Comments on: Package of Joy

By: Noreen

Noreen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:05:34 +0000

Giggle to giggle
play with something in a way it was never intended (make a tower out of pot and pans)
giggle some more

By: Jennifuzz

Jennifuzz — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:17:53 +0000

Ditto on the smiling thing.

Jump on the bed.

Laugh a lot. And hard. Until you give yourself hiccups.

Play the same game with your toddler. Over and over and over and over and over and… well, you get the point.

Dance like a maniac… who cares who is watching?

Stick green beans in your nose and call yourself a walrus.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:56:26 +0000

Just smile and wave at random people. Kids love to do this. Adults are too stuffy to do this.

By: falwyn

falwyn — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:53:28 +0000

Dude, that is the funniest thing I’ve seen all week!

Returning to a childlike state: make (I crocheted, but you can just print!) a small pink kitten and then walk with your kids for an hour, all of you taking pictures of it in different places. (See my latest entry for a small taste of this…)

By: The Silly Witch

The Silly Witch — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:33:52 +0000

What the heck? Who wouldn’t want an ABC cookie cutter?

By: kadusey

kadusey — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:28:34 +0000

What cute cookie cutters. My DH tends to think I’m pretty silly and little kid-ish when I go around making random sound effects to the things he’s doing, or randomly hum a tune or sing a song with silly words about whatever I happen to be doing at the moment. I also like to take bubble baths and give myself bubble crowns and bubble beards.

By: KYouell

KYouell — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:43:52 +0000

Sneak a snack when no one is looking. You know your kids do (or will do) that when you aren’t. My fave is this chocolate glaze on vanilla ice cream. I get to have it when they nap at the same time as a victory snack. That means now.

1 pound of bittersweet chocolate
1/2 pound of butter

Melt, stir, indulge.

Notes: Trader Joe’s Pound Plus bar works great. You can make a small batch with no adjustments. Unsalted butter works too, but I add a bit of salt then because I like chocolate and salty (not a lot of salt though).

Helpful math: If you use the Trader Joe’s bar here are the proper proportions for smaller batches.
20 squares + 1 stick of butter
10 squares + 1/2 stick of butter (4 tablespoons)
5 squares + 2 tablespoons of butter

Enjoy! And I hope I win. I like random.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:38:25 +0000

I have to win a contest sometime…have to.

By: ~velia

~velia — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:21:32 +0000

Be a child…? Sounds like fun! I would:
skip everywhere

tell complete strangers the absolute honest truth about their teeth and hairy body parts

ask more strangers if they have a baby in their tummy

put a bean up my nose

stick my head out of a moving car window and stick out my tongue with my mouth open wide until my tongue dries out completely and then play with my dry tongue until I have to slurp saliva (feels so cool!).

eat dirt

kiss and snuggle with wet, smelly dogs

jump in mud puddles in my best shoes

burst into random song

scribble

and best of all – TAKE NAPS!

By: ClistyB

ClistyB — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:50:01 +0000

go to the toystore and buy YOURSELF the toy you always wanted, but never got as a kid!!
use the cookie cutters to make cookies late after the kids are in bed, and eat the whole bunch of them to test em out, you know – make sure they’re not poisonous!!