Sour Skittles

Last night I took Mae and Caleb to the fabric store with me as I had to pick up a few skeins of yarn. As always, the kids start looking around and pulling things off the shelves and asking if they can have it, or if I would buy it then they'll pay me back when we get home. I spouted off a half dozen of the typical motherly response - no. However, I was almost to the cashier when we passed by the last-chance-purchase isle (also known as; come-on-sucka-buy-me-I'm-only-a-buck-section). This little isle is a kid magnet! It's not filled with important don't-forget-this-you'll-need-it-for-your-project type stuff. Oh, no, no! There's little colorful note pads, daily calenders, half-dried up markers, and flimsy wooden cut outs that you can paint. But mostly it has candy. And lots of it.

My resistance was weakened and I succumbed to the pleading and allowed Mae to get a cute little notepad with a teeny little pen. Well, I couldn't let Mae pick something out and not Caleb. So I let him get one thing of candy. At first he wanted some bubble tape, but then he changed his mind at the last second and chose a small bag of Skittles, the sour ones. I thought that was an interesting choice considering he doesn't like spicy things. Maybe candy is the exception to that rule.

I had one more stop before going home and along the way I asked if Caleb would share his candy with me, and he did. Of course I couldn't have just one and Mae wanted some too. Again he obliged us (more willingly after I promised to buy him another package at the store). We had fun making funny faces and sounds as we ate the sour candy. At first we'd eat just one and say whether it was really sour or not. It was determined that the green ones were the most sour. But then we upped the sour level by eating two different ones at a time! Again green won out when paired with red.

It's amazing what one package of candy can do. I enjoyed have fun with my kids, which is something I feel rarely happens, and for a small window of time I think they had fun with me too. My tounge feels a bit raw and food may not have much flavor over the next day or so, but it was totally worth it and I am thankful for that one little bag of sour Skittles.