Solving the Sugar Rush
9 Nov
This year though, there isn’t as much candy to be had. Most of the stuff the kids really wanted got eaten right away and then the dad and I got into the candy which is always fun for us.
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Still, there is a bucket on top of my fridge that is halfway full with candy that will probably never get eaten or would probably take us to Easter to get through.
That’s just too long for candy to sit in my house if you ask my opinion.
Ordinarily if Brian was working, he’d grab a handful each night to take to work with him and set out for the guys he works with (nothing like a little sugar rush motivation to keep the crew working!) Unfortunately, he’s at home (I know I mentioned on Twitter that he had gone back to work. More about that another time), so I’m stuck with candy to rot my teeth and get fat on.
This mama will not have that!
Plus, it’s a crime to waste candy.
I came up with a very simple solution to the mass sugar rush going on in my house, that I KNOW a lot of people are already doing but when I came up with it all on my own, I was just damn proud of myself.
My brother is currently serving in Afghanistan and he missed Halloween this year. I love him and miss his presence here at home every day. I’ve decided that there’s nothing better than sending him and his unit our candy. Now of course I don’t think that there’s enough there for EVERYONE, so I’m going to pad the package of sweetness a little more by picking up an extra bag of candy (or two) to send.
Feel free to copy off of me and send your leftover Halloween candy to a soldier you know but keep in mind a few things:
chocolate is going to melt. It’s going to AFGHANISTAN (or Iraq) after all. It’s not exactly the North Pole there.
Other candies, such as Starburst, may not travel well either. What you send has to stand up to the heat.
If you decide not to send candy but still want to send them some FLAVAH from home, my brother swears by Gatorade and the individual G2 packets are Teh Awesome. I received some of them from BlogHer this year and they are perfect for travel and for the soldiers’ bottles of water.
Do you have any suggestions for what candy we should send my brother?
If you’d like, please contact me nichole{AT}theguiltyparent{DOT}com and I will share his address so you can send candy to his troop as well!
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