But luckily I'm not a good mom, and I canceled Halloween this year. Yep, flat out vetoed it with my executive mom power after Lily threw an epic tantrum over not getting to eat candy before dinner. There was weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth, and to complete the Biblical visual, me in sackcloth and ashes wondering what I did to deserve this. Oh right, I kept her up past her bedtime for like three nights in a row prior to Halloween. Woops.
So Halloween was canceled and we didn't get her in her costume or trick or treat, and I was such a buzzkill that I didn't even put a bowl of candy out for the other kids so now I have a bunch of Halloween candy that I don't want. So come to my house and eat some.
I'll try again next year.
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hehehe you are awesome!
That must have been some tantrum, because Halloween is your FAVORITE holiday Sara!
We actually skipped our main Halloween event this year too (the MCW trick-or-treating), simply because I did not want any more candy in the house. We had already done the Halloween playgroup and Boo at the Zoo, plus we handed out candy to trick-or-treaters, and I thought that was enough. The candy thing created too many issues EVERY DAY with both Cole and Benson. They stopped eating their good, home-cooked meals because they already filled up on M&Ms. They sobbed if I didn't give them candy. It took them forever to fall asleep for naps and night time because of their sugar high. I'd hide the candy, and later find wrappers all over the place after Benson discovered the hiding spot. I'm embarrassed that Cole's main words these days are, "treat? need treat." I'm sure due to my SLP background, I want to reinforce any words he says, so I'd let him choose a treat whenever he said that, and it just became too much! So, we skipped the MCW trick-or-treating, and now we are back to normal. I felt like a scrooge, but it just caused too many issues.
Maybe one day our kids will be responsible with eating candy... ha!
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