Day 8 – Candy Canes…Just What the Doctor Ordered

Hey Dad,

This may be one of the best Christmas tips of the month, and it couldn’t be any easier.

Buy a box of candy canes.

Oh, I know what your health loving wife would say, “Yes, but they’re solid sugar!”

My point exactly and that’s what makes them so good. I know nothing brightens up a humdrum night like a candy cane. The great thing about the time in which we live, is that candy canes come in all kind of flavor, colors, and sizes. Actually, last night I picked up a box of Sweettart flavored candy canes, and we all slurped on them as we watched one of our favorite Christmas DVDs, An Eloise Christmas.

In fact, if you want to blow your child away, get one of those big candy cane sticks about the thickness of your thumb. Not only will their eyes pop when you hand it to them, but they’ll be licking it for days.

Even if you don’t like candy canes there are lots of holiday treats to choose from. I’ve picked up marshmallow twist sticks, holiday suckers, old fashioned hard candy, snowman shaped snack cakes, holiday iced cookies, and my all time favorite…Christmas tree shaped ice-cream.

I’m telling you, Dad, this is the stuff that is remembered forever…and it’s relatively inexpensive. Forty years from now, someone will hand your child a white and red striped candy cane, and he’ll think, “My dad used to get us these.”

So stop by Wal-Mart, CVS, or the gas station on the way home and pick up something….sweet.

You ‘da dad,

Todd

PS – Cracker Barrel sells a gigantic, TWO pound candy cane that would give a dentist a heart attack. Yeah, man!!! Here’s what it looks like.