AHHHH(in a scary Halloween way!)

So are any of your kids as candy drugged up as mine are? I feel like I have spent too many years rationing out the bags in attempt to avoid the candy and cavity goon overload but I have taken a new approach. Eat it all. Eat every last piece until it is all gone and you all lie around sick as dogs because you can't do anything else. Meanwhile I have time to clean up every tootsie roll. pixie stick, lollipop, laffy taffy wrapper strung around the house (they must think they are groovy house decor because no matter how many times I say put the wrappers in the trash I keep finding them everywhere!) Notice I don't find any chocolate candy wrappers because those have already been confiscated. Of course that is done only out of the kindness of my heart to avoid further tummy aches and caffeine addictions. I'M JUST KIDDING! (nobody send me any "You're a bad Mom" e-mails:>)!) That's just the way I feel sometimes. We have a lot of fun dressing up and meeting all the new people along the way. Sometimes it's just fun to be super silly. Happy Halloween! til next year...

For me?

At the parade this weekend everyone that went by threw candy. I mean everyone. A lot of candy. It wasn't until the last five minutes that Payten believed me when I said she could pick it up off of the ground. It took the whole parade for her to understand it really was for her. Walkers in the parade saw her standing there ever so politely so they would come up to her and hand her handfuls of the stuff. I'm glad it took her so long to figure it out though because once she did I couldn't keep her still. All the "politeness" was out the window and it became a brawl between my baby and 30 other kids to chase down the thrown candy. She's always been our "treats girl" so once she figured it out this was her kind of gig. Her and her brothers filled Brayden's backpack so now we don't have to do the trick or treating thing right?