This amazing fairy first appeared in my life after my eldest son's first Halloween. I was blown away by the volume of candy that my one year old came back from Trick-or Treating with. Although not so much a problem that year(expect for the fact that I ate it), I knew that this was a situation that would need a good solution.
Enter the Halloween Fairy.
My dear friend Shannon told me about this amazing creature. The Halloween Fairy comes during the night after you go trick-or-treating. She takes away the candy and leaves behind a cool toy. Depending on the house, sometimes the kiddo's can pick out a few favorite pieces of candy and leave the majority for the fairy to take away.
Six years and two more kids later and the Halloween Fairy is still going strong. She saves me the problem of having to explain to L why B gets to eat all his candy and he doesn't. With the added bonus of saving me from stealing 3/4 of the candy myself. I don't need the kind of pressure having 300 mini Snickers in a house causes on my will power.
I apologize for not getting this out prior to Halloween, but the good news is that the Halloween Fairy is very flexible. She makes house calls even after Oct. 31.
Happy Halloween!
Where does she take the candy? Mommy's nightstand drawer? Because that would just be dangerous, lol.
ReplyDeleteI like this idea and think we'll have to incorporate it somehow in our house. We don't do Santa or the tooth fairy or etc, but maybe we could just have the kids trade in for something?
ReplyDeleteUp until now it has been relatively easy to have my daughter be able to eat things my son can't, but now he's getting old enough (he's 20mths) where he wants what Sissy has but doesn't understand why he can't have it. We're just beginning to try and figure out how to handle it all with the two of them.
My husband and I definitely went through it and took a small stash each! But the bulk of the goods went up to his office. I have zero self control when it comes to Halloween candy!
ReplyDeleteAnd Kristen, you definitely can use the idea behind the Halloween Fairy without the Fairy. I have found the boys are more excited about getting a new toy/book than hanging on to all the candy.
This is a great idea. As for the question about what to do with it all after the fairy takes it... We donated 5 lbs of candy to a local dentist who ships it all overseas to the troops.
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