{"id":522,"date":"2009-12-23T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-12-23T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:21:00","slug":"chemical-soup-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Soup For Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SzJfyc6AL5I\/AAAAAAAAFxA\/hv9uf-unpSY\/s1600-h\/DSC05613.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SzJfyc6AL5I\/AAAAAAAAFxA\/hv9uf-unpSY\/s320\/DSC05613.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418498622037700498\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We have been accused of being food-y nuts, specifically healthy food-y nuts, ignorant organic lovers, snobby sugar hippies and so on and so forth (snicker snicker snort)&#8230; but this Mama broke out of her shell for tis the season&#8230; for TREATS!  I actually bought the kids some CANDY CANE CHOCOLATE FUDGE CRACKLE ICE CREAM!  They where so tickled (can&#8217;t remember the last time we have had ice cream in the house) and I figured it was an easy way to surprise my little foursome.<\/p>\n<p>It is so cute to watch them digging in to their little bowl of Christmas ice cream&#8230; one fist holding on to their bowls like we might change our minds and take them back; their other fist clasped in a strangle hold on the spoon just shoveling in the treat&#8230; eyes sparkle with the realization that this has LOTSA SUGAR and grins covered in chocolate and candy cane streaks spread wider and wider as the sugar hits the blood stream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It is even funnier to watch Daddy as they eat&#8230;  he spends the whole time giving me a disapproving look and mutter things like &#8216;instant insanity in a bowl&#8230;toxic waste for dessert&#8230; smells like chemical soup in a cup&#8230;tastes like a candy store&#8217;s dumpster exploding in your mouth&#8217;&#8230; (chuckle), he cracks me up! Note, he doesn&#8217;t have the heart to take the treat away or throw out the carton in the freezer, so he isn&#8217;t the big scrooge he pretends to be:)<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been accused of being food-y nuts, specifically healthy food-y nuts, ignorant organic lovers, snobby sugar hippies and so on and so forth (snicker snicker snort)&#8230; but this Mama broke out of her shell for tis the season&#8230; for TREATS! I actually bought the kids some CANDY CANE CHOCOLATE FUDGE CRACKLE ICE CREAM! They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,17,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}