Jiminy PEOPLE! The child is sucking my soul right from my eyeballs today. The defiance and will and back talking...seriously if it wasn't happening to me I'd be proud of the spunk I was beholding. Since it is, I am contemplating what sort of social ramifications having her vocal cords removed would hold. Oh sure, gasp if you want, you'd be thinking the same thing if you were dealing with the Mighty Pissiness/Have A Kitten Every Time She Doesn't Get Her Way Princess  (right now, at this very second, she is in the next room screaming "WHAT? YOU'RE JUST GOING TO LEAVE ME HERE IN MY ROOM BY MYSELF, TO SLEEP, BY MYSELF?").  

Have you seen Tinkerbell? If you have you're familiar with the arms crossed, shoulders shrugged "HUMPH" maneuver. Emma's picked that up! I'm going to mail her to Disney to show those fucktard animators what's rubbing off on the kids....

Speaking of Tinkerbell, what's up with the VAVAVAVOOM shot? The one that starts at the feet and slowly works its way up the body, pausing ever so slightly at the hips and boobs? I keep looking for the money shot with the WAY too short dress. You don't see the rest of the fairies in Pixy Hollow bellying up to 'Ho'.  I just don't think I should be thinking LABIA while watching a cartoon about a fairy is what I'm saying.

WAY TO SCREW UP ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD CHARACTERS DISNEY!

This is where you should feel kinda sorry for Mark, he gets the pleasantness of me disecting children's television often. I'm sorry, it sucks, there's some really bad stuff out there! But yes, you should feel bad for him. I understand I'm a bit opinionated....

So, you know, I'm attempting this good mother thing (stop with the snorting!), and part of that for me means that I'd like Emma to learn appreciation for gifts, especially those things that are made for her by hand. It was something that was deeply instilled in me as a child and I'd like to share that with her. So this year instead of schlepping ourselves down to the store to buy gifts for classmates and parties, we're making them. Not a small order when you remember she's four and has the attention span of a gnat on espresso after a line of coke. We have two events, the holiday class party and the A Group of Us Are Banning the CovenFCC Christmas Party Snoozefest and Having Our Own Gathering (not at my house!!). Total it's about 25 gifts that need to be made (please refer to gnat reference) so it has to be quick and easy and yet still pretty cool. I have chosen Magic Reindeer Food for the Non-FCC Party (we're supposed to bring something to put in a stocking) and here's where I could use your help....

Imagine you're a 4-6 year old, would you prefer:

1. Snowman Soup, or
2. Smores

Also, if you haven't read Southern Plate, you really must. She is awesome and sweet and her recipes kick southern ass.

OH YEAH! The snow! There was stunning lack of, as in none, zip, nadda. Not a single flake. There's a lot of bread in freezers right now.

Comments

[k2]

Smores. Hands down. You can see the chocolate and the marshmallows AND the cookies right through the package. (At this point my 5-year-olds might actually swoon.) Also, all solid ingredients seriously lowers the mess-from-h*ll potential.

[Kikilia]

Snowman soup. I'm not sure the smores would make it to being smores- more likely just eat the crackers and chocolate alone... Not that that is a bad thing.

However I think a kid might like the idea of a snowman being in a "soup".

[Lisa]

" I just don't think I should be thinking LABIA while watching a cartoon about a fairy is what I'm saying. "

YOu gave me a great laugh there. While watching "Elf" at the neighborhood Saturday night movie night one of the female adults said "OMG, would you look at THAT. Geez, could they like, uhmm, cover him up?" As we were all noticing, many for the first time, how his, uhm, "package" really 'stands out' at times.

Adults staring at 'the package', kids seeing everything but that.

[Kelley Swaine]

OMG! I just found your blog. So funny. I totally feel you on the soul sucking. I've had one of those days also. I would go with the Snowman Soup. I think its much more original.