Friday night plus a temperature of 64 degrees in Central Florida, equals sitting around out on our patio, building a fire in the fire pit and, yes, even making s’mores! This is what we did on Friday night. Tori thought with the cooler temperature it would be fun to introduce Connor to s’mores…so that’s exactly what we did.
Tori enjoying her s'mores!
It was a beautiful, clear night and since we just bought a brand new fire pit a couple of weeks ago and it hadn’t been used yet, the timing was perfect.
Tori & Connor with Randy tending to the fire
We had those really big marshmallows, some graham crackers and a huge Hershey’s chocolate bar that we broke into small pieces for our s’mores. Our biggest challenge of the night wasn’t keeping Connor away from the fire as we had feared…it was finding some wire coat hangers to use for roasting our marshmallows!
I went on a search for wire hangers in the laundry room, and discovered that we do still have a few of the wire relics hanging around. I really don’t care for wire hangers, so I’ve been phasing them out for years, but for some reason, I must have hung on to a few of them for their most useful purpose of all!
Although Randy and I didn’t grow up together, we were both raised in Central Florida. We both have many fond memories from our childhoods of times spent around a campfire or a bonfire roasting marshmallows and making s’mores…we also carried on that tradition with our children as they were growing up. I remember a few times we would build a fire in our fireplace so the kids could roast marshmallows! Yes, we have a fireplace in our home…that was actually a requirement for us before we would even consider a home to purchase. We live in Central Florida, we don’t have a swimming pool, but we do have a fireplace. We have our priorities.
I went on a search for wire hangers in the laundry room, and discovered that we do still have a few of the wire relics hanging around. I really don’t care for wire hangers, so I’ve been phasing them out for years, but for some reason, I must have hung on to a few of them for their most useful purpose of all!
Although Randy and I didn’t grow up together, we were both raised in Central Florida. We both have many fond memories from our childhoods of times spent around a campfire or a bonfire roasting marshmallows and making s’mores…we also carried on that tradition with our children as they were growing up. I remember a few times we would build a fire in our fireplace so the kids could roast marshmallows! Yes, we have a fireplace in our home…that was actually a requirement for us before we would even consider a home to purchase. We live in Central Florida, we don’t have a swimming pool, but we do have a fireplace. We have our priorities.
Randy with his s'mores
So…it is time to start teaching the next generation of our grandchildren the joys and pleasures of roasting marshmallows and making and eating s’mores. Connor loved it! Actually, we all did…it is something we will do more than once over the next few months when the weather is cool enough for us to sit outside and enjoy a fire.
Connor eating his first s'mores!
Ok…so you’re probably wondering about the after effects of the s’mores, aren’t you? With a toddler…well, shall I say that sticky was the word of the night? Oh. My. Goodness. What a sticky mess all of our hands were! But Connor took the cake, as the saying goes. He has chocolate and marshmallow stickiness on his face from on his little nose to down under his chin – sort of like a really gooey, sticky beard! His hands and forearms were similarly gooey. Ditto for the arms of the chair he was sitting in.
After he had finished his s’mores, he got down from his chair and toddled off into the yard to play with his little lawn mower. Tori decided the best way to clean him up was a bath, so she took him inside and he left his mower in the middle of the path leading to the house from the patio. When Randy and I were ready to go inside a little while later, I picked up the mower to move it and got a handful of not only a transfer of Connor’s s’mores, but also whatever yard debris had transferred from what he had touched! Yuck!
Regardless of the residual mess and stickiness, the night was a huge success! I hope you all will be able to sit outside by your fire pits and reminisce about your childhood adventures with roasting marshmallows or hotdogs over an open fire…Bon appetite!
After he had finished his s’mores, he got down from his chair and toddled off into the yard to play with his little lawn mower. Tori decided the best way to clean him up was a bath, so she took him inside and he left his mower in the middle of the path leading to the house from the patio. When Randy and I were ready to go inside a little while later, I picked up the mower to move it and got a handful of not only a transfer of Connor’s s’mores, but also whatever yard debris had transferred from what he had touched! Yuck!
Regardless of the residual mess and stickiness, the night was a huge success! I hope you all will be able to sit outside by your fire pits and reminisce about your childhood adventures with roasting marshmallows or hotdogs over an open fire…Bon appetite!
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