Tuesday, October 21, 2008

No title? It must have been the chocolate!



This is the time of the year when the days get shorter, it gets dark earlier, and the time speeds by in a haze of chocolate smears and shiny candy wrappers.


And the kids get excited too!


I bought a bag of Halloween candy because I wanted some suckers. I like Tootsie Pops, okay? With the Tootsie Roll center. Well it was quickly gone through, the suckers went first of course. My son took a look at the bag as if I had done a poor job of acquiring the
correct kind and volume of sweets for the upcoming holiday. "I hope you know I am going to be getting WAY more candy than that." He said disapprovingly.

Last night Andy came home with 2 grocery bags stuffed to bursting with what he had decided was the right candy. He poured some from each bag into a big orange plastic Halloween bowl until he had a mix of chocolate candy bars of every kind, fruit chews, peanut butter bits (did I mention chocolate?
) and of course, suckers. Chocolate covered things and taffy and toffee, miniature boxes and bags and stuff on a stick. Yesterday was October 20th. 11 days before Halloween. The candy is already in a bowl and accessible to peruse whenever we ( I ) want to.

I think my son is trying to kill me.


. . . either that - or he's got dibs on the jeans I'll out-grow!!!







. . . and this has been picked over already. It's going to get ugly.



6 comments:

  1. You crack me up!!
    Pass me a little chocolate bar anything will do.... humm... and a Twizlers too. Thank you ...LOL!!
    Diane

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  2. I wouldn't be able to live in your house right now.

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  3. That is a lot of sweeties!

    Hope you don't have to become too familiar with your dentist as well!

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  4. I know! Especially since someone finally figured out there is a big market for dark chocolate (my favorite)so all the candy bars are starting to come in milk OR dark chocolate. Be still my heart ...
    literally.

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  5. I can relate. In my household, we buy extra too! Perhaps the Halloween candy makers finally realised is not just for kids. My favourite is dark chocolate too.

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  6. E gads....I am already hauling around way too many extra lbs...and now its candy season and I have NO will power....I love Milky Way bars.....

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