Call for desperate measures. Normally the babies do not get any candy, chocolate, or other sweets ( I know Dad, this is child abuse ). BUT (this is a very recent but) I’ve found when I REALLY need to get something done I can plop the babies down, give them a couple of chocolate chips or chocolate covered raisins and they’ll be happy long enough for me to run around like a chicken with my head dangling off. This is a serious problem…I now have to sneak and eat my raisins (or other candy) because they know how yummy delicious they are and want them if they see them. Oops. This is the start of my closet chocolate addiction. I will have to hide in the closet to eat any chocolate!!!! I tried to tell Jeff to put a child safety latch on my candy drawer, but he refused so I may also have to find a better hiding spot for ALL OF THE CANDY! Holy SHIT do you see this candy drawer. It is almost a little embarrassing. Almost, if it weren’t all so YUMMY!
Let’s take an inventory shall we…….
Andes Mints - YUMMM
Two bags of Twizzler Bites
Sandwich bag of Peanut M&M’s
2 boxes of Milk Duds plus one sandwich bag of Milk Duds
Sandwich bag of Junior Mints
1/2 of a KING size Caramello
Sandwich bag of Hershey’s Hugs/Kisses
and tons of gum/mints/hard candies
And the sad thing is that is not even all of it….don’t forget the ENORMOUS container of chocolate covered raisins that are 1/2 gone now. I really have to wonder why I’m not gaining weight with the amount of crap I’m consuming.
So later in the afternoon that I bribed the babies with candy we had color time. The babies are still in the ‘if you’re not looking we will eat the crayons’ phase and of course I wasn’t looking. Next thing I know Shenzie comes running over to me with her mouth covered in some sort of dark ick. Me, being the great detective that I am deduced she had eaten a crayon. Not just any crayon mind you. The brown crayon that broke, that I THREW IN THE GARBAGE, where she got it out thinking it was a chocolate covered raisin. I chased her around and had to pry the “raisin” from her mouth. Poor Poor Girl, don’t you know that chocolate tastes 100x better than a silly brown wax crayon?!?
July 31st, 2008 at 7:50 am
We pretty much can’t eat anything in front of the boys without them wanting to try it, thikning it is going to be tasty. I opened a jar of bruscetta topping and Nate said he wanted to eat it. I let him dig in and he loved it. He also loved salt, pepper, and soy sauce.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:32 am
I cannot BELIEVE you can have that drawer in your house and show any self-restraint.
If I had that at home and was in the house with the kiddos all day, I would consume
it all in 24 hours. Seriously, I have no control when it comes to chocolate.
Like Laura the kiddos want whatever we have. Any time I shake salt on my plate I have
to pretend to do it for them. I’ve given up eating anything they can’t have a while
ago (though I do sometimes eat sushi and they keep saying “eat mama tuchi!”
July 31st, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I totally have a candy drawer!
Though for me right now I cannot get enough chocolate covered licorice.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
That’s so funny about the crayon. Kids are crazy. Madeline has always been really good about not putting strange things in her mouth, except chalk. She tries to eat all of the chalk. I just don’t understand.