Switchy Witchy

I really try not to give Kenna much snack/candy type foods, mostly because it is bad for her, but also because she can’t eat most of it because of her egg allergy.  So holidays are rather hard for her because everyone eats things she can’t have.  Christmas is loaded with cookies, Thanksgiving is just a pain because I have to make everyone double and triple check what they put in the food they cook, and Halloween...I never know what is in all the candy, short of reading the labels on every kind of candy at the store before hand and making a list..not worth it.  So while trying to come up with my plan of attack for Halloween this year, I stumbled across something in a magazine.  They had the idea of “The Switchy Witchy”.  Sounds silly, I know, but give it a chance.  So they had the kids pick out just a few pieces of their candy, and then the rest they leave in their baskets on the front porch, then in the morning the Switchy Witchy takes the candy and leaves them something like a book, DVD, or toy.  I thought, well that seems a lot like bribery, but then the idea started to grow on me.  At least for this year, my girls will be trick or treating early (not to mention also on 2 different days before the actual Halloween trick or treating), so if they leave the candy for the Switchy Witchy, that in turns means less candy I have to buy to pass out, bonus number one.  I don’t have to check the candy for egg, bonus number two.  It also means my kids are not eating all the crap that they get and bouncing off the walls all night, bonus numbers three and four!  And that was all it took, I was convinced!  The Switchy Witchy is coming to our house this year to exchange books for candy.  Oh, and to add educational to the list of bonuses, I am making Kenna write a note to the Switchy Witchy to leave with her candy to let her know that she is indeed interested in the switch J