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A Note From Your Publisher

By Vicki Little, Macaroni Kid Aurora Publisher October 29, 2014
It is finally here! The 2014 Macaroni Kid GOLD Daisy (formerly Family Choice) Awards! Now is your time to tell me all of your favorite places to Entertain, Enrich and EXHAUST your kids!

What are your plans for this Friday? Going out trick or treating, or maybe to your local mall for some candy? Haunted house or a corn maze? This year I took my children to Rock Creek Farms where my husband and I used to go every year. The last year we went I was pregnant with my oldest. It was fun to walk the fields again, searching for that perfect pumpkin. My son picked out one that was shaped perfectly to make a Frankenstein, and my daughter chose one that didn't have any imperfections on it at all. When it came time to carve them, they decided they had to paint them as well. All of this only cost me $12. Memories mean so much more to me than toys or shows or video games. They got to go on the free bouncy pumpkin but I didn't pay for the water ball. They were disappointed, I am sure. But that is the way it is. And when I hear my kids say "remember last year we used tape to make funny faces while we carved pumpkins" I know I have done one part of this mom thing right. They won't remember not going in that water ball, but they will remember painting their pumpkins and putting bolts in them.

Make some fun family memories this week, and have a fun and SAFE Halloween!
Vicki

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