This Is Halloween
#ilovehalloween👻 #spookyseason Sooo my Girl and I decided we needed a day out. Even though I am really under the weather, this week my daughter let me and doctor in on her mental health. Everyone is probably like what a 5 year old Mental health? What parenting are you using? Easy my open door no judgement policy parenting. Because I also suffered from mental health at her age and waited until my early 20s to deal with them and wanted to help at early age. So boom parenting! Anyways, we went and let her have her own card put funds on it and let her feel as if she actually was VIP. So her first stop for today was the Halloween store. Yeah she wanted to take pictures and try on every costume so I let her because that’s the parent I am. But the picture she really wanted us to post today was the one of her outside with Michael. She said she wanted to buy the blowup and to ask the vendor how much it was I asked and she said I got the monies lol. I asked them to fake like she was purchasing it. And they said now you can buy as many times to come by and picture yourself with Michael so she has told her friend that she purchased Michael today lol moral of the story is I do whatever it takes to make my daughter happy but maybe that little thing was a little excessive😂😂#halloweenisalifestyle #momshame?
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