Just got my hands on some Peppermint Wonderland tonight at our local Lucky's.The lady said ringing me out "Don't you think it is a little early to celebrate Christmas". I say NO it is never too early.
Just got my hands on some Peppermint Wonderland tonight at our local Lucky's.
I saw both Pumpkin Patch and Peppermint Wonderland at my local Walmart tonight, but I have some other ice cream I need to finish up first.
We have a Keurig and use it all the time! We buy the k-cups sometimes, but we actually just by our favorite coffee from Costco, grind it and use the reusable k-cup in the morning. We've used the tea & hot chocolate k-cups and they are great, but again sometimes just use it to boil water and use tea bags/hot chocolate packs.
We use it for a lot more than I thought we would. Anytime we need hot water, really. DH uses to make beans. Those cup o' soup things, which the kids use during Nutcracker season. I think ours was money well spent and couldn't imagine not having it now.
Speaking of Nutcracker, the girls had auditions today. That show is the pinnacle of the holiday season to me!
ETA: They do have Apple Cider. Also Caramel Apple Cider, which I may just have to order!
). Just 3 months ago, Jamie/DisneyJamieCA saw a stash of the ice cream at Grocery Outlet, but it seemed more like a leftover stash from the previous holiday season that hadn't sold yet. I saw some at my local CVS in April, and it had a bit of freezer burn on it. Even when I saw the ice cream in February, it didn't seem quite right.
Those who were here last year -- Jamie, TK, PHXscuba, siskaren, pudinhd, Gisele, etc. -- will remember the madness that ensued in the quest for the ice cream. Even the people who don't like peppermint ice cream at all -- such as Janet and Jenny -- will remember the madness of it all. It got to the point where I was hearing ice cream voices talking to me in the frozen foods section of the store, as the whimsical-yet-somewhat-diabolical snowman on the front of the carton tempted me with promises of pepperminty goodness.
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I am so excited to see that there have been official Peppermint Wonderland sightings by two different DIS'ers!!! Wheeeeeeeeee! Thank you so much, Jenasweetemotion and siskaren, for reporting back with your ice cream findings!
Now I am on the prowl, back to stalking the frozen food section once again!
It is funny what a difference a few months can make where the Peppermint Wonderland ice cream is concerned (and, again, remember that if all goes as it should go, this Dreyer's peppermint ice cream should be somewhere at Disneyland Resort when the season begins in November, but it may be in unexpected places and not in the actual ice cream shops, which is what happened last year due to some bizarre "tub size" issue
February, April and June all seem too early for Peppermint Wonderland. September, however... September is not too early at all, given the weird availability of that ice cream (in regular stores and in Disneyland)! Sometimes it is available and sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it is only Slow Churned that is available and not the yummier, pinker Grand version. It seems to disappear from my stores quickly, or it hides way behind the Pumpkin ice cream, making it difficult to find! When I do find it on the shelf, I seem to find no more than 3 or 4 cartons of it, and sometimes fewer than that.
So, this ice cream is a 'jump on it when I see it' sort of thing, because if I don't grab it I can't be sure that I will be able to find it again for a while. Dreyer's seems to either put out too little or too much of the ice cream and I never know which way they are going with it every year.
The Peppermint Wonderland Mania begins once again!
And so it begins again...
TK --
1) I pre-ordered A Snow Globe Christmas (thank you again for the heads up on that!), A Very Merry Mix-Up and The Christmas Ornament on Amazon. I had some leftover gift card money sitting in my Amazon account, and it was just enough to cover the movies! It serves a dual purpose because I will have the DVDs, but I can clear the movies off of my DVR and make room for the next wave of movies I will want to record!; and
2) Very, very nice photos you just posted! I am so impressed with that shot of the gingerbread house in HMH! I love the 2 photos immediately underneath it as well, and I love the photo with Jack Skellington
OHBelle --
You're absolutely right! Three days are better than zero days, especially after not visiting Disneyland for over 30 years! Depending on the people in question and what their specific interests are, many folks can get a lot done in 3 days -- or even all that they want to do. I think you'll have a great trip. Honestly, the holidays at Disneyland Resort are so beautiful and lively that I would even go for just one day to soak in as much holiday cheer as I could. You can get a lot of bang for your buck in a short period of time during the holiday season.
I loved Moonlight & Mistletoe too (with Tom Arnold and Candace Cameron Bure)! I do exactly what you do -- as soon as the Countdown to Christmas begins, I turn to the Hallmark Channel and it generally stays there as background sound while I am doing other things on the computer, throughout most of 2 months. Sometimes I have time to watch the movies so I do that too, of course, but I find that leaving the marathon on in the background is sort of the equivalent of leaving Christmas songs on in the background, but better -- it sets the mood and sort of creates a bubble of holiday cheer.
Plus, these Countdowns to Christmas are ways for me to catch up on the older Hallmark movies that have somehow escaped me. I think I have seen 75% of them, but there are some that I have just not made time or had time to watch. Every year I manage to watch at least a few that I have never seen before. I like the mix of the older and new movies.
Yes, pumpkin and peppermint do not go well together at all!In my separate Halloween Time at DLR Superthread I have been tracking all of the Fall/Harvest/Halloween goodies that have been popping up in stores since July, and the number of items with seasonal makeovers was really surprising to me. I could be wrong, but it seems as though the number of items with Fall versions has increased in the last couple of years, so I can only imagine how many cranberry/gingerbread/peppermint/pine items are headed our way this year too!
Then again, even though Halloween things began hitting the shelves in July (slowly), I didn't see my first Halloween TV commercial until a couple of days ago. It was still pretty early compared when Halloween commercials used to begin (in prehistoric days), but not as early as I expected given the appearance of pumpkin-y things on store shelves!
Since your birthday is the day before Halloween, does that mean you do a combo birthday-Halloween celebration every year, or do you celebrate the two days separately? I know that some people find that a birthday close to a holiday of any kind is a blessing, while others say it's a curse!
Other than that, I always thought it was two fun days in a row for me, especially when I was young.
Ok, I cheated a bit , these are from this weekend.
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You know that Bret is usually super fast about getting here, but I think he is slowed down by being at DLR right now for Halloween Time (and, by the way, I hope he is gulping down many Dole Whips -- which you know he loves -- while he is there, because it is HOT HOT HOT).
TK!
You were the first one to post for this week's theme (not counting myself)!
