So, Feisty Pants has a four day weekend this weekend. It seems a
little early for President's Day, but whatevs. It's nice and cold (FINALLY) so
we will just sleep in and enjoy it. We did take her grocery shopping with us
today. She LOVES to shop - halfway. Then she HATES to shop and wants EVERYBODY
to know that we are simply torturing her. Ahh welll, whatcha gonna do? Today
she was fine until we stopped looking at toys ( O. M. G. there are lego sets
with ELVES in them!!!!) and chocolate. Then the bitching commenced. So I
challenged her to a fist fight in the parking lot and asked Goo to hold my
earrings. Goo offered to take bets and gave three to one odds that she would
kick my ass. That seemed to freak out the people in the store and kept her
laughing for at least three aisles. So I count this trip a success. I just hope
Child Protective Services has the same sense of humor Feisty Pants has.
Feisty Pants also did her last minute Valentine's Day
shopping. Her party for school was yesterday but we still have each other and I
suppose we will have to be nice to each other or something. She took her father down the candy aisle all by herself to pick things for
people. The stuff we made is apparently "lame". In a moment of total generosity,
she told Goo to "Go pick someting". So he picked Reeses and said, "Ooh, my
favorite" To which FP replied, "No, you don't want. You want M's (m and
m's)" Goo said, "I do?" Feisty Pants said,"Yup. Better for you. You're
welcome." And that's how we now know Goo's favorite candy is M and M's. The
fact that it is also Feisty Pants' favorite is completely coincidental.
And so anywhooo, we wish you all a non-eventful Valentine's
Day filled with M's and whatever weather you like. In case any of you are still
not ready, here is one last easy peasy recipe. It's yummy and crunchy and
great for sitting around snacking on while watching the return of the Walking
Dead on Sunday because everybody knows nothing says romance like shuffling,
rotting corpses on tv. (No? Just us? Really?)
Confetti Popcorn-
you will need- 6-8 cups popped popcorn (that's about two microwave
bags)
Chocolate chips- dark and white (you can even get
colored discs if want to be fancy)
Large bag M and M's
2 cups peanuts
1 cup dried cranberries or raisins
Place popcorn in large bowl. Add nuts, M and M's, cranberries,
raisins. Melt dark chocolate in microwave and drizzle over popcorn and stir.
Now do the same with the white chocolate. Allow to cool. You can place this in
mason jars or cello bags if you want to make gifts or just haul the bowl into living
room for feeding the zombie hordes at your house.
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