Mum's Tuck Box

[ailbhe]

In spite of my gut-reaction being negative, I think I will have a private stash of special food children aren't allowed to raid. They are good about my private things, like my desk and my art materials.

It just feels wrong to do it with food.

But I really need to know that when I stumble irritably towards the cereal bars, they'll be there, and not have the tops bitten off to see which one is nicest.

Comments

[juliet]

The Good Scissors! my mum had a pair of Good Scissors too, which we weren't allowed to use for other things (they were in her sewing box). Although some years later, I mentioned this, and Mum laughed and said that in fact, those weren't the *really* good scissors, which were hidden someplace else :)

I can understand you feeling uncomfortable about private food stash, but as long as there is also plenty of food for the kids, I think it's not only legit, but in this case, sounds like a really good idea.

I have private chocolate stashes from the rest of the adults in the house, and can well imagine that I'll still have them when L is old enough to be after chocolate. Also snacks in the fridge that others are welcome to but not to finish all of & to tell me if they're getting low. (And then there's the stash of M&Ms that doop keeps somewhere on my behalf after I kept demanding M&Ms at odd hours during pregnancy, & if he left them in the kitchen I'd have gone through that stash already.)