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Major cookie drama in our house
About a month ago, I bought some small cookie tins with the plan of loading them up with cookies from the GTG and giving them to our daycare workers with a handwritten note and a cash gift. Right after the GTG, I came home and lined all of the tins with wax paper and carefully placed the cookies inside, making sure to give each person a variety of cookies. I left the extra cookies in a tupperware container on the counter for our family to eat.
Last night at 10:30pm, I finally got around to writing the heartfelt notes to each daycare worker and I was about to tape the cards on each tin and put a ribbon around them to give it a festive presentation. I grabbed one of the tins and noticed it sounded hollow. I then opened them all up only to see that half of the cookies were gone from each of them.
Here's the conversation that followed. I felt like I was on an episode of Modern Family as Claire Dunphy.
Me: DH, did you eat cookies out of the tins?
DH: Yes.
Me: Why did you do that?
DH: I didn't know.
Me: You didn't know what? I specifically told you that those tins were for the daycare workers.
DH: Oh, I didn't know.
Me: What part of "these are for the daycare workers" was unclear?
DH: I thought you were just trying to get rid of them like when you bring the leftover Halloween candy to work.
Me: No! This was part of their Christmas present to go with the money we are giving them.
DH: Why are you giving them cookies? Why can't you just give them cash?
Me: Because, I want to give them a small gift and something festive related to the holidays in addition to the cash.
DH: What if they don't like cookies?
Me: Well, they can just share them with their friends and family. <<on the verge of tears>>
DH: Why are you so upset?
Me: Because, I put thought and effort into this gift and you just ruined it. Wouldn't you be upset if I just ruined one of your gifts?
DH: Sorry, I didn't know if was part of their Christmas bonus.
Me: It's not part of their "bonus", it's just a gift I wanted to give along with the money.
Anyway, the result of this is that DH is going to the store today to buy some butter cookies and peanut butter cups to fill up the rest of the tins. I was so upset last night but now I think it's sort of funny. Note to self: if I make or set aside food for a special event, put a big note on it specifically saying that DH should not eat it.
Re: Major cookie drama in our house
OMG, that is so funny because it is about to happen in our house.
Each year we give my parents' neighbors each a huge basket of goodies as a thank you for helping out with my elderly parents. My sister and I bake loads of goodies, but I always put in some cookies from the cookie swap too. Since we are hosting Christmas and I won't be at my mom's until New Year's Day, I put a bunch of cookies in the freezer and told DH he could have the cookies in the tupperware on the counter.
Well, I noticed this morning that one of the tupperwares that was in the freezer was in the sink EMPTY! Grrrrrr. I know it is not a big deal because there is already so many goodies, but it is the fact that I asked him not to eat the cookies in the freezer......
I love that he left the empty container in the freezer. It's like they are trying to hope you don't notice.
I'm glad you can laugh about it today.
If it makes you feel any better, after the kids go to sleep I usually take any leftovers and cut them up small for the kids for lunch the next day. Well, imagine my surprise a few months ago when DH comes over to the table with a sausage cut up in tiny little pieces. I was so mad--all the time I take to make sure everything is set for the next day. He was like--Oh, I didn't know it was for DS. What?!!? That has not happened again.
LOL. That's pretty funny. I'm glad to know I'm not alone.
lol my husband does this all the time. He calls it blind eating.
I make my own sauce for pasta, and when we have pasta, i'll take a container of the sauce out of the freezer and put it in the fridge to defrost. One night, I go to make dinner, and the sauce isn't there. And I'm like - was that a dream? did i not take it out?
So I called DH at work and he was like "waaaaaah, i dont have lunch" and I was like, sounds like a personal problem, and you won't have dinner because my last container of sauce is MIA. So he's like - yeah - i have it at work.
The idiot took a container of sauce for lunch. I just don't understand it. He was supposed to take the chicken pot pie. Those two look nothing alike!! How do you mess that up?!
So, yeah, moral of the story - leave notes on EVERYTHING.
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That could totally happen in our house. I can picture it.
I'm sorry, Kendra. But I think the pb cups will be a good supplement!
I somehow find it even funnier that he eat a few out of each, instead of just finishing off one tin.
That sucks, though, and it's totally something I wouldn't put past DH. When I made some pumpkin bars ahead of time for Thanksgiving, DH was out late, and I sent him a text saying not to eat them. Otherwise I was sure he'd have come home and been like "score!" and eaten half of them.
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Same here!
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LOL, this was my first thought.
I would totally be fuming.
Yes, it's like he knew he was doing something wrong and was trying to cover up his tracks hoping that I wouldn't notice. He feels really bad about it though and is going to the store today. So, I can't give him too hard of a time.