Ready for S'more?
Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 9:45PM I bet you'll never guess what else we did. If you guess fencing you won't be far off the mark...
Did you guess? I bet my title gave it away.
The kids anticipated the making of s'mores almost as much as the water sports.
You know how they say,"Where there's smoke, there's fire"? Well, also and equally important, where there's fire, there's smoke. It's in your eyes and your nostrils, it's burning up the hair on your arms! But the kids didn't care (so much)...toasting those 'mallows was priority numero uno. I tried helping Eliana but had the wrong angle, so Dad took her around to the side of the fire (above the fire, up the hill, was off limits; aren't you safety people proud?). It was still dang hot.
She was not too sure about all this getting-close-to-fire business.
These two ladies were all about getting as close as they could, however.
Michaela may have gotten a wee bit too close.
Grandma Lillie would have been so proud. (My grandma burned her biscuits on purpose. She may very well have loved burnt marshmallows. I'll have to ask her some day.)
The kids
got ooey, gooey
and loved
every bite of it.
Cousin J. eventually had enough of the fighting fire and smoke and just went straight for the marshmallow on the graham.
However they ate them, though, they were very happy in the end.
Mike's mom and brother were around to help and to watch the marshmallow mayhem. I think they had fun observing without partaking. What self-control! I can't claim to have the same virtuous ability to refrain from eating chocolate whenever offered.
But that's nothing new around here, right?
Reader Comments (5)
S'mores are a big hit in our house right now. The last time we made them, we used Nutella instead of Hershey's bars and we will never make them the old way again! Nutella is definitely the way to go!
Elaine,
That sounds delicious!!
Elaine may very well be my new hero.
I wish I liked my marshmallows burned because that's how they always seem to end up. I need Michaela to sit next to me to eat my rejects.
I want toasted marshmallows!
Me!
Oh, why am I at work so very far from marshmallows?
WHY???
What did you think of those giant ones? Are the better/worse for s'mores? I only ask because in roughly 340 days I may need to know.