welcome to my life...the story continues

I learn something new every day.

I am ashamed to say that I am a pumpkin carving control freak. I had no idea. Yesterday, Tyler walked away mad at me because I was lecturing him on the proper lid cutting procedure. And Brianna said " See, Mom, this is why we are scared to carve pumpkins around you."
Huh?
Yes, people, my kids would rather poke out their eyeballs than have me carve pumpkins with them. Apparently, this has been a problem for many years.
We did the cute face carvings when they were little. Then I discovered the design books to carve cool scenes. After that, I would carve my pumpkins in the dead of night so no one could do it with me.
Seriously.
But, to be nice...I let Tyler help carve my haunted house design. And turned away when he just went sawing willy-nilly by the windows. Which is delicate work, BTW.
I have serious issues.