Chocolate overload!

Easter. Oh my goodness, Easter. All done and dusted for another year and I imagine it is quite a challenge to head back to work today and snap back to reality after four days of fun. What a weekend! It was so wonderful catching up with friends and family and especially wonderful having hubby home for the four days (mind you, it took three days for him to settle/be forced into useful husband and father mode)!! My childhood memories of Easter are totally awesome...chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate, but now that I am a parent, it has taken on a whole new spin. I have gone from “Yay, chocolate!!” to “Bloody chocolate”...

Now don’t get me wrong, I am very appreciative of the spoiling my kids got from our gorgeous family and the Easter Bunny, but Sophie, Elliott and I have been locked in an ongoing chocolate battle since Sunday that doesn’t look to be ending any time soon. We have more chocolate in this house than the kids would consume in a year (I am one of those “do as I say, not as I do” kind of Mum’s when it comes to junk food J) and all I hear is whinging and “I want some chocolate” umpteen dozen times a day! I am not surprised though because on Sunday, I was really loose and just let the kids have whatever they wanted...they even tried red soft drink for the first time in their lives (funny how much more relaxed you are with your second child...Sophie had to wait until she was 4 to try red soft drink but Elliott is only 1 and happily took his first guzzles!!) The only saving grace is the electric toothbrushes Easter Bunny gave to the kids which are very novel for them at this stage. Sophie is in the bathroom several times a day cleaning her teeth and pipes up that she can have even more chocolate as long as she cleans her teeth afterwards J

All in all it was a lovely Easter but I am still left with the question of what to do with all this chocolate?? There is no way the kids will be eating it all and if I eat it all, I will really be undermining my plans to be fit and healthy (yes, plans...the healthy Kate is still somewhat in the making). Perhaps I can melt some of the chocolate down and make chocolate biscuits and chocolate cakes to take to friends houses for morning tea? Or maybe the kids can have a play day of melted chocolate in the bath and draw in it, slide in it and just have a chocolaty ball licking it off their fingers, arms and legs! I think that is what I will do, they will love it!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend and good luck getting back into the swing of things today xox

PS – In saying all of the above, I have to admit that in an effort to write today’s blog uninterrupted by Elliott, I sat him at the bench with a bowl of chocolate and didn’t hear boo out of him...perhaps chocolate isn’t as terrible as first thought J