Candy.  The amount of candy that has entered our household since Jackson came around is amazing.  I don’t remember having this problem before having babies, so I guess that having kids means candy suddenly becomes abundant.  There is candy at every holiday, every birthday party, every get-together, and it all ends up at our house!  And once it gets to our house, it just sits there.  Occasionally, one of us will grab something out of the mound-o-candy, but mostly, it’s left untouched.  Then, after looking at it and cursing the fact that it even made it into our house, I decide to just get rid of it.  I go through my “Purging of the Candy” ritual, that seems to happen way too often.  I feel like I’m being wasteful, but I would rather just get this stuff out of our house.  Jackson SERIOUSLY does not need to up his sugar intake.  He goes crazy on candy!  He’s got enough energy as it is.  The last thing he needs is a sugar rush, and the last thing we both need is the crash.  So, to just avoid the mood roller coaster all together, I try to get the candy out of our house.  And, I don’t even feel right about giving it to someone else.  The only place it belongs is in the trash.  It’s so wasteful, but I really feel that candy is better in the landfill than in my son’s stomach.  It has crossed my mind to take each piece of candy out of it’s wrapper for recycling.  Maybe I’ll take a picture of that when the next candy purge comes along.