Coffee Shop Cuties

So there are these two pre-teen (maybe ten?) girls in here. Did you know little kids still eat those "Dip n' Stick" things where you have this piece of candy that you dip into powder that is sweet-tart different colors? Just watching them is causing that mouth-water sour sensation in me. But in a "icky don't want it cause I'm a grown up" way. ::shudder::

So one of the girls is "the-friend-of-the-owner's" child, and the other is a best friend who's probably on a sleepover. I get the impression that the friend is being corrupted. Sugar snacks. Bagels WITH cream cheese*. A trip later to 7-11 where they will get her a frozen 7-up "cause she's never had one!"

I think of how I wish to try to keep my kids on a lower sugar veggie & fruit eating plan. I wonder if perhaps the best-friend-on-a-sleepover's parents are trying hard to keep their daughter from having frozen 7ups at 7-11. Ah well. I know that eventually my kids will discover McDonald's (probably while on a sleepover). But I take heart in knowing I will, in turn, corrupt the kids who come to my house with home-made sweet potato pancakes with toasted pecans. And fresh pineapple for dessert after dinner of sushi or maybe even Chicken Curry. Mwah ha ha hahahahahahaha.

But it's awfully, awfully, awfully cute. Little girls of that age are really and truly the bees knees.

*which she's never had either....