Well, two things if you include all the costumes, candy, and assorted ghoulishness that most people think is the main focus of the day. We like that stuff too, particularly the candy. We get a lot of trick-or-treaters at our house every year and we always try to buy slightly more than we give out, particularly of The Good Stuff (i.e. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which everyone in the house can actually eat as they contain no tree nuts or gluten and only acceptable levels of salt).
Reese’s: the king of candy.
No, that’s all background here, since the main event is Lauren’s birthday.
She’s hitting her Wisconsin Quinceanera, which would look more impressive with the tilde over the n but which we find just as festive either way. This year there will be friends over to hand out candy to the younger kids, pizza to fill up their starving teenaged bellies, and probably more laughter than is recommended in these parlous times but what is a celebration for except to run roughshod over such recommendations, anyway?
Eventually we’ll go out to dinner to celebrate, just within the family, but that won’t be tonight.
It always amazes me how my daughters have grown into such fine people. Maybe it shouldn’t. It was all there from the beginning. But we celebrate anyway, because that’s what should happen.
Happy birthday, Lauren.
I’m proud of you.
Oh, yes, a very happy Quinceanera indeed!
ReplyDeleteAnd, I have always wondered, how can you make peanut butter cups without tree nuts? inquiring minds really and truly do not have any desire to know.
Lucy
Well, peanuts aren't tree nuts, so that helps. :)
ReplyDeleteMostly it's a matter of avoiding cross contamination - that's what is so hard about candies, baked goods, and restaurant food.
Thanks for the well wishes! I will pass them along!
And now you know anyway, about the peanut butter cups. Ah well.
ReplyDelete(You really need to take your sarcasm detector in to the shop and have it checked out.)
ReplyDeleteLucy
It's been a long few weeks for a lot of reasons, so it's entirely possible that you're right about that.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I now have two bags of leftover Reese's Peanut Butter Cups to make disappear, so that might help.
I'd offer to help, but I'm seriously sensitive to not tree nuts.
ReplyDeleteI think.
Or perhaps it's just Reese's. Snickers seriously better.
Lucy
Snickers! Them's ... well, not really fightin' words, but still.
ReplyDeleteI have been known to consume more than my fair share of Snickers bars (especially the Midnight ones that are essentially the repackaged version of the old 1970s Forever Yours bars that apparently I was the only person in America who liked), but I'll take a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup over pretty much any other candy.
My problem now is that I am reaching a point where I max out on sugar a whole lot faster than I used to, which leaves my sorely deficient on my Gluttony scorecard.
Well, hell. Now that I look it up it's Milky Way Midnight, not Snickers. Blast and tarnation.
ReplyDelete"Sometimes you feel like a nut."
ReplyDeleteSometimes you just are.
Lucy