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Apparently the candy bar, “Butterfinger” has updated their recipe.

I guess I was pretty naive in my thinking, because I never stopped to think about each candy bar needing a recipe.  I know, pretty silly.  But I just envisioned a magical place where you watching the ingredients enter one side of this giant machine and come out the other side all put together and deliciously perfect.  A bit like the machine in Wily Wonka that makes the gum that tastes like a full Turkey dinner.  It made a lot of funny noises and then *POP!* out came a fun looking piece of gum.

But back to the Butterfinger.  They changed up their recipe after they had recently been bought by a new company.  I guess the new owner wanted to update things–claiming to have a fresher, crisper bar.  Well, I’ve tasted it and I’m sorely disappointed.  In my opinion, it has completely lost the flavor of a Butterfinger!  It is definitely more crunchy, but that wasn’t why I would pick that candy bar in the first place, so that doesn’t sway me.

And I’m not the only one to have these negative opinion of the new bar. It’s pretty amusing how strongly people have responded against the new recipe.  I’m curious if they will keep it or eventually change back… only time will tell.

So, go buy a Butterfinger and let me know what YOU think.  😉

The other morning (when it was brutally, painfully, terribly cold–but I’m pretty sure I already established that cold thing yesterday…) Chloe had to take a shower that morning just before leaving for the bus.  Since she didn’t have time to dry her hair before leaving we just tucked her hair ALL up under her stocking hat.

Now, I’m not sure exactly what caused it (maybe the heat of her head, or the wetness of her hair, or the extreme cold or a combination of all three) but she had long hair like ice strings on the outside of her hat!  I couldn’t tell if it was the fuzzies on her hat that had just collected ice or if it was actual strings of ice… Regardless, it was pretty amusing!

Well, November hit and it got cold.  It actually snowed here on November 1st (and has snowed a couple more times since then) but it hasn’t stayed.  Today when we walked down to the bus stop it was 3 degrees.  Brrr!  Yesterday when we got up it was a little warmer (13 degrees), but the wind made it feel like it was -3.  Double Brrr!   It feels like we bypassed Fall and went straight into winter.  I have even had a few students come to their lesson and tell me they have already put up their Christmas tree!

In other news, which you could probably have guessed–Tim is officially done with his work season.  No more nannies! Yippie!

I read a book over the weekend–it was a fun read.  It was written by the wife of the comedian we went to see last year.  She discovered she had a large tumor in her brain sitting directly on her brain stem.  The book is about how she discovered it, had it removed, and then had to deal with the aftermath of all of that (one of the complications being unable to swallow for weeks).  As I mentioned she is the wife of the comedian, Jim Gaffigan.  She also does a lot of the writing for him–so they are both very funny.  It was a fascinating read–especially since I’ve never experienced anything like that.  Plus I’m not funny.  (tee hee!) So it’s fun to read someone who is funny.  😉  Oh, yes and she has 5 kids.

Guess who made it into 5th Grade Student Council?

This girl!!

She tried out for student council in 3rd and 4th grade and didn’t make it in, so she went into this year feeling a little dejected.  It’s a hard lesson to let your child learn that just you might be wonderfully suited for something, you may still not get to do it… and in this case it was a hard lesson to learn 2 years in a row.  But this was her year!  She will do an awesome job, I’m sure, and is THRILLED to finally get her chance.

It was a bit on the chilly side for trick or treating last week (hence the stocking hats under the costumes…) but we still managed to have a good time.  (Unfortunately the two other families that were going to go out with us came down sick.  It’s really been going around lately!)  Levi hurt his ankle right before we left to walk around the neighborhoods, so I had to push him around in the stroller, which he thought was awesome.  Ha!  I sure got my steps in that night!

This year we had: Mike Wazowski (from Monsters Inc.), a cute sailor girl, Captain America and a bat ballerina.