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Happy Hobbit Day!

 Good morning!


“‘What do you mean?’ he said. ‘Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?’” - Gandalf in The Hobbit


(Ok, you got me, it isn't morning, but I had to fit one of my favorite GandaIf quotes in here somewhere!)

 If you didn't already know, today is the birthday of some of my favorite literary characters, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins! I've been reading 'The Hobbit' to the kids, so they too could share in my joy of these beloved characters and their wonderful adventures created by Tolkein. Naturally, we had to celebrate Hobbit style with food aplenty! (This is the post where I totally nerd out...you have been forewarned!)


“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”   -The Hobbit


Gio was the only one who was able to squeeze in second breakfast, and unfortunately we missed elevensies due to a shopping expedition. By lunchtime, however, we were able to sit down to a fine meal fit for a Hobbit! 



After lunch we made some of Beorn's twice baked honey cakes to enjoy with teatime and dessert after dinner. They were quite hardy and we could see why Beorn would send these with the Dwarves and Bilbo for their long journey! 




"The making of these was one of his secrets; but honey was in them, as in most of his foods, and they were good to eat, though they made one thirsty…"  -The Hobbit






We enjoyed our tea (hot chocolate for the kids) while listening to mom read 'The Hobbit'. 


“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” -The Hobbit


For dinner we had a sort of deconstructed chicken pot pie with biscuits on the side (not homemade, I took the easy way out today!). We definitely felt like it was a meal fit for a Hobbit.



To end our Hobbit day, we finished reading 'The Hobbit'! 





“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”  -The Hobbit



We certainly enjoyed our impromptu celebration today! We hope that you all are well and that you had a wonderful day filled with good food and drink!



"May the hair on you toes never fall out!" -The Hobbit













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