It’s a week after Halloween, and we’re down to the bottom of my kid’s candy bags, sifting through the empty wrappers and stale Tootsie Rolls hoping to find that last Snickers, and coming up only with Milk Ways and Three Musketeers. (No one in our house ever eats those.)
After that, the only candies left are the Starbursts, Gummy Bears and other pure sugar treats that only a kid can love. As far as we grown-ups are concerned, once the good chocolate is gone, it’s all over. Now the kids can finally have the candy to themselves.
What’s left in your kid’s bags?
Category: Food
Ooh those Reece’s peanutty things. I really love them! When Daughter slopes off to NYC for her pre-holidays trip, I will not only be sending her to Bed Bath & Beyond (towels) and Macy’s (Chanel 22, not available here or in France), but instructing her to bring me back a mega bag of those peanut cups. Mmmm.
Thank you for your good wishes. My consultant is helping me get funding to send me to Europe for intensive therapy, as we don’t have many specialist lymphodoema facilities here.
Sour candy is all that’s left in Son’s bag. He got only 3 pieces of chocolate – I gave him one mini Reese’s and ate the others myself. But I don’t like sour stuff, and I’m afraid it might scare him away from candy forever. Hey, that’s not a bad idea…I may try it out!
My kids (3 of them ages 10, 7, 4) still have a TREMENDOUS amount of candy left, but the household left overs are miraculously gone. Considering that neither me nor my wife admit to consuming the candy, the only logical conclusion is to blame the kids and begin to charge them for the lost candy. They have also been particularly rebelious this year with the “the house gets 10%” rule. Seems it’s time for a little intimidation to get things back on track.
For example, yesterday my 7 year old was acting up, got sent to his room. So, I took out his candy, sat in the hallway outside his door and organized his candy in front of him making a pile of candy that “the house” would reasonably accept as payment for his egregious acts. It was sheer pleasure and torment at the same time. (I should write a self-help book on parenting, don’t ya think?)
Gratefully, my 10 year old is getting an “appliance” to help space his teeth, so chewing things are no longer an option for him. However, behind my back they have all been trading and cutting me out. Time to raid those trading session next…
I’ll be sure to keep yo informed!
Correction to the above…my 10 year old will get an appliance to space his teeth so CHEWY things are no longer an option.
constu seeku layo dayo