Thursday, November 4, 2010

Anybody?


Anybody else threaten to throw away all the Halloween candy this week if one more child asked if they could have just one more piece?!!

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Anybody else have the kid who had to try asking for a piece of candy after breakfast on Monday morning? In our house that would be the 3 year old. Nice try, Buddy, but no, no candy until at least after lunch!

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Anybody else consider it their motherly responsibility to pick out and eat all the Reese's peanut butter cups right away from the candy stash since there is a child in the house allergic to peanuts? Better to get those out of the way right off the bat so nobody accidentally eats them who can't have peanuts -- just protecting my child!

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Anybody else have kids who were suddenly wheeling and dealing the Halloween candy with each other? "I'll trade you one Twizzlers plus one Laffy Taffy for your jelly beans." "I'll give you 3 M&Ms if you give me half of your Kit Kat."

Just imagine the negotiation skills they're acquiring!

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Anybody else cringe when their 2nd grader came home from school and said, "I have good news and bad news about my next school project."

Me: "What?!! Didn't we just do a project?"

My 2nd grader: "The good news is, we have all month to work on it. The bad news is, we're working on it only at school so you can't help me with it."

Me: (extreme happy dancing on the inside before lying to my kid) "Yeah, that is bad news."

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Anybody else hate it when you are holding a "40% Off Any One Regular Price Item" coupon but the thing you want to buy is on sale for 10% off? In fact everything in the store appears to be 10 or 20% off and the coupon you meticulously cut from the Sunday paper and carefully stored in your purse, and managed to find again amid the old grocery lists, spider rings, and used Kleenex, seems to be mocking you because it is actually next to impossible to find anything in the store that is regular price! And should you happen upon the magic item that is full price, you're tempted to buy it just to be able to use the 40% off coupon even if it is not at all what you came shopping for. Tell me I'm not alone here!

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Anybody else look under their 3 year old's bed and find this:


Me to the 3 year old: "Why are all your toys crammed under the bed?"

The 3 year old: "That's my garage."


I made him scoot under the bed and get every last thing out. He got on all fours and protested that he couldn't fit under the bed. My reply? "Sure you can, just lie on your tummy and slither like a snake." And that's what he had to do until it was all cleared out.

We'll see if all the effort to clean up the under-the-bed mess keeps him from doing it again!

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Have a wonderful weekend and if you're somewhere that observes "Fall-back", enjoy the extra hour of sleep or use that extra hour to make this adorable Thanksgiving shirt or ruffle up one of your sweaters or transform some of your regular jeans into skinny jeans!

It will likely take me the full hour to decide which of those options I'd most like to do during my extra hour!

Mommy's Idea

10 comments:

  1. Kudos to that teacher who is actually assigning a project and seeing that the kids do it themselves instead of the parents! That's how it should be!

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  2. The Annual Halloween Candy Barter Session was the best part of Halloween when I was little!

    I did my parental duty and found the tootsie pops, tootsie rolls, and milk duds that are just too dangerous for my kid to eat. It was only right that I removed all choking hazards from his bucket.

    My parents were mean and always made me do projects myself. I hope I'm just as mean when Charlie is old enough for projects!

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  3. Again with the memory lane, haha...My kids barter sessions with their Halloween candy were legendary at our house..oh how they loved them..and those projects? What I would have given for that news of it was to be done at school...oh happy day. And the garage under the bed? Believe it or not I have heard that same remark, haha...I actually thought it was pretty smart...And the 40% off coupon is one of my biggest beefs...They ALWAYS do that I tell you. Lure you to the store with the promise of 40% off (I have even seen them do 50%) and then the whole store practically is already on sale. Soo frustrating. I knew their point was to just get you in there to increase their chances you'd buy SOMETHING...soooo in defiance I wouldn't, haha...OH, and I intend to sleep that extra hour away...Have a good week-end. HUGS

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  4. I was never allowed any gum, so that was always taken out immediately. Then my mother's favorite candy was Snickers, so those immediately vanished. The rest was probably consumed within a day or two because I can't have candy in any quantity without eating all of it. Even today LOL Good thing I don't trick or treat anymore!

    I just went through that regular price thing with my mother. We were trying to use her coupon and there wasn't anything, it seemed, that wasn't already on sale.

    Kristin - The Goat

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  5. I'm with you on the coupon issue, for sure.

    And those jeans & sweater tutorials are great!

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  6. Wow, its all so familiar!! Except the candy thing. We make them dump it all into one big bag, first come first serve. Then it sits atop the fridge and I "inspect" it for danger....daily. I think I need to get rid of it just so I am not eating it all.

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  7. That's my garage! I love it!
    I always hated school projects. Yes, I think projects should be done at school and the teacher should have to make the teeny tiny diaramas and stir pots of salt dough on the stove.

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  8. Yay, for the project that will be done at school!!!

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  9. My sisters and I did the candy negotiating thing when we were kids on Halloween night. So fun! (I was the only one who liked candy corn or licorice.) It's actually one of the things I'm sad my kids are missing out on. Because of my son's food allergies (no corn syrup!), I trade my kids a toy for all their candy. (And hide the good stuff in my closet and eat in secret, that's not weird, is it? LOL)

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  10. this made me laugh out loud!!! just great. i can SOOOOO relate!!

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