My best days are when I can surprise the kids with fun things. Of course, that’s their funnest days as well. 
We stayed home almost all weekend, played Halloween Bingo, watched some Halloween movies in between football games & read several books. It was a rare weekend where we didn’t really have anything planned other than grocery shopping (and laundry, of course!) I love cooking for my family when my husband is home. It’s always a rat race when he’s not, so I try to completely enjoy the process when he’s around, so this weekend I thoroughly enjoyed taking my time & making good & fun food for all of us to enjoy.
So last week I got the idea of making a Halloween drink for the kids, as in a Spooky Shirley Temple.
And it just so happened that Target has all the Halloween Peeps & Pop Rocks on sale this week & I already had this pack of googly eyes from Michael’s. All I needed to do was to create the drink part.
But guess what??? I cheated. I used Sunkist Orange Soda & poured it into plastic glasses, that were rimmed with the Pop Rocks. If you didn’t know by now, I’ll take a short cut whenever possible. Life & weekends are too short, plus I happen to have the most forgiving kids. Although, they would never know the difference between a real Shirley Temple & a faux. All they knew is that it was in their words, “AWESOME, Mom!”
It’s nothing grand, and by all means it’s the easiest thing to make. But the look & hearing their reactions were priceless. Sometimes it really is the most simplest things, that make all the difference. It probably took me all of 3 minutes to make these. It took waaaaaay longer to take the pictures & do this post than it took to make these & drink them down.
Extra bonus, the pop rocks pop just a little bit more with the carbonation of the Sunkist Orange Soda. All I know is “CHEERS” to a low key weekend & an easy recipe that your kids will talk about for days.