our kids lack the normal self governing mechanism that would deter them from eating all their halloween candy in one sitting. we know this to be true because the few times we’ve let them have unlimited access to junk food we’ve had vomiting kids soon after.

so, for the past two weeks we’ve gotten a lot of requests to dive in to the candy bag we put up on top of the refrigerator and we’ve been pretty easy about saying yes. but as the number of requests seemed to increase i got tired of hearing it and started throwing candy out if i got too many requests in a row (only the crappy candy that no one liked, but i didn’t let them in on that fact).

that worked for a couple of days, but then logan changed strategy. instead of asking for candy twice an hour she would say “aren’t you proud i haven’t asked for anything on top of the refrigerator” three to four times an hour…