Cotton Candy

Just before we left for Wyoming I was in Kohl’s department store with the India and Maia when we saw a cotton candy making machine on sale. I love cotton candy. So do my kids. It was on sale for goodness sakes. In the cart it went. However, I was so busy getting ready to go away that last day or two that we never did get to try it. Today Evan was very helpful to me. He was digging post holes for goat play things and also cleaned out the entire old chicken coop in preparation for the new chicks I am expecting to arrive this week. The payment that he requested was to fire up the new cotton candy machine.

It was easy. And surprisingly, it actually worked! Now we didn’t get big fluffy balls of cotton candy like you’d get at the local fair, but they were smaller versions of the same thing. The strangest part of it was if you didn’t use the ‘cotton candy sugar’ that came with the kid but tried using the Countrytime hard candy that they also provided, you got something that looked just like cotton candy, but tasted like lemonade. You can even use sugar free candy in it! I’m trying that next.

I’ll do a more substantial post on this machine soon, but I just thought it was so fun I wanted to share.

I feel bad that India and Maia weren’t here to try it out for the first time. They are going to be so jealous when they read about it in my letters that I wrote to them tonight.

Here’s a bad photo of me trying it for the first time courtesy of Evan.