I’m Great at Concealing – Not Proud, but Great Even Still

I don’t let my children have a lot of sugary products.  And, if you have taken a look at me lately, I don’t need the sugary products myself.  However, every now and again, we buy something that is sure to cause me great pain.  We hide candy but even my kids have found the candy.  We once hid left over Halloween in a box of rice on the top shelf in the pantry.  Walker was 3, Jace was 1.  While I was on the phone with a service repair man, I heard the two of them discussing the candy they had “found”.

Now, you don’t just “find” candy in a box of rice on the top shelf of a pantry that you can’t reach without first getting a chair, climbing onto the cabinet and then reaching around to climb on the shelves in the pantry.  I’m sorry, that is not “I just happen to find….” material.  Either way, while on hold, I caught a glimpse of the two running behind me and I hear the oldest one say, “hurry up, run before she see’s us”. 

Yea, he just happened to find it.  When was the last time you looked in a box of rice and found candy?  When my mom sits with them for us to do something like grocery shop, they will show her where the candy is hid and ask her to get it for them.  If she tells them no (and believe it or not, every once in a blue moon she does tell them no), they will tell her, “c’mon Nanny, just get the candy down, we’ll put it back before they get home”.

And, the nerve of that woman?  She will oblige them.  I’m kidding, my mom is great with the kids, but if they never ever get another sugary treat at home, they get enough at my mom’s house to last a lifetime.  And, the best part, at her house they don’t have to climb the pantry shelves and look in a box of rice for it.  It’s just right there, in plain sight, begging for their little grubby hands to grab it.

So, yea, we don’t buy stuff like that very often.  One reason is because if I can beat the kids to it, I’ll eat every last piece in the middle of the night and never even know I’ve done it.  I’ve seen entire boxes of Krispy Kreme Donuts disappear over night and have no clue that I was the culprit.

My boys…..they come by it honestly.

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