Choco Enpitsu

What was your favorite school supply as a child? Mine was a Crayola box of 64 crayons. Boy did I love choosing from all the colors to create coloring-inside-the-line masterpieces. (Yes, I was quite good at coloring inside the lines. Don’t be hatin’—it’s not too late for you to master the skill of coloring.) I did have a crayon color I cherished above all the others, though: Cornflower. I would use this light-blue crayon for special pictures, sharpening and unpeeling its paper wrapper only when necessary.

I know that these days, school supplies have changed. They come in more colors, shapes, sizes, brands, uses, etc.

And school supplies can be edible.

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Yan Yan

Why is it that, when you want kids to wake up, they don’t? And you want them to sleep—like now!—they won’t? I found myself wishing for the first thing recently with Olivia and her twin siblings. So I found something to keep me occupied while they napped.

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Thomas the Tank Engine Hard Candy

I searched. I sniffed. I searched and sniffed. All the while asking myself, as I walked from one candy display to the next, “What do I get my favorite candy sniffer who’s turning four?” I got Olivia this. Because not only is it candy and in green, her favorite color, but it’s also a Thomas the Tank Engine candy. Olivia is a girl of many obsessions. Must be why I adore her so much.

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Crunky

Crunky.

Crunky.

CRUNKY.

Crunky!

When you first saw the word crunky, what did you think? It sounds like a negative adjective to me, like, “The service at the restaurant was crunky. Especially when that server….”

It just doesn’t sound like the name of a candy bar…

Nope, certainly not a Japanese one…

I need to get to the crunch of the matter, yes I think I do.

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