Heh. If you don't find that at least a leeeeetle funny, then you're probably going to need a few beers before showing up at one of our family functions.Anyway. I know you are all on the edge of your seats about the seasonal cookies. I bought them AGAIN, and this time I didn't even go to the fancy bakery. Unless you consider Tom Thumb "fancy", which if we're being honest I sort of do.
I showed up to AD's "party" and she had a little treat bag with her name on it and everything! Let the good times roll! And speaking of good times, would you like to play a little game I like to call "Which of these things was inside the Valentines Day treat bag of a mofo TODDLER?" (It's a working title):
A) A Valentine PHOTO CARD of one of her classmates
B) Pixie sticks
C) Fun Dip
D) All of the above, even though it DEFIES BELIEF
So, yeah, D). I didn't know about the pixie sticks until it was too late, and by "too late" I mean "after she had already sprayed them throughout the backseat of the car". It looked like a scene from Boogie Nights back there by the time we got home. Who gives pixie sticks to a group of toddlers? At least I didn't find her SNORTING them, as was the tradition of your average 1980s Minnesotan youth.
I hope you all had a great day. I certainly have the occasional strong positive feeling toward you, even if no one ELSE does.
High as a kite on seasonal cookies
29 comments:
The laugh factor is high with this post. You cheered me up, thanks.
Also that card rocks, and the pixie sticks definitely do NOT but the pixie stick dust in the back seat like a Boogie Nights reminder - deserves chuckles.
Really? About the GOODIE BAG? Wow.
Loved this post so much, **I** was making the same face as AD when I reached her picture. Good times.
Stinkin cute little munchkin, are you sure she is yours? Just kidding!!! Oh, and your fam has an awesome sense of humor!!! The three of you girls together is the best!
Heh! I gave out Fun Dip for all the kids because I wanted to be the "cool mom".
Ducky's treat bags were filled with not just candy, but Hong Kong junk. Thank you, I have enough shit in my house. It all goes in the garbage. Mommy is mean. And I accept this.
Since when did valentine's day become the new Halloween? Ducky came home with a GALLON sized ziploc bursting with treats.
And some moms just try too hard with the treat bags. Don't these women have jobs?? Or is treat bag making their job?? They make me feel so inadequate..
A PHOTO CARD? For toddlers?! How much disposable income do these parents have that they are making Valentine's Day photo cards for three year olds?!
OMG, this post... ah had me in tears. Thank you for putting the "AL" back in Valentine's Day! ;)
OMG, she is so cute all high on sugar like that (well she is cute without too but you get the idea...) Our son has whined incessantly about the mini M&Ms I took away from him that he received in his cute little name mailbox yesterday. We told him he could have a few on the weekend when I can handle sugar overload in a toddler and also not right before bed time because OMG he went to sleep at 10 p last night, help me NOW!
"occasional strong positive feeling" - I am SO using this on my next Valentine's Day card to my husband... oh, wait, we don't DO cards (it's $2 that could go toward the actual GIFT, which didn't even COST $2). I may have to make an exception just to use that phrase, though.
SB and T brought home a shit-load of crap, too. Whereas the Valentines they handed out didn't even have candy attached. I am LAME that way. That, or just too lazy to go to the store, and we used Valentines that my mom had bought after Valentine's Day 3 years ago, so she got them for 25 cents a box and now I have Valentines coming out of my fucking ears.
And AD is TOO CUTE!
Those pants on AD are adorable!
When I was a kid all we did was make little boxes, and then everybody would deposit a little Valentine in the slot on your shoe box and there was no candy involved and WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!
Man, she's CUTE!
As I went through all three of the heart envelope/mailbox thingies, I discovered that I was one of the only ones that DIDN'T include some kind of candy with the Valentine.
I still thought their valentines were cool, because they came with tattoos. And I did MAKE the heart cookies (and Lisa informed me that they were the only homemade treats there!)
That photo card is a bit much. Ridiculous, really.
While the photo card is definitely over the top, I bet the kids enjoyed having a card with a picture of their friend - My son always enjoys the photo Christmas cards we receive.
Pixie sticks...My son got one of those at my mother-in-laws. We managed to stash it away without him missing it. "Here - Have a straw full of sugar."
Yum, pixie sticks. My child wont be allowed those until college. Bear got a bag too but all it had was a picture of him in a homemade frame. And I know he is talented and all but I am pretty sure he didn't draw all the little hearts on it and glue on the puzzle pieces himself. Oh well, at least the picture was taken before he got his black eye.
i love her seasonal pants!
um. pixie sticks? for realz? that parent is insane.
ps: SNORT. i love that valentine.
LOVE the pants - we do holiday pants in our house but since I have a boy I usually have to make them. We also got not one but TWO large packets of fun dip in the goodie bag FROM HIS TEACHERS. he loves it though (and K does too so he probably steal those)
Toddler pixie sticks is complete crazy.
Also, this is for sure a calendar worthy shot. So freakin cute. And not teatering near any sort of danger zone. Good work mom.
Oh my goodness, I love how you compared AD with pixie sticks to Boogie Nights!!!!
That is a great picture of her! Love the festive holiday pants!
I consider Tom Thumb to be fancy. They have WOODEN FLOORS in there. A grocery store. Seriously.
One of my kids did a photo card also. Attached to a treat bag with a homemade frosted cookie. Way to make the rest of us look bad, right?
LOVE the Valentine pants. Also, you get five stars today for the Boogie Nights analogy...
I think we should all celebrate Valentine's Day like AD.
As yes the "momma, I'm seein' colors" face. So cute!
I have a pic of my nephew sucking decorating sugar off the table through a straw when we made christmas cookies one year. He was definitely on some sort of trip by the end of that night.
LOL
They still make Fun Dip? Man, I loved that stuff! But for toddlers? Yeah, I don't think so.
You can't be THAT emotionally crippaaalled..
Your baybay had Heart Pants on for the holiday.
I feel the need to clarify; I was expecting a snarky Valentine’s post about the Barfy holiday that is Valentines. I don’t think I was very clear yesterday….
AD is adorable. Love the pants, love the grin.
I ws a totla a-hole parent apparently....CA recieved books, playdough and an abundance of candy. WTF!!
Very funny card. I want to send it to my sister, but something tells me she'd take it seriously and be offended. Can I be in your family?
Mine came home with a whole valentines box filled with tattoos. Really? Tatoos are the new big thing for three-year-olds? I had no idea.
Oh. I hate the barfy shit too....the pink and red and hearts? I can't even look at it without puking.
Pixie sticks....now those might make it worthwhile...
AD is so stinking cute!! I love that smile and her little heart pants.
Kay, this comment is way late, but WORD on the goodie bags. At our church nursery, they like to hand out treats for special days like Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, St. Patricks, Canadian Boxing Day, Cinco de Mayo, etc. COMPLETELY NOT AGE APPROPRIATE TREATS, like for instance the fruit snacks pack that they gave my fifteen month old once! Hello! She doesn't even have all her TEETH yet!
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