Yesterday turned out much better than I had anticipated and this weekend looks like it will be relaxing but fun instead of the coffee, cookie, sleep binge I had been craving.
Little Abe and I ran to the dollar store this morning just sort of to get away and I was hoping they'd have supplies for two projects I have planned for today. Nope. Then we went to the grocery store which I had not wanted to do but it was a pretty successful trip (and not a huge budget buster). I found a solar light (that I was hoping to find at the dollar store) for pretty cheap, got a cheap bag of flour for paper mache we're going to do today, and we picked up popcorn kernels for a super yummy treat.
We haven't had a microwave for probably over a year now. When the one we had died (which was a pretty darn new microwave) we just never bought a new one. The ONLY thing we miss having the microwave for is popcorn. I thought to buy a popcorn popper but just never have. Today however after little Abe spied a few different bags of pre-popped popcorn at the store (which were all packed with the wonderful list of artificial this and chemical that) I picked up a bag of kernels and told him we'd make some on the stove when we got home (they are non-GMO kernals too).
The popcorn has been popped. My husband called me a lunatic (literally) as I stood at the stove gently moving the pan of un-popped popcorn kernels back and forth. What has this world come to when a grown man thinks that popping popcorn on the stove top is an alien endevour? The popcorn is SOOOOO delicious (and there's not a single burnt piece in the lot of it)!
Today's plans
Start a paper mache shelving unit for little Abe's room
Craft a solar powered night light for little Abe's room
Stove top popcorn DONE
Spend a relaxing Saturday with the kiddo (my third shift hubby has gone to sleep for the day already)
Despite the cold and the back and forth rain snow, I'm in a much better mood then I was yesterday. Something about activities and attempts at anything new helps put much needed motivation back into my life. I will for sure be updating you all on the night light and the shelves.
Stove popped popcorn is the best. What did he think folks do with the kernels? I never liked the air popped version-too dry, but a tiny amount of oil with the kernels, a touch of butter and popcorn salt, and better than the movie theatre, and so cheap. You are teaching little Abe how popcorn is done right.
ReplyDeleteIt was for sure the best popcorn I've had in ages! I don't think I've personally every popped any on the stove, at least I do not remember ever doing so but I knew it could be done. We should have done this a long time ago!
DeleteI'm rather looking forward to seeing the papier mache project. I love the artwork that the two of you do.
ReplyDelete:) It's going to take a really long time to complete the whole thing but I'll post updates I'm sure. We're about to get started on our first installment of mess making in a few minutes.
DeleteI am old enough to have never known anything but stove-popped popcorn until much later in life. Why did your husband think you were crazy for using the stove?
ReplyDeleteHe'd honestly never known anyone to do it that way, or apparently that that was the way it used to be done. He thought I was doing some sort of crazy experiment. That's what I meant by "what is this world coming to?" There are so many things that just used to be normal that SO many people have never even heard of, like stove top popcorn.
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