Chocolat

Apparently my definition of A LOT and Scott's definition of a lot doesn't exactly match up.  You see Scott was in Belgium all last week and since my personal motto is "when in Belgium, buy chocolate," I told him he had to bring back lots of chocolate for me.  He did his best and this is what he came up with  -- definitely not much by MY standards, but certainly enough to indulge in for the last few days.

 

He also {unknowingly} brought some chocolate back for the wunderkinden that is prohibited in the USA due to a 1938 FDA Act that bans the sale of "confectionery product[s] with a non-nutritive object, partially or totally imbedded within it, unless the FDA issues a regulation that the non-nutritive object has functional value."  Whoops.  Hahahaha.  According to Wikipedia, one of these "Kinder" eggs was seized from a woman's car during a random inspection while entering the US from Canada on January 10th of last year.  During this "seizure" she was also informed that bringing the egg into the United States could result in a $300 fine.  Yikes -- Scott brought back 6 of them!

 

Inside this plastic egg was a little plastic toy/figurine.  Very non-nutritive indeed.  Hahaha.

Half of my chocolate (and all of the kids') is already gone.  But that's okay.  The important thing is that I survived the week on my own and Scott is now back to help me!  Next thing on my horizon?  The "Roots n Blues n BBQ Half-Marathon" coming up on Saturday.  Now that I've finally gotten all the baby-sitting I need lined up for the big day, I've got nothing to worry about!

 Poor little supermuppet -- no Belgian chocolate for her.