4 f***ing advent calendars

[MascaraOHara]

what are people thinking!?!?!

dd is severly p'd with me because I won't let her have them all.

i anm bit honsely you do have a lot to do ali,

grrr
dortas eh?

Mascara, I have a small shop opposite me & I get my daily paper there, each time I go in they give DD a Chubba chubb lolly. I have tried to say, very politely, no thank you, but they insist "for later then". (They are a lovely couple, couldn't have children so spoil all the regular ones that go in.)

I put it away & she forgets about it. I know what you mean about offending people, it is hard. I do now avoid the shop as much as I can when I have to take her out with me & get my paper elsewhere, which is a shame as they are so close & so nice.

alibubbles, No I don't think they do grow up. My DH is 37 & still had a choccie advent calender!

alibubbles - sent ds1 his Glasgow Rangers Advent Calendar, to his uni in Northampton - he's 20! And it has chocolate in it, but it is Ranger's chocolate.

lol at some of these stories. Glad i'm not the only one!

I realised today that they even have a choclate one a nursery... at least she only opens one door there! I'm praying that there are no 'selection pack' stocking fillers.

I opend the cupboard with the stash in it this morning to get some soup out and realised there was...

a bag full of chocolates and lollies (a friend had treated her on halloween)
A can of white chocolate maggots (also from halloween)
A bag of choclate eyeballs (yep you guessed it)
a packet of Curley Wurleys (She's 3!)
a packet of cadburys Animal choclate bars
a packet of Animal shaped biscuits
an open bag of Bertie Bassets
an open bag of Jelly babies

and thats just what caught my eye and I can remember right now.

oh and some white choclate bar thing
some mini chedders
and 2 bags of Pom Bear crisps

DS is loving his choccie Advent calender still - still irritating me by moving my furnitrue around in my Playmobile one - oops Freudian slip - HIS Playmobile one!!!

And this morning Santa had been!

Here in Hungary on the night of 5ht December all the children clean their shoes and leave them in the window and Miclaus (Santa) comes and leaves them some sweets/choccies. So yesterday in school they all had to clean their indoor shoes and leave them in the window and then this morning there was a chocolate sweet in each one with a little note. Very cute.

Did notice that DS had managed to get white paint on his shoes yesterday which had come off in the cleaning. When I commented he replied that it must have been Miclaus!!

OF course DS decided on going to bed last night to leave his slippers in the window at home too! So Miclaus duly left a little choc Xmas decoration and a choc coin in each one. So lots of choc this morning! Although he was only allowed eat the advent calendar one and one coin. Even gave me the sweet from school to save for later.

But I know what you mean about having so much rubbish - I regularly go through DS's stash and chuck stuff. He really only likes nice chocolate - is a bit fussy that way! And certain sweets so we end up with lots past its sell by date! Have just chucked out stuff from Easter!

This is the first and last year DD(3) will be having a choc advent calendar. MIL bought it for her and gave it her in mid Nov [exasparated emoticon] - cue first argument as, understandably, she didn't want to wait a fortnight to open it. Now it's arguments about wanting to open more than one door a day or have it before breakfast. Grrrr.

don't mean to be rude but can u not ask ppl not to give her chocolate for xmas and go to different shops/chinese restaurants?

both my ds's have chocolate advent calendars but tbh i have never had a prob with ppl offering choc, imo u r giving her the msg its ok to take sweets from ppl, i would just say no and if it became a prob themn i would leave and go shop somewhere else

I do ask people not to give her chocolate but it's a long story and I know I've ranted on about it on here before so won't bore you.

Can't use any other chinese for various reasons. He's fine really, normally he gives her a massive bag of prawn crackers and she shares them out. Which I don't normally mind as she only ends up with a few.

I was saying no, no more, to him the other night but he wasn't listening. I don't want to be too harsh either as he and his wife are desperately struggling to get their children over here and I can't imagine how much they both must miss their children.

Mascara, LOL at your cupbaord of goodies! Our stuff wouldn't last that long. DH has a terible sweet tooth and would have polished that lot off in no time at all! (then complained of having a tummy ache! kids...err, I mean MEN!)