Few things get the kids excited like hot chocolate with a large dab of whip cream. According to them, there’s never a bad time for a hot chocolate. Breakfast, lunch, dinner or late night snack are all ideal times for one.
The kids will try to rope Kim or I into making hot chocolate as a late night snack. They tell us it will help them go to sleep faster. I think the opposite is true but try telling them that.
Sometimes when I run a quick errand I’ll take one or two kids with me. I used to think they thought it was fun to take a drive in the new car. But I’m on to them now. What they really hope is they can convince me to pull into the gas station up the road from our house and pickup a hot chocolate.
This weekend I pickup up a few items at Fred Meyer which is attached to a Starbucks. I took Luca along with me and she was so well behaved I asked if she’d like to get a “special” hot chocolate at Starbucks. I ordered her a “Tall kids hot chocolate with whole milk, not too hot” and we sat at a table and talked. This is one of my favorite things to do with the kids. Luca sat at the table, her little legs dangling over the chair.
We were ready to go and I asked Luca, “Isn’t that the best hot chocolate you’ve ever had?” and Luca replied, “Dad, it’s so good….it’s almost as good as the one Grandpa Nordquist makes for me”.
That put a big smile on my face. I’ll assume she’s as excited to spend some time with dad as she is to get her very own hot chocolate.
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