So how many of you have heard about Pinterest? The site that can keep you completely occupied for hours - a mind-boggling sucker of time. And yet, so addicting. You wouldn't believe how many great ideas I've found on Pinterest. Like I posted on Facebook not so long ago, I've found so many amazing things for my wedding! Too bad I got married 13 year ago.
So many cool ideas. The problem is, how many of them do you suppose I'll actually do?
Well. That's where the blog comes in. Every Monday for the next conceivable future, I will be posting on something that I made, cooked, organized, or whatever else, based on an idea from Pinterest. Should be interesting.
So since today is Monday, and since I've just announced that Monday's will be Pinterest days, here goes. My very first Pinterest experiment.
Did you know.. (AMAZING what one learns from Pinterest!) that when you mix baking soda and peroxide with Mountain Dew, the Mountain Dew glows like a light-bulb? Huh? Did you know that? I didn't know that either until Pinterest educated me. What a fun "science" experiment to do with the kids, right? And for those of you who are new here, by "kids", I mean our friend's kids. Since we don't have any of our own, we are owners of and participators in the Rent-A-Kid program. Never heard of it? Well now you have. We rent them for a time and give 'em back.
So anyway, I arrived at Karen and Nathan's house with 4 bottles of Mountain Dew and much fan-fare. I told those kids that we were going to do the COOLEST thing EVER with Mountain Dew. We were going to turn it into a FLASHLIGHT. They were duly impressed and couldn't wait to give it a try. However, I made them wait until we were done making our chicken mummy. Yeah, that's another post.
After the chicken was on it's merry way to mummization, we got out the baking soda, peroxide and Mountain Dew. I started, in my best teacher voice, to explain chemical reactions to a 7-yr-old, a 6-yr-old, a 5-yr-old, and a 2-yr-old. They weren't much interested in chemical reactions, per say. I'd say they were more results-oriented. They just wanted to see the Mountain Dew, in all of it's sugary glory, glow.
We turned off all the lights and gathered 'round. I carefully spooned in the baking soda. I measured out the peroxide and slowly poured it into the bottle. I capped the lid on tight and shook that bottle like it was my own personal earthquake. And then we stared at it, waiting for it to glow.
And we stared at it some more.
Nothing.
Nada.
No go on the glow.
Wanting to salvage just a little dignity, and in addition not pass up a teaching moment, I recovered by stating emphatically to the kids:
"..and THAT, kids, is why we don't believe everything we read on the internet."
They didn't think that was quite as funny as I did.
I'm hoping next week's Pinterest review will be a little more glowing than this week's was.
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