Yes, you read that right. This really is a holiday!
About a week ago the weather started getting a bit colder and I got a sudden dreadful feeling of winter coming soon. I’m really not a winter fan. So I decided we should have more celebrations during the winter to get us through that season. All I did was google “Unusual Holidays” and found a whole dandy list of cool holidays to celebrate. There were some fun ones in August and September too, so we are starting with this one…National Toasted Marshmallow Day!
We were planning on going up to the mountains and toasting marshmallows around a nice fire and such, but today ended up being rainy. Mark’s Aunt came to town so we ended up expanding our celebration and making S’mores with extended family at my Mother-in-law’s house. It was really fun.
Did you know that there are different kinds of marshmallows now? While the kids and I were shopping for marshmallows and chocolate today, we were excited to discover pink Strawberry Marshmallows and Caramel Vanilla Marshmallows, as well as the regular plain white ones.
Since our bonfire didn’t work out, we were discussing several ways to toast the marshmallows–over the barbecue? On a cookie tray in the oven? After consulting with the Sweet’s Expert (Aunt Heidi) we decided the best and easiest way was just to make S’mores in the microwave. According to the expert, 12-13 seconds in the microwave is the perfect amount of time to make the perfect S’more–not to stiff, and not too exploded. BTW, Heidi is the Sweets Expert and she is also very sweet–maybe that’s why she gets along so well with those sugary confections. :)
So yummy!
Baby Carter liked ‘em too…
Kate even made a marshmallow graph–she took a survey of everyone’s favorite kind of marshmallow. What a great idea!
My sister-in-law pointed out that a marshmallow graph would be a fun thing to do in school or for a homework project to teach kids how to make tables. Yes! Good idea, kids would just eat that up! haha, I know, bad pun.
Looks like the Caramel Vanilla Marshmallows were the most popular. Good graphing table Kate!
So although our “toasted” marshmallows were really just microwaved, we still respect the marshmallow for all it’s worth and thoroughly enjoyed this day of celebration.
BTW, there is an unusual holiday almost every day. Most of them really are official, meaning they required an act of congress. Our family went through the calendar and chose about 1 or 2 a week to celebrate. Coming up September 5th is “Cheese Pizza Day.” September 9th is “Teddy Bear Day” or some call it “Teddy Bear Picnic Day.” (I like the second one better).
