Allison - All growed up
We bought pumpkins today & carved them tonight. I helped Shelby & Annie do theirs before dinner. After dinner, I cut the top off of Allisons & had her scoop it all out. Then, I scraped the last hanging bits off & taped the pattern on for her.
She poked the pattern (and broke the poker while she was at it). I was busy doing other stuff when she came in with it all poked. I told her ‘the knife-thingy is right there, if you want to get started’. She did it all herself.
After they were all done, we went outside, put them on the steps & lit them. We were standing at the end of the sidewalk admiring them all & she said to me, “I knew you didn’t think of me as a kid anymore, when you told me to carve my own pumpkin”.
We laughed & called it a kind of rite of passage.
Thing is, I didn’t even really think about it at the time. I think she carved some of hers by herself last year, anyway. But, to her, it was important.
I’m glad she thinks of herself as mature, as travelling over to the grown-up side of life. That’s the rite of passage, right there.
