National Pepper Potts Day

Each Wednesday for Camille's small group night, I like to help out and make a game, and we thought it would be fun to celebrate whatever random holiday pops up on that Wednesday, and use that to make a theme for a game out of.  So what is today?

 

It's National Pepper Pot Day.  I have no idea what that is.  And sure, I could look at the picture there, or look up the ingredients.  But that doesn't make for an interesting game for girls' small group.  So here's a new twist on the holiday:

The whole idea is that I didn't know what a pepper pot is, so instead I made it National Pepper Potts Day.  The girls played a game where there were three suits of her "Rescue" armor, each one with the helmet on.  The girls had to figure out which of the three suits actually had Pepper Potts inside it.

Maddie's online small group keeps going on, and it's nice to see.  While she was doing that, I've got Sunday to consider, a new message.  I had one idea in place when Mom thought it might be better to go with the Neverland theme one last time, as we're still with that set.  And that's not a bad idea.  The whole tie-in with the New Year and Tick-Tock the crocodile might be interesting.

We did some oven shopping, but what Mom wants is either not available or not created yet.  Either way, after a little over an hour of looking online, we came extremely close, only to have it shot down because the color wasn't perfect.  So back to the drawing board on that.  Our current oven has officially bit the dust now, which means a bit of creative cooking in the near future, and possibly a new toaster oven until Mom finds her utopian stove.  Maddie's got to have her pizza and nuggets and tater tots, so a toaster oven it is.

Maddie and I played a game of "Worst Possible Scenarios," which is a fun trivia game that challenges each player to figure out the best way to survive a train crash, avoid black bears, keep from staying lost at sea, find drinkable water in the jungle... and so on.  It was a close match actually, the two of us racing on to the finish line, barely surviving.  But we did, and we learned a few things along the way.

Tonight's Spider-thon continued with Doctor Octopus and the incredible movie "Spider-man 2," which is one of my favorite superhero movies of all time.  The subway sequence alone is one of the best action scenes ever, but the overall story behind this movie is just a masterpiece.  Seriously, this might be my favorite superhero movie ever still, even after all the MCU material that's been released, and all those movies are really good too.  It's just that "Spider-man 2" is still my favorite.

Another bit of viewing today:  Boba Fett!  Yes, the first chapter in the "Book of Boba Fett" was released today, and we actually watched it first thing this morning!  True story.  We obviously won't be able to do that as school started out, but we were so anxious to watch the first episode today that we did it this morning.  And it was great, of course, a long-awaited moment where we see how Boba Fett actually escapes from the Sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon, and we also see a lot of interaction with some of my favorite characters, the Tusken Raiders.  It was a win-win.  We loved this episode, and will probably watch it again very soon because we're such geeks!  Also, Fennec Shand.  So glad to see her in this episode, and looking forward to seeing her in action as we move forward.  It was a good start to the series!

We closed out the night by saying our prayers, and reading from our "Kingdom Keepers" book.  Mom and Nana got some grocery shopping done, getting ready for the big fast in January, but other than that, it wasn't a terribly productive day.  But that's okay - it's winter break.  And National Pepper Potts Day.