Sugar Plums and Snowy Days

What is this little boy doing on such a snowy day?

Could it be he found a sugar plum?

If so, where did he get it?





Miss Forbis had just read Night Before the Night Before Christmas to the class. No, not the famous poem – rather Natasha Wing's funny book that begins “Oh, no! It's the day before Christmas Eve.”






And we had just played drums while Miss Paula played Tchaikovsky’s “Sugar Plum Fairy” (from The Nutcracker) on her ipod player. (Watch it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDdiWylEJO0 )

All this to-do about sugar plums. But just what was a sugar plum anyhow? Actually, a sugar plum is actually not a plum; It’s a piece of French candy known as a dragée, about the size, color and shape of a jellybean. They are widely associated with Christmas from Clement C. Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas."

And now Miss White had made some Rice-Krispie treats and Miss Forbis had covered them with Pillsbury vanilla-cream frosting. They placed them right in front of the boy – along with Gummy Bears, Skittles, and… could it be the fabled candy itself?

Visions of sugar plums had danced in his head long enough. The little boy would try one and see for himself. And so, he administered the coup de grâce to the treats, the Gummy Bears, the Skittles and to what was most likely the sugar plums.

So let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!