Friday, August 19, 2011

The Chocolate Tower

I felt stuffed.

Clearly, I shouldn’t have gone for all those desserts.

But they all looked so good! Golden Corral has fabulous desserts.

And the chocolate tower....

“Mommy? Can I get this? I love him.” Natalie reached over and plucked a stuffed lion from the shelf at Wal-Mart. She hugged it to her chest. It was the fifth toy she had picked up, hugged, and proclaimed that she loved it.

“No more toys,” I reminded her. After all, her room is filled with toys. Where will anything go when it’s Christmas? It’s hard to make her get rid of things. Because naturally she’ll hug all of THOSE toys and go, “I love this! I can’t say goodbye!” I remind her that there are kids who have nothing and don’t we want to give those kids toys? And then she nods and hands me a block. “For the kids,” she’ll say generously.

Man, I really need to take her to a homeless shelter or something. So she can appreciate everything she has. So she’ll understand that a block isn’t going to cut it.

“Say goodbye to the lion,” I told Natalie, taking it from her arms.

“Goodbye lion,” she said dramatically. She even gave a sigh. Then her eyes brightened when she saw a baby Rapunzel doll from the movie Tangled. “Mommy!” she yelped. “Can I get this? I LOVE her!”

Ugh. Bringing her into the toy section is a bad idea. But if I don’t, then the entire time we’re at the store she’s like, “Toys? Toys? Are we looking at the toys? I’d really like to look at the toys. When will we see the toys?”

It’s why I like to shop when she’s in school.

But I was at Wal-Mart with Tom—it still feels odd to write it—Tom, my husband, who was in Korea for a year—and we wanted to look at the grills.
But before we could look at grills, we had to look at toys.

“Mommy! Look! It’s Snow White! Can I get her? I LOVE her!” Natalie breathed. She even pressed a palm over her mouth as though seeing a plastic version of Snow White was the best thing she’d ever seen in her life.

Eventually, we were able to get away from the toys and went to the section where the grills were. Tom prefers charcoal grills, as do I. He was flipping through the instructions on the display because some grills want you to put together EVERYTHING. And while Tom is a wonderful handyman, even he has his limits. (But seriously, screwing together one handle bar is a bit much…)

After the grills (we didn’t buy one yet) we went to check out—but we had to stop because Natalie saw a display of Angry Birds toys and got excited.

“Bad birds! I want to hug a Bad bird!” Natalie yelped.

Yes. Even though we’ve told her over and over that it’s Angry birds, she insists on calling them Bad birds.

After all the (bad) birds were hugged, we were able to leave.

And I still felt huge.

But…

Tell me, could you turn this down?



31 comments:

  1. No frigging way I would leave without a piece of each in my belly.

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  2. Haha. We went out with the office for dinner last night, and I could have lived on the desserts they offered. Tiny cake towers, at least half a dozen varieties... alas I couldn't try them all. (I *tried*, though.)

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  3. I haven't been to Golden Corral in a long time! I'm not fond of buffets... but I will have to go again just for that chocolate fountain! :o)

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  4. Since you were so "stuffed", I'm surprised Natalie didn't hug & squeeze & ask if she could have you.

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  5. I am the same way with dessert buffets. You should take a cruise, you'd love the chocolate buffets:)

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  6. Aww at least she's willing to give up a toy or two when you tell her it's for the kids.
    I could go for some desserts right about now.

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  7. OOOH yum, dessert buffets get me every single time!!

    We are having a garage sale next weekend and so far I've gotten the kids to fill up a pretty big box with their stuff to sell...hoping they don't change their minds before the sale! :)

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  8. Nope, I couldn't turn it down. Yum Yum Yum

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  9. Dude. That is a lot of chocolate.

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  10. Mmmm, all those sweets look so good!

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  11. *insanely jealous* i adore adore adore Golden Corral. sadly, they don't have them here in southern cali...the nearest one to me is 3 hours away but I swear, I'll roadtrip it out there VERY soon. AAAAND blog about it. :P

    http://mexicanmisfit.blogspot.com

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  13. I wanna hug that dessert bar. I LOVE IT! And I also enjoy Natalie's dramatic approach to the toy section!

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  14. As long as no one gives Natalie a credit card, it'll all be fine. :P And to walk away from the chocolate would have been wrong. Plain wrong.

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  15. I've seen the angry birds toys, and even I have a hard time resisting them. And the Golden Corral is crazy full of must haves!

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  16. Golden Corral's dessert bar is dangerous. The soft-serve ice cream with all the toppings? Heaven when drizzled over a fresh, hot brownie. And now I'm going to whine until Josh takes me to Golden Corral. ;)

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  17. I love a good buffet! Very dangerous. And how could you resist when I can just picture how cute she was ;)

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  18. I despise Buffets. Jerk Face LOVEs them.. so much so that he would hug them :) ..but when I am FORCED to go.. I tend to hang out in the dessert area :)

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  19. If you put the toys to donate in the basement for a month and no one asks for them, they've forgotten them and you're in the clear. ;)

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  20. I've never been to Golden Corral but I loooove dessert so maybe I should go :)

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  21. No I could not turn that down, looks yummy! And I was hoping to hear that Tom also went from grill to grill, hugging them, proclaiming "Can we please get it I love it?!"

    :)

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  22. Now I want some dessert, from a buffet, so that i can eat only dessert!

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  23. NO, I can never turn down a chocolate fountain, to the point where I dream of owning my OWN chocolate fountain someday...it has been on my Covet List in the past, but I had to take it off after finally admitting to myself that I would never eat anything again that was NOT dipped in chocolate, and the desire to still fit into my clothes was just too damn strong.

    But all bets are off when i chance upon one at a buffet!

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  24. Oh, absolutely not! First I would lick the icing off of that cake. I exercise too much and don't allow myself such delights - which is why I now have to exercise! I just want to pull up a chair and eat it ALL!

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  25. OMG! We have a Golden Corral where we just moved. I've never been but now I want to go! :) I don't care how stuffed I was, I'd go for that chocolate fountain!

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  26. Sheesh, even I (she of the non-sweet-tooth) feels tempted.. I can resist anything but cheesecake, and that looks suspiciously like a scrummy cheesecake to me..!

    Oh Lord, I well remember those early days of shopping with my brood - the amound of times I exited a store only to find one of them, still strapped in the double buggy, had purloined another toy of their desire. They deserved a rap sheet thicker than War and Peace before they reached three.

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  27. Dessert.....must run to freezer now for ice cream. Thanks for making today's diet an epic fail.

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  28. I wish I could eat all that...darn this no carb diet! Sounds like you enjoyed enough for me too, though!

    WM

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