Random thoughts and Easter Candy
So the new nightly routine in our household consists of putting the baby to bed, hearing random screaming from her room, opening the door and finding a naked child. 
I put her clothes back on (which is like wrestling cats), tuck her in with a firm reminder, “Keep your clothes on!” at which time she giggles saying, “Funny!” Thirty seconds after I close the door, she’s naked again. Maaan.
This morning she dumped an entire can of fish food into the aquarium. Hey, the fish were happy. Me? Not so much. My son thought it was hilarious–”Whoa, that’s a lot!” 
After vacuuming out some of the contaminated water, I’m hoping to remedy the rest of it tonight.
On another random topic, Easter is coming. 
As the designated Easter Bunny ™, I have to assemble the family baskets and purchase the candy. Hey, I don’t mind. All that buying power! But there must be Cadbury’s Creme Eggs in my basket. Heads will roll and life as I know it will end unless there is Cadbury’s in some form. For any of you living in the UK, my all-time favorite candy bar is the Picnic bar. 
I plan to buy a case of them when I visit again.
On my “must buy” list are usually jelly beans, a chocolate bunny of some form (Dove bunnies are tasty!), Cadbury’s of course, and then I often look at whatever else is offered at the store. Sometimes Reese’s eggs or Russell Stover. Sometimes I’ll throw a toy or two from the dollar store in my kids’ baskets. But I absolutely hate Peeps. Too much sugar! (Says she who inhales those rich, chocolatey, cream-filled Cadbury eggs) Someone once said you can microwave Peeps and make these monstrous creatures. Heh, heh, heh…that’s about all I’d do with them. But the absolute worst Easter candy for me are those sugar coated, hard Easter egg candies (they’re about the size of your thumb). Blech.
What Easter candies do you love and hate?
Michelle posted in Writing @ 7:38 am | Viewed 1850 times
Michelle Styles Says:
In the UK, it is mainly large chocolate eggs. Some of it is seriously good like Green and Black or Thornton’s but others are cheap and nasty tasting more of wax than anything else.
At the moment the stores are filled with row up row of eggs.
They don’t do baskets…
Kelly Says:
Ugh, I hate those hard coated easter eggs too. It’s like a sugar bullet. Blech. My favorite is the Lindt chocolate shaped easter bunny. Actually, any kind of lindt chocolate in any shape whatsoever works for me. I can hoover one of those bunnies down like nobody’s business.
Bonnie Ferguson Says:
:chocolate:I love the Easter cream eggs as well as the mini eggs from Cadbury. I love Reese stuff and Mars have thes little eggs filled with all the good stuff they put in their chcolate bars. I love the solid milk chocolate bunnies etc.
Oh man . . . this is making me hungry
Sharon Says:
I hate those sugary fluffy bunny things. I hate malted anything. And I’m not that crazy about jelly beans.
But I LOVE Reeses Eggs. And cadbury eggs, I love, but can only eat one before I get vaporlocked.
beth Says:
Now, see, Peeps are a big hit in our household. Tim inhales them by the package. Literally. He’ll sit down and scarf an entire package (doesn’t matter if they’re chickens or bunnies, pink, yellow or blue. He adores them.) What is hillarious to me is he won’t eat marshmallows plain. Says he doesn’t like the texture. Um? Hello?
Peeps man? Guess the sugar crystals make all the difference.
I have actually microwaved a few just to see - it’s really kinda cool.
Now me, just get me a hollow, dark chocolate bunny and I’m happy. I really don’t like the solid ones (too hard to eat) and it must. be. dark. chocolate. Or heads will be rolling at our house as well.
I think not having to share candy is one of the few perks of having no kids.
Rene Says:
I’m not a big candy fan. In fact, my mom used to fill my basket with toys when I was a kid because I didn’t like candy. But they have started making candy corn in Easter colors, so I like those. I hate peeps. Kids like them. I used to like the Cadbury eggs but they are too much for me.
Tori Lennox Says:
Love love LOVE jelly beans. Hate hate HATE Peeps. Peeps are the nastiest thing ever created, IMO.
Crystal* Says:
You know, those Reese’s guys are marketing geniuses. It used to be just the peanut butter eggs…which carry on a long tradition in my family. And now they have hearts for Valentine’s and trees for Christmas. I’m waiting for the leprachaun-shaped ones for St. Patrick’s Day. But I digress.
And so, of course, do the kids. My oldest always gets snickers of some sort. The middle likes sour. And the baby gets M & M’s. Chocolate abounds here. And they always receive one stuffed animal. *sigh*
I MUST have the Reese’s.
But NO jellybeans. Evah. They don’t like them. I don’t like them. It just isn’t happening. And don’t get me started on those nasty peeps.
There’s a guy who makes sculptures out of them. They have STAYING power. Imagine what your insides are gonna be like. LMAO
Grins*
Brian Says:
Um, Michelle…I don’t understand…you are saying that you are the Easter Bunny?
How do you get around the world in just one night? And what was with the beef jerky and Altoids in my basket last year?
Did someone say, “Jesus is Risen, but Brian needs a breath mint?”
Sign me up for anything that puts peanut butter in my chocolate or chocolate in my peanut butter. :batman:
Melissa Marsh Says:
Hands down - Cadbury Mini Eggs. OOOOOH. I usually devour three or four bags by this time of year. :chocolate:Unfortunately, all I’ve managed to get was a mini packet with about 7 or 8 of them which I stretched over the course of a week. This little to no sugar thing kinda sucks sometimes, especially when it comes to the holidays. Fortunately, dark chocolate is ok (in small amounts). I’ve grown rather fond of dark chocolate when before I used to always prefer milk chocolate.
Stacy Says:
I am a Cadbury love from waaaaay back. I remember my first Cadbury Creme Egg…I am so drooling right now.
After them, the chocolate bunnies with caramel inside–oh, what do you know, they are from Cadbury too:chocolate:
Emma Sinclair Says:
Y’all can keep the chocolate, but I LOVE jelly beans!!!
DH’s mother ususally sends ziplock baggies filled with those nasty coated chocolate eggs you described, M&M’s & Jelly beans and I can pick out every last jelly bean - except the black ones - those are yucky.
I also need at least one peep a year. It’s not easter until you have a peep!
Michelle Says:
Brian–I am omnipresent and omnipotent. This is how I travel to all houses in the blink of an eye. Careful, or I’ll put more breath mints in your basket!
Beth–I never share my Easter candy. And since I AM the bunny, I can buy whatever I want.
You guys are making me want to go buy my Easter candies!
MaryF Says:
I don’t like Cadbury original eggs, but I luuuurrrrve the caramel ones. And Reeses. No Peeps for me, but they used to be my grandmother’s favorites, and she’d give them up for Lent every year. I like to try the different kinds of chocolate bunnies, too.