And on that note…I wish you a Happy Halloween…muahhahaha….heh.
For many of you that have read the Skinny Bitch books, you’ve heard the “Sugar is the Devil” phrase before. Well, it is definitely my personal devil. Ever since my LA trip last week, I have been eating candy with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Very counter-intuitive to what I usually preach. Candy is usually not in my house because I cannot control myself. My default brain setting in the candy file is “must eat it til its gone!” And the pioneer ancestry/Jiminy Cricket in my brain forbids me to throw it away….because that would just be too wasteful (how dumb is that line of thinking…) Not rational. Must override.
Of course I have treats in my house, its just that I find candy (any type of candy) completely addicting. Is it the sugar, the wrapper, the doing something “naughty”? Does this happen to anyone else?! Anyway, I’m so glad today is Halloween so that this candy binging nonsense can stop, at least until Christmas.
We had the usual oxymoronic church Halloween Party on Saturday, and Landon had a great time looking at all the costumes and being the little monkey.
He enjoyed to sports games, as usual.
He was completely star-struck by the “football player.” PML spotted mini-Joe Montana from across the crowded parking lot and yelled “OOOHHH! Football Player” as he held my hand and drug me the entire 20 yards to the kid. Then he stood very shyly, but as close to him as possible. The 6 year-old definitely thought it was awkward. Toddler stalker. I asked young Joe of he could give Landon a “high-five” and he agreed at which point Landon’s countenance changed like he just experienced the most amazing moment of his life. “Get DAD!” he yelled.
PML ran to Rod and drug him all the way back to the football player, pointing at him, and making facial expressions like, “Can you even freaking believe that a REAL football player is here?!” all while trying to be as covert as possible with his glee. Nothing like the pure excitement and happiness from a child. This reason alone is enough for me to willingly go through 9 months of torturous Hell to get a child here.
Very fascinated by the witch fingers. And of course, he had more candy and treats than I think he’s ever eaten in his life.
Happy Halloween!
What are your traditions with Halloween candy? How do you divvy it up to your kids (or yourself)? Do you just let them have at it cart blanche? Ration it? Or just throw that crap away? This is my first year having to deal with it for my little one, I’d love your advice.
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I’m definitely one of those “must eat all the candy/ice cream/cake so it won’t be here anymore” people. I know–it makes no sense.
What is that about?! Is it a mormon thing? I’ve spoken to a few other friends and they say the same thing. Were all of our parents consistent with the drumbeat of “eat everything on the plate”? This is totally my problem too. I’ve learned to fix this in the area of actual food, but desserts are really hard for me to “slowly take a step back and walk away”
Oh, and I have no idea what we’ll do with Graham’s candy. Probably hide it and eat 90% of it ourselves. In the future, though, I plan to let the kid have it all and learn to ration on his own.
That’s what my parents did for us. I would be eating candy til January…I wish I could ration it like that now.
That is an adorable costume, he is cute as can be!
Our son is 5, and for the candy we do a few (maybe 2-3) a day. He usually gets burned out on it though within a week, so then I freeze the chocolate and take the rest to work. Out of sight, out of mind!
I really like this Idea. Freezing the chocolate might be a way for me to appease my “don’t be wasteful” conscience. I like that it’s out of sight for everyone…but it’s still there in case an unexpected craving pops up.
Exactly! And since its frozen, it takes longer to thaw and eat. It lasts longer, so you feel like you’ve had more than you really did!
I’m a little too controlling in the candy arena. I guess that”s what thousands of $ in dentist bills will do to you! I took all the candy and hid it last night. Today I’ll let the kids dump out their bags and pick 10 pieces each which will go in a ziploc with their name on it. (Which I also keep out of reach and get it out as “dessert” after meals.) The rest will go into a community bucket that I use as bribery for the next month or so. And most of the good stuff that I love will go with Kirt to work. He’s quite popular at the office the week after Halloween!
Landon is one ADORABLE monkey!
Thanks for the monkey costume! He was so cute.
It was nice to make him be a snuggly creature one more year before he turns into a football play or spiderman. Ha…I bet the office loves the candy. Good idea.
Love the monkey costume!! I know sugar is the devil, but I think I would have wasted away long ago without it. Sadly, it’s probably at the bottom of my food pyramid, haha. By the way, I’m making that harvest soup for sure!!
You will love the harvest soup. it really is to die for.