{"id":996,"date":"2012-09-01T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2012-10-12T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T17:55:42","slug":"that-smurfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/that-smurfs\/","title":{"rendered":"That Smurfs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-997\" title=\"http:\/\/kidscooking.about.com\/b\/2011\/07\/07\/french-toast-sticks-recipe.htm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/french_toast_sticks_aug22_2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/french_toast_sticks_aug22_2012.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/french_toast_sticks_aug22_2012-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/french_toast_sticks_aug22_2012-421x300.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ughh&#8230;I forgot to get french toast sticks at the grocery store yesterday.<br \/>\nI usually eat oatmeal for breakfast, but for some reason I&#8217;m really craving french toast sticks right now!<\/p>\n<p>David and the neighborhood kids taught me to yell out, &#8220;<em>That\u00a0Smurfs!<\/em>&#8221; when I need to get out any frustrations. \u00a0They know I don&#8217;t like it when they say &#8220;that sucks&#8221;, so they came up with an alternative &#8220;G rated&#8221; word that they could safely use. I&#8217;m not even sure what &#8220;smurfs&#8221; have to do with anything, but I must say that it makes me laugh&#8230;and it made me forgot all about my tragic french toast sticks dilemma just now!<\/p>\n<div>Do you have a &#8220;G rated&#8221; thing that you or your kids say that makes you feel better when an unwanted thing happens? (Like if you bump your head hard on something&#8230;or somebody cuts you off in traffic&#8230;or if you ram your shoeless toe into a corner&#8230;or you forget your french toast sticks!)<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><em>What innocent and fun thing do you say when you feel like swearing but don&#8217;t want to swear?!<\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 ~<br \/>\nNow on Facebook!\u00a0<a title=\"click here for my HISTG.com FB page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoneyIShrunkTheGrief\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoneyIShrunkTheGrief<br \/>\n<\/a>Now on Twitter!\u00a0<a title=\"click here for my HISTG.com Twitter page\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/EricVaiksnoras\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/EricVaiksnoras<br \/>\n<\/a>Check out my book!\u00a0<a title=\"my book \" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/book\/<br \/>\n<\/a>Feeling grateful? or feeling low?\u00a0<a title=\"HISTG Thank You Card blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/sign-the-thank-you-card-today\/\">Sign the Thank You Card!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click here to return to my home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyishrunkthegrief.com\/blog\/\">click here to return to home page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. &nbsp; Ughh&#8230;I forgot to get french toast sticks at the grocery store yesterday. I usually eat oatmeal for breakfast, but for some reason I&#8217;m really craving french toast sticks right now! 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