Thank you, Great Pumpkin!

Here's a little trick I learned reading the comments on sfgate.

On Halloween night, you tell your kid to eat as much of his candy as he wants. Just say "Go to town, kid. Eat as much as you can hold."

But here's the catch. You say "Whatever you don't eat tonight, we put it out on the front porch. Then the Great Pumpkin will take your left over candy and leave you a present."

Worked like a charm here at the Pink House. Sure the kid turned into a holy terror for about 18 hours, but once we flushed the sugar and other assorted stimulants out of his system, he mellowed out considerably.

Came home from preschool yesterday, and took a two-hour nap!

And now all that candy is out of the house for good.

Well, maybe not technically out of the house.

If I'm a little surly at work today, don't take it personally. It's the Brach's fruit chews and Butterfingers I had for breakfast.

Kurt "big daddy" True
2 november 2007