The smartest thing that I have ever done is impose a mommy tax. Ever since my kids were little, if they ever had a treat or they were eating something I would automatically get a bite. Now if I ever say mommy tax they WILLINGLY give up a piece of their treat to me. With a mommy tax around sometimes my husband can get away with imposing a daddy tax. The other day both of my girls had fruit snacks while we were in the car and of course they each gave me afor piece. Kaitlyn finished hers but Madison was very insistent that she save one for her daddy (even though it rarely makes it home to him). We arrived to pick up a pizza for dinner and as we are getting out Madison realizes she dropped daddy's candy. Well she picks it up and places it in the car. After returning to the car we are driving and I hear Madison say that the treat touched her booger and it is wet. She asked for something to wipe it off so I gave her a paper towel. When we get home Madison brings the treat that she so diligently guarded for daddy up to me and asked me to get the paper towel off that was stuck to it. The fruit snack was covered in paper towel, hair and who knows what else. I rinsed it and then gave it back to her in hopes to be able to warn Curtis not to eat it. But to my horror she beat me to him. After realizing the fruit snack was wet Curtis decided he didn't want to eat it and fed it to Madison instead! I guess our clever tax kind of backfired on us.
