Cheep Peep S'mores

So last night I decided to have some fun with the children. Imani is on her way to Senior prom, the house was full of teenagers abuzz with the excitement of what Saturday evening is going to bring them. I'm just a background product. I'm just Mother and nothing more. SIGH.....
So for relief from how it feels to no longer be the number one person in my child's life as she slips into adulthood, I reach for what I know she used to love and ME? I hated. Peeps.
A trip to the Dollar General Store where we live offers up a great array of clearance items to make any sweet tooth scream with excitement. I found a basket of Easter Items that were on clearance complete with Easter Baskets, chocolate, grass, toys and pink and blue peeps. Oh it was oh so wonderful to see them because it brought back wonderful memories of a chubby Imani begging me to buy Peeps and bring them home. Yellow ones, blues ones, pink or purple she wanted them and would devour them before the day was out. Marshmallows are a sinful treat she enjoyed when it was just she and I and a trip to a local store depending on where we lived.
So this evening I stood in the kitchen after my trip to the dollar store and decided that since the peeps would not sit long before they would age more, why not just make s'mores? How cute would that be?....and she could share them with her friends who were over as well.
Simple recipe really.
Graham Crackers, only the best chocolate, and peeps. I simply assembled them as KJ, Lili and Anthony ate peeps by the handfuls. (They WERE only 37 cents by the way) I simply placed them in the oven at about 350 degrees and waited for the chocolate and marshmallow peeps to melts down. EASY PEASY!


The finished products was so pretty! They screamed in that Peep voice "Eat me! Enjoy my soft, mushy goodnes! I've got that chocolatey smoothness you love you know you want me."
I served the little ones on small saucers and watched my kitchen counter and floor become the color of chocolate. Lovely.
All of a sudden here come the crew of "I think I'm grown adults teenagers preparing for prom at my home"
They love s'mores, they are still five year olds at heart. I look at them and remember when they were all tiny people in elementary school, junior high and all of their activities. High school and a teen age pregnancy for one and they are still close. Now Anthony has tons of Tee Tee's and Uncles standing right here with him enjoying the same thing he loves. Something sweet and comforting that expresses in this simple act by the oldest thing in the room,......I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.

Til Next Time On The Air


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