It Only Hurts When I Blog

Greetings, Blogregation!

Here is Miss Savannah, looking cute in avocado fleece!

Heather - don't you wish all her jackets had cute matching hats like the hat in the photo of Roxy I sent?

I looked for a cute jacket/hat combination at Target yesterday and wasn't crazy about what they had.

I need to go research a failed job overnight at work, but since it isn't one of the important ones, I'm not in a hurry.

Anyway - on to the topic of the day - Halloween Trick or Treat Faux Pas.

The little girl next door came over to sell us some 'school fundraiser' stuff yesterday. (To be NICE, I spent $26!)

I mentioned Halloween. She said her brother wasn't going to go trick or treating this year. She said that was OK because she always gave him her candy that contained NUTS. Turns out she has one of those nut allergies, and I never knew!

She said that she'd grown out of being sensitive to being near nuts, she just couldn't eat them. She also said she can eat pecans, but I wouldn't even go there. I sent her back home with a handful of individually wrapped Twizzler licorice sticks that I had in the house.

Guess what else I bought for trick or treat candy?? Peanut M&M's! Sheesh.

Good grief, Charlie Brown. I wonder what I have been giving them for the past 6 years? Probably plenty of candy with NUTS in it, because that's what I like!

Two questions:

First question - what causes all these nut allergies in kids nowadays? I thought I heard that it was because we parents ate so much peanut butter, and so many nut oils the manufacturers use. Is that true?

Second question - what did YOU buy for Halloween candy, and did you avoid nuts? I guess I will from now on!

I could switch from M&Ms to Kit Kats or Mounds bars - both are favorites. My 'regular' choices include almond joys (nuts), peanut butter cups (peanut butter), baby ruths (nuts), butterfingers (peanut butter) and other nut-intensive candy.

Ahhh - I just remembered that for the past couple of years I also had those 'bats and jacks' Halloween pretzels available for trick or treat! Saved by the pretzels! I need to go see if Sams Club has any of those.

TTFN!

# posted by Karen @ 10/26/2008 07:35:00 AM