{"id":870,"date":"2009-10-31T09:53:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=870"},"modified":"2009-11-25T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T02:43:47","slug":"the-switch-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"The Switch Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few years ago a friend passed on a great tip on how to manage all of the candy that your kids haul in from trick or treating.<\/p>\n

Enter the Switch Witch.<\/p>\n

Switch Witch is a very kind witch (we don’t like things too dark or scary here) who comes by after Halloween to take away extra candy and instead leave a more sensible goodie.\u00c2\u00a0 The beauty of the Switch Witch is you <\/em>get to decide everything about her.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, etc., your kids have probably never heard of her, which is awesome!\u00c2\u00a0 Because it means you\u00c2\u00a0are not hemmed in by preconceived notions or expectations–how fantastic, right?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s fun to make your own tradition.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s what we do.<\/p>\n

The boys come in after a fun night of trick or treating, their bags holding an impossible amount of candy.\u00c2\u00a0 We dump and check the loot and they get to eat a few pieces on the spot.\u00c2\u00a0 Then we take out their small containers (we decorate empty plastic peanut butter jars) and they can fill them with whatever candy they choose (to be consumed later per some house rules).\u00c2\u00a0 I try not to candy-shame them into picking what I consider the “good stuff”–but it’s hard (I have to ask, in what universe does a roll of Smarties trump any <\/em>candy made with real chocolate?).<\/p>\n

The rest of the candy is set out for the Switch Witch,\u00c2\u00a0who takes the candy and leaves a non-candy treat.\u00c2\u00a0 In years past we’ve done books or small toys.\u00c2\u00a0 This year I found some nifty rotating toothbrushes that the boys wanted–I figured a toothbrush “toy” would be a perfect switch for candy!<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until last year that either of the boys asked what happened to all of the candy.\u00c2\u00a0 I told them she takes it to others to share (I left out that the “others” were my then-officemates).\u00c2\u00a0 This year the loot is headed to my husband’s office.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago a friend passed on a great tip on how to manage all of the candy that your kids haul in from trick or treating. Enter the Switch Witch. Switch Witch is a very kind witch (we don’t like things too dark or scary here) who comes by after Halloween to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,54,8],"tags":[406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}