The Search for Miss Direction: Wild About Chocolate

Monday, October 28, 2013

Wild About Chocolate

The title of tonight's post so does not describe me. During my dip in the gene pool not only did I completely by-pass the shoe and purse section, only lightly stuck my toe in the shopping area, clearly avoided the pink/girly/princess thing, but I also steered clear of the deeply embedded desire for everything chocolate. Just not my thing really. Though I will admit, pretzel M&M's, most amazing creation EVER.

My kiddos at the point are pretty similar. The average night Mikayla will skip dessert all together if it isn't a 'food' we are celebrating. Grant enjoys it, especially if it's paired with peanut butter or wrapped around the white peppermint filling to create a Junior Mint.

So on National Chocolate Day I wanted to celebrate chocolate in a way that wasn't quite so obvious. So we had Chicken Mole for dinner tonight. There's lots of different types of Mole sauce, but mine definitely contained quite a bit of chocolate. Something completely different which everyone here ended up liking. And of course, I had to celebrate a little more traditionally, too with some hot chocolate and a dessert that I created am am calling "Chocolate Candy Bar Fluff" - take one of pretty much every candy bar we collected yesterday, a pack of hot chocolate mix and some cool whip, mix well, chill and watch your kiddos eyes pop out of their head. Genius, I tell ya ;-) Honestly, for my twosome it was more the cool whip then the chocolate that enticed them.

It's also National Wild Food Day. I was tempted to go into my backyard and pick something off of one of them many bushes and trees, but figured that might not be the safest idea. So instead I went with a wild rice dish - completely opposite end of the spectrum. So there, wild foods.

In other news today, Chase Bank and I almost came to blows as I got caught up with their 'customer service' for nearly an hour today after my card was inexplicably denied at both of the grocery stores I ventured to this morning. I did fortunately eventually get it figured out (there was a hold placed on the account but they can't tell me why. Grrrrrr.....) but what a frustrating way to spend a good chunk of my day. Bounced around an automated system for quite some time and then when I finally did get a human being English was obviously not their native language so I had more than a little difficulty understanding what was going on.

Mikayla and Noah both had good days themselves and we're off to skype with the Kunkle's here in just a bit. Looking forward to seeing Little Miss Lilian (who celebrated her first birthday yesterday!) my bestie and Arthur, too ;-) So going to sign off for the evening and make sure my kiddos are ready for bed before we skype. Oatmeal (now there's a food I LOVE!) tomorrow and we're hopefully going to track down a new microwave, too. So until then....

Mikayla refuses to acknowledge that winter is coming and is still insisting on wearing her summer clothes. I did convince her she had to wear long sleeves underneath and leggings...