My mom and I were discussing what I feed and don’t feed my children.
“Carson and Ella both love Honey Nut Cheerios, but they wish they could eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch everyday. They know I won’t let them, though,” I explained.
Being a doting grandmother she asked, “Why don’t you let those babies have Cinnamon Toast Crunch!?”
Of course I explained that I couldn’t possibly let them start their days with that much sugar and that I really try to make sure that they eat mostly healthy.
“My sanity depends on not having to scrape them off the ceiling, Mom.”
“You let them have a least some of their Halloween candy, I hope!” my mom asserted, apparently having forgotten the calamity of children high on sugar.
“Well, yeah, some of it. I took away all the Snickers, though, and put them in the freezer. Unfortunately Carson discovered them and couldn’t figure out how his Halloween candy ended up there,” I explained.
“So you let them have frozen Snickers?” she asked.
“Oh no, I froze them for me. I told Carson that it was rule that Snickers had to be frozen until they’re ready to eat, but that it would be a few more weeks until they’re ready. When the kids aren’t looking, I eat them.”
Judge away. I lie to my children and steal their candy. What of it?
Heather-Domestic Extraordinaire
Twitter: DExtraordinaire
November 10, 2009 at 1:27 am
“I lie to my children and steal their candy. What of it?” This is one of the many reasons that I love you!
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the planet of janet
Twitter: Janet Daw
November 10, 2009 at 1:41 am
well, DUH!!!!!
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Marylin
November 10, 2009 at 6:52 am
I think I need to learn from you… seriously.
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ClassyFabSarah
Twitter: ClassyFabSarah
November 10, 2009 at 7:24 am
I don’t know a mother in existence that doesn’t steal some of her kids candy. It’s in the Motherhood Code.
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Devan
November 10, 2009 at 7:51 am
I do the SAME thing with snickers. hehe
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Mama B
Twitter: PBinmyHair
November 10, 2009 at 8:02 am
If I didn’t lie to my kids, they would never eat anything healthy. Really sometimes you have to make them believe they are eating cheese! Oh and that Peanut butter cups are not for children, it’s “adult candy”.
triftimom
Twitter: mommyvents
November 10, 2009 at 8:07 am
a long while back i told them that reeses peanut butter cups where disgusting and a mommy only snack, my oldest is five and still believes that shit !!hahahhahha
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Heather
November 10, 2009 at 8:45 am
I lie to them too. It’s a mom thing.
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Marinka
Twitter: MarinkaNYC
November 10, 2009 at 8:48 am
My son also eats Honey Nut Cheerios and dreams of Cinnamon Toast crunch. I’m trying to convince myself that HNC has more nutritional value.
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Melani
November 10, 2009 at 9:26 am
It’s called the “Trick-or-Treating Tax”. Always good to teach the children about taxes from an early age.
deadale
November 10, 2009 at 9:34 am
i have to learn from you..
wow, thats something!!
interesting post as always..
Catherine @ Evolving Mommy
November 10, 2009 at 9:46 am
I am not judging one bit. My daughter had a few pieces of her candy and after I clean out the junk that I don’t like the rest was donated to Mommy. Unfortunately she didn’t have any snickers.
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Jen
November 10, 2009 at 9:46 am
When I was little my mom would buy these chocolate sundae cups and to keep my brother and I from asking for them she told us they were black bean soup. I believed her until I was about 13. I swore I would never do that sort of thing to my kids.
Now that I’m the grown up I never lie to my kids about ice cream. Ok, I may say that Butterfingers are made of soybeans and that peanut butter cups make you sick if you eat them before you’re 21 but that’s not lying. That’s …. preserving the stash.
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Leslie
Twitter: mymommysplace
November 10, 2009 at 10:12 am
If you’ve got a support group for that, I’m ready to join.
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Burgh Baby
November 10, 2009 at 10:33 am
I would think you were weird if you didn’t steal their candy. The real trick, though, is figuring out how to hide stolen candy from a spouse. I’m trying to figure that one out because the bastard found my frozen Snickers. The nerve!
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Laura
November 10, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Seriously- if grandma forgot the ill effects of sugar,..I suggest that you hop them up on Cinnamon Toast crunch and give them a few frozen snickers and promptly drop them off at Grandma’s house. I also think giving them a gatorade or a Propel would be good too. Make sure it’s a cold, rainy day. Grandma will learn quickly.
Trenches of Mommyhood
Twitter: sarahviz
November 10, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I let my boyz keep their favorite pieces of Halloween candy and the rest go to the “sick patients at Auntie Kate’s hospital.”
(Yeah, I bring it to my work.)
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Miss
November 10, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Hell this might make you the best mom ever in my opinion.
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Sue
November 10, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Eating their Halloween candy is an act of LOVE. You know, because you don’t want them to get all fat and diabetic. You’re just thinking about nutrition. Eating the Snickers is almost like a sacrifice. You’re a giver.
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Kat
November 10, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Hehehe.
I take handfuls of my kids’ candy and throw it in the garbage when they are sleeping. I know. I’m evil.
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Kelley
November 10, 2009 at 4:47 pm
That is brilliant.
I just hide mine in an old laundry detergent box. Like they will ever find it THERE!
Michele
November 10, 2009 at 4:47 pm
We kept a bucket of the candy and gave the grandparents a bucket to dole out as they saw fit. My husband has been in charge of our bucket doling (a treat after dinner and such.) One of my kids went for it, and my husband actually said, “Get your hands off mah bucket!” Guess I know who’s candy it is *now*.
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Michelle Smiles
November 10, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Until she was old enough to know the difference, I told Sabrina that the chocolate I was shoving in my face was chicken (because she hated chicken).
Mary
November 10, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I do the same thing with the Snickers- my plan if they found them was… I had no plan- thanks for the cover story!
Devilish Southern Belle
November 10, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I always took the Snickers, too…or the $100,000 bars. Those are so yummy, and my kids didn’t need them anyway.
sam {temptingmama}
Twitter: temptingmama
November 10, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Gawd I love you. I didn’t think I could love you more, but I do. I really, really do.
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Valerie M.
November 12, 2009 at 11:42 am
Haha!!! I came over to your blog from a post on Tales from the Fridge where Connie made one of the delish looking recipes you made. I had a fun visit here.
I hope your father is doing better now.
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Nicole
November 15, 2009 at 7:54 am
Love it. People are always giving my daughter candy for no reason at all. We are careful about her consumption and don’t really let her eat candy, so we eat it.
She totally understands. When I get bigger Mommy, she says. Great post.
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