Halloween may be over, but the insane sugar rush is not! Does anyone else find the whole Halloween thing a little odd??? I mean as a kid it is the BEST time ever - dress up in a cool costume and get TONS of candy!!!!! But as an adult, you go buy tons of candy (12 bags for me this year!!!) and hope it all gets handed out so you are not tempted to eat any of the leftovers - cuz you know you only buy the stuff you would want to eat should there be any leftovers!! Then you send your kids out to have their fun and BAM! Now you have 12 bags of candy again! Or more, depending on how many kids you have, in my case it feels like 30 bags!!! Now don't get me wrong, I do love the idea of having many choices of candy bars and sweets to 'steal' from my kids! But the constant begging for more candy from my kids is a little much! I take their candy away after they are done sorting, trading and eating until they are sick. But the next day is always a tough day. All they want is candy and when they are told no (at 6:30 in the morning!!!), they throw these insane fits, throwing themselves on the floor, kicking and screaming and crying. 'But I want more candy!!!' So, how long does it take to come down from this sugar high? Not sure, still there... Hopefully we come down soon!
Oh, I think I want a Butterfinger... What's your favorite???
5 comments:
100 Grand. I guess I am lucky that I only have one kid begging for candy and he's 2. I have to buy the candy from Kate since she doesn't like it. So weird. And I do buy the candy I don't like so that I am not as tempted to eat it. Eventually I send the remainders with Alan to work. About the time I am so sick of eating candy all day.
My friend blogged a great idea. Her kids get choose 2 pieces of candy for the next week and then they put the rest out for the Great Pumpkin to come and get. He, in exchange, leaves them something (in this case the new Tinkerbell movie). I think I might be giving the Great Pumpkin a call to see if he is doing any late pickup because I am tired of hearing the "Mom, can I have one more piece of candy?" thing constantly!
BTW: cute blog! Your kids have grown so much since we saw them....11 months ago!
Anything reese's!
Brian
This year...anything chocolate. However now I am SICK and never want to see candy again. I liked the "Great Pumpkin" idea. However, the candy at our house just might mysteriously disappear! BTW -- happy to have found your blog through Carri's!
A forgotten anecdote, one of our neighbors was passing out little toys. I thought how nice it was that they spent money on something that would keep on giving. When we got home Teresa informed me that she noticed that Sabrina already had some of the toys she saw in that basket. Low and behold she did... She got them from Wendy's, McDonald's and Carl's Jr. Way to recycle neighbor.
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