Just Eat The Cookie!

My husband, Brad and I got into......let's call it a debate.  It wasn't an argument because we were laughing at each other the whole time.  It was so stupid I have to share.  We do this a lot by the way.  Oh, we get into genuine arguments often.  But we more often have these "debates", where no one is angry, we're not really fussing, and most of the time we're laughing.  We usually try to get Connor in on these and take our side.  He'll side with whoever has candy, sometimes I think he's smarter than we are.

Anyways, back to our recent "debate".  I have this problem.  I guess one could call it an addiction.  I'll be going along fine, but when this particular item enters the house I lose all self control and over indulge myself.  It's called Chocolate.  I think a lot of women share this addiction.  I don't really know I'm craving it until I know it's in the house.  I have even hid the last Reese's Peanut Butter Cup from Connor because it was the last one and he would've just taken two bites and thrown it away and I didn't want it wasted!! At the time, it seems a legitimate reason, but later I feel like a bad mom!

Brad knows I have this addiction.  We've been married almost eight years, he has noticed how I dive into chocolate and before you can say "save me some" there's empty wrappers everywhere and chocolate smeared all over my mouth and hands!  So being aware of this problem he comes in from Dollar General about three weeks ago with a package of Chips Ahoy Chewy Gooey chocolate chip cookies.  I pounced.  He didn't know what hit him.  But we're not talking about any ordinary cookie here, these cookies have chocolate all through the middle!! You can even put them in the microwave and heat them up!

Needless to say these cookies didn't last very long.  In less than a week we were left with an empty package.  Connor ate about two of them, and Brad didn't get any.  I almost feel terrible.  When Brad came in and found the empty package he asked what happened to them all.  I fluttered my eyes up at him with my most innocent look and very nonchalantly shrugged my shoulders.  He didn't buy it.  His reaction was "Oh my gosh, girl! You ate all of them? You know they won't go out of date in one week right? I didn't even get any!"

It wasn't MY fault he didn't get any, they were sitting in the pantry in plain sight behind the cereal! He knew they were in there, he could've ate some at any time before they were all gone.  I told him "Fine, I'll buy another pack you can have some of them."  So the next time I was at the grocery store I bought a pack.  He messed around so long he didn't get any of those either.  And again I get in "trouble" because he didn't eat any.  I really tried to control myself with this pack! I'd eat one or two about every day or two.  I made them last as long as I could, and he didn't touch them once!  I couldn't just let them sit there.  Every time I opened the pantry to get cereal or chips or any of the things I cook with, they were there....staring at me....one time I even heard them calling my name, it was very faint, but I hear them.

So now we're on our third pack of these gooey chocolate chip cookies and only two are gone out of it.  I wanted a snack after my supper last night.  I showed them to him, I told him it was our third pack, please just eat the cookies so I don't feel guilty.  I'm not going to buy any more cookies after this whether he gets any out of this pack or not.  I can't keeping eating the cookies for everyone else!!