Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Halloween - Part 3

Checking out the Candy Stash!

Youwill notice in the pictures that it is fully daytime and my kids are not in their costumes. As per my quest to become the meanest Mom ever (or so my kids think - cause I make them do chores) I made them wait until the following morning to sort through their stuff. You can't tell from the picture, but Jayden came back with the most stuff. For some reason, people are a sucker for the baby in the family. Spencer was very thoughtful trying to pick out his "special" treats. I let the kids pick out their five favorites that were "off limits". Then the rest of the candy was dumped into a community bag for all to share.
Jenna is carefully sorting her candies just like Melissa and Spencer did.


Melissa went trick or treating around our neighborhood and also around her friend's neighborhood, so she had quite a haul. Most of it chocolate, which is always a good thing.


It's funny that they were so concerned about their "special" treats because I have learned that they don't even all like the same stuff. Jenna loves the laffy taffys and fruity flavored tootsie rolls that are usually the last things left in the bag at the end. Jayden saved smarties which the other kids could care less about. Melissa saved all of the sour stuff. And Spencer saved Butterfingers which besides Steve, the others would choose other stuff first. But it made it so they didn't mind dumping it all together, so all was happy.


1 comment:

Lhone said...

What a good idea about the community bag. Ours ends up that way because no one can remember who's bag was who's, but that would cause less fighting.