christmas tree but that's pretty much about it.

We normally go to a pumpkin patch every year that has a cornmaze and hayride. We won't get our pumpkins there though as they're expensive. There's a farm around the corner which sells pumpkins for $2 each regardless of size, so that's where we get them and we'll carve them too. This year we did not go to the pumkin patch unfortunately. We've been so busy with working on FIL's place we've not had the time or the money. We did get our pumpkins today though and will carve them tomorrow. On Monday my 7 yr old son's class is all carving pumpkins and bringing them to a local nature center where they're doing a big hoop la next weekend where they'll line their trails with the carved, lit pumpkins and people can go and walk through at night.. which normally the place closes at dusk. Unfortunately there is a larger charge for going at night, so we may not afford it.. but we're going to try like heck since one of our children's pumpkins will be on display there!

No Halloween is quiet here lol I know some People celebrate it but not many Christmas is normally quiet for us to well for me anyway lol I hope he does go though as he might find he will enjoy it

I usually got up to Wisconsin to leaf peek.....but this year I am running behind and the leaves are all spent....I will be going up next weekend. Usually we go for a ride and see the leaves...and stop at an apple orchard.....hopefully next year I'll be on schedule.

We don't celebrate Halloween, but yesterday we did something we do every October and that is to visit this fruit farm and when my older son sends me the pictures he took, (my camera is now toast..) I will share any that turned out. It is not much, mostly for little kids, but the real fun thing for me is to either walk or take the hayride to the pumpkin patch to pick our own pumpkins for my pies. Unfortunately this season was very dry, so there wasn't much to pick from, so instead we picked from the pile by the little store they have. They also have a bakery with very delicious pastries and of course we bought too much yesterday. This farm also has a not too small, but not huge corn maze and a couple fun things for my son, one is a monster slide and another is the bee line which like i said, once I get the pictures.... They also have goats and cows to pet and lots of apple tree where we can pick apples. Some people pick the apples and eat them, I won't, I take them to the store to have them weighed and buy them. Then we get to play in the hay, (terrible thing for those sensitive to hay, but I am not and my son and I love to play in it..lol) Of course after we left my husband made a comment on how our son is getting too old for the activities, and that maybe this will be our last year..:( But my son and I disagree and want to continue to go. So hopefully yesterday wasn't the last time..:(

Hi AmbiePam, I will probably help to carve a pumpkin with my son but other than that have nothing planned for Hallow'een but I love Christmastime and always go to the Christingle service at my local church and enjoy pitting decorations up in the house that I have collected over the years and most of all having all three of my children home with me on Christmas Day. Huggles. Ellie :D

that sounds like so much fun. its nice sometimes for people to just get out to do things with others. i keep telling my son that just to go to a book store and browse, maybe have a coffee in there, etc. anything to get him out to meet someone and get out of this rut of just working and hanging around home rest of the time waiting to talk to that dingbat in NY thats supposed to be his gf. i dont do much any more because of my disability but i would go hang in a book store. maybe not go walking around in a maze but if i wasnt disabled id surely love doing it.

My husband and I don’t have anything planned for ourselves as usual but our daughter and her cousin who are the same age are having a horse riding lesson in a couple of weeks as a birthday treat as they birthdays are twelve days apart. They are going to an enclosed arena and the instructor will teach them how to mount and dismount the horse and trot gallop etc.; it should be fun and part of me wishes I could do it too but alas it would be way too expensive to include the adults! My lucky daughter is going to a Halloween disco on Friday night as well; she’s only eight but gets out and about more than I do!

Halloween is now celebrated in this country but when my kids were young it was not done so. We don't really have seasons - just a littler cooler at night in the so called winter. I do hope that your Dad will do something fun with you. If her doesn't go then I hope that a friend will go with you. Blessings

It's funny that you should start this discussion because I went to a fun thing tonight, lol! Our church had the pre bible bowl study for the kids at one of the church members' house tonight at 5:00. Then, we had a fall festival for the adults and kids both at 6:00. That's what I mainly went for. We had things like chilli (not sure if that word has one or two Ls), hotdogs, soup, nachos and cheese, cookies, cakes, soft drinks, tea, etc. These people live in a log house and I love log houses! They also have a big farm with horses, which you know is right up my alley! They also had pumpkin carving for the children but I didn't stay for that. They also had a bungee (not sure if that's spelled right, either) for the children and the children also played games. The children all dressed up in their Halloween costumes and they looked so cute! We also had a hay ride through their farm and I enjoyed that! It wasn't all that scary, though! We just had one spook and that was it. It was still enjoyable, though, such a nice night for a hay ride. I went through a corn maze one time years ago at another church member's house. That was my first time to go through one and it was a lot of fun! We're going to have Trick Or Trunk for the kids after church on Halloween Night, which is where the adults dress up and decorate their car for Halloween, and pass out treats to the children. After that, we're going to have a cookout for the the whole congregation.

Not many plans for the fall just getting candy for halloween and cooking a big thanksgiving dinner

I was just out with my son yesterday and we were talking about the holidays and how I miss decorating for Halloween since no trick or treater's come by our house. I've decided to cancel all "festivities" this year. I'm the ONLY one in my family who cares at all about decorating, gift buying/making, cooking, etc. Over the last few years, I've been getting so depressed by trying to do it all myself. I used to have my youngest son around to at least help me with what I wanted to do but now he has moved too far away to help me and, since no one else wants to do it, I've simply given up. I would really rather not see the holidays come around now. I'm sure my family, small as it is, will be surprised when I don't begin decorating, cooking or baking cookies or anything else because they've never had a problem ENJOYING anything I've done, they just have an issue with helping me or even caring at all if I'm depressed about doing it all myself. That's tough shiit. I've asked and asked for help but get none so forget it. I may end up going to a friend's house for the holidays and leaving my family here to fend for themselves. As for now, all I know is that the leaves are falling and I'm the one who gets to clean them up. My husband hates yard work and refuses to do any, even when I remind him that I cannot do it all myself. He just tells me to hire someone. He's proven to me just how much (little) he cares about me or anything I care about. I used to love this time of year because we'd go out driving and looking at all the decorations, from Halloween through Christmas. I loved decorating, baking, cooking, the works. But, since no one else cares anymore (or I just realized that they never did care, it was only me), it's really not a nice time around here from October through New Year's.

I'm single, retired and live out in the country. I don't decorate for Halloween, fall, Easter, etc. any more. I still decorate (indoors only) for Christmas, although every year I say I'm not going to. There is a corn maze, pumpkin patches, etc. for the kids in the valley. I've seen several school buses parked there, so the kids are getting out to see them. I was at a party at my neighbors last night...now they decorated!! We had a great time.