It is so, so much more! It's a family that lives for Christmas, a family that thrives on traditions and a family that celebrates Christmas Eve with the best dessert that was EVER made!! The Twinkie Dessert! Which you can see HERE!
I truly don't know how other's don't know of this…I am 48 years old and I have NEVER, EVER experienced a Christmas Eve without my mother's famous Twinkie Dessert!
I've been catching bits and pieces of the Twinkie disaster on Rick and Bubba but hey, I know they love Twinkies so truth be told…I didn't take it very seriously!!
Until today on my treadmill! After 30 minutes of dying…I changed the channel to try and find 'Earth Wind and Fire' or 'Michael Jackson' to get me through the hills and then I actually heard this same news on a boring, ALL news station! Now don't get me wrong, the news that I trust comes from Rick and Bubba and I'm more than proud of that fact! They boil it down to the bare bones and I know I can trust what they have to say! But to hear something about Twinkies on another station made for a phone call to my mother…it was something like this….
Me: Mom, have you heard about this Twinkie thing?Mom: Yes, I did and I meant to stop by the store and get some. I can't believe I forgot to do that.
Me: Mom, really? They are auctioning them on Ebay right now…we are in big trouble!
Mom: Well, while y'all are out tonight just stop and get some!
( Me, in my head…oh, really? I know what this will be like…it will be just like the beany baby craze that we all went through and I found myself in parts of town that I would NEVER go to now just to get a McDonald's Happy Meal so Miller could have the latest beany baby toy! This won't be good, Mom!)
So guess what, Jim and I found ourselves at Target only to find empty shelves of Twinkies…
But we found the game I've been dying for! Thanks to hearing it played on Rick and Bubba we are planning to do this soon! Sounds like fun!
And then we were at several gas stations since Jim ALWAYS needs gas…at that point we began calling all of our local grocery stores only to be told by breathless store clerks who ran up and down the isles looking for the beloved Twinkie that they were indeed out of them or that they thought they might have one box left…well, I knew that was no good so I made one more call to the Winn Dixie on Valleydale Road! I haven't been there since carpool days…it almost made me sad to go back and see everything!
ALMOST!!!
Then, no lie…after 3 minutes and 98 seconds a sweet cashier named Renae came back on the line and told me on speaker phone ( since I'd been perusing the shelves at Chevron all the while!) that they indeed had 3 boxes of regular and 2 boxes of Chocolate Twinkies! I was stunned!
Me: I'll take the three boxes
Renae: The regular or the chocolate?
Me: For the Love….the regular…we will be there in less than 5 minutes!!
I frightened even myself!
Then, I met Kevin! And my whole night changed for the better! He was reluctant at first to get his picture made but after the cute cashier told him to smile…smile he did!
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| I will always love this Chick Fil A ad! It is by far my favorite! |
You have to love our world! We are reckless and careless about the really important things…but by golly, you mention the end of Twinkies and I'm on fire!
ONLY and Simply because it is my families' longest standing tradition for Christamas Eve Dinner!
Can you blame me? Please try this dessert! IF and only If you can find Twinkies! Good luck!
I hope you all have the best Thanksgiving ever!
Here is the original recipe! I am dedicating this to my precious niece, Kathryn!
Please check it out!!
Just promise you will remember that I posted this ages ago! Not just tonight when the world is going crazy over Twinkies!
