CANDY!!

It is so fun when you can see your spouse in your children!! Joseph and Alan are alike in so many ways. And the scene I witnessed today confirmed this fact.

History: When Alan and I had been married for a little over a year. I had the opportunity to help the Easter bunny and had gotten all of our favorites. I could not believe how much candy and goodies we got. I am one that like those Whopper robin eggs and black jelly beans. The rest of the Easter candy I can live without. Alan on the other hand loves it all. It had been probably 2 to 3 weeks since Easter and I still had candy left over (so I thought). I was at school thinking about those robin eggs and was excited to go home and partake. I got home and went to where I had left them. There were none left. I was outraged, I just stood there and could not believe it. I armed myself with my black jelly beans and went to look for the culprit. I found him in our closet (yes, he was hiding) with a huge grin on his face. I just started throwing black jelly beans at him along with a few chosen words.

Fast forward to the present: Alan packing his school bag with me talking to him and Joseph just standing around. Alan gets this look on his face, like he can't believe what he is seeing. He looks at Joseph and pulls out this mangled wrapper of what use to be a role of mints. Joseph just smiles as Alan asked if he ate all of them. I had to run out of the room because I was laughing so hard and Alan was being so serious and I wanted Joseph to take him seriously. I listened to Alan tell him that it's not nice and that he needed to pay him in toys for eating his candy. When Joseph passed me to go get the toys he gave me this ear to ear grin as though it was well worth it! I reminded Alan of the moment in time that he was caught having stolen someone else's candy! Paybacks are always sweet, especially when candy is involved, and it always comes around!!