On layering Pixy Stix and other important lessons...
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At my house we take trick or treating seriously. For one thing, we have a very steep front yard, and we feel that anyone who climbs that slope deserves a treat, dammit. But we love Halloween, so any excuse to have fun, really.
So tonight we had a mother-daughters lesson in the proper mixing of candy. We have a large (as big as a pumpkin) plastic cauldron that we use for our candy bucket. I always wind up buying enough to fill it at least a time and a half (I did say we tended to get into it, right?). So my standard procedure is to scrounge up a box of some sort, dump all the candy into it, then thoroughly mix it up so that we don't have pockets of one sort of candy.
There was much giggling and begging for "just more one piece, pleeeeeeeeease?" while arms flailed around in the box. And Mommy got to lecture on the correct dispersal of candy. One 'good' piece, like a mini-chocolate bar, and two or three cheaper things like tootsie rolls or gum per kid. No Pop Rocks or gummie body parts to the little kids. And most importantly, the proper handling of Pixy Stix.
Solemnly I told them that one must never throw the Pixy Stix in the box with the rest of the candy. Those little cardboard tubes couldn't stand up to it, and we would wind up with lots of broken sticks and multicolored sugar all over the bottom of the box. The technique is to put a layer of candy about an inch deep in the cauldron, then put down a layer of Pixy Stix, and keep layering until it was full.
The decorations are out. The pumpkin is on the porch. The candy is ready... and hidden so we'll actually have some tomorrow night. *g*
At my house we take trick or treating seriously. For one thing, we have a very steep front yard, and we feel that anyone who climbs that slope deserves a treat, dammit. But we love Halloween, so any excuse to have fun, really.
So tonight we had a mother-daughters lesson in the proper mixing of candy. We have a large (as big as a pumpkin) plastic cauldron that we use for our candy bucket. I always wind up buying enough to fill it at least a time and a half (I did say we tended to get into it, right?). So my standard procedure is to scrounge up a box of some sort, dump all the candy into it, then thoroughly mix it up so that we don't have pockets of one sort of candy.
There was much giggling and begging for "just more one piece, pleeeeeeeeease?" while arms flailed around in the box. And Mommy got to lecture on the correct dispersal of candy. One 'good' piece, like a mini-chocolate bar, and two or three cheaper things like tootsie rolls or gum per kid. No Pop Rocks or gummie body parts to the little kids. And most importantly, the proper handling of Pixy Stix.
Solemnly I told them that one must never throw the Pixy Stix in the box with the rest of the candy. Those little cardboard tubes couldn't stand up to it, and we would wind up with lots of broken sticks and multicolored sugar all over the bottom of the box. The technique is to put a layer of candy about an inch deep in the cauldron, then put down a layer of Pixy Stix, and keep layering until it was full.
The decorations are out. The pumpkin is on the porch. The candy is ready... and hidden so we'll actually have some tomorrow night. *g*