I remember when Hubba Bubba first came out. I remember how excited I was to find a gum that you could blow bubbles with and it wouldn’t stick to your face once it popped! It was all the rage and I was hooked. I loved blowing bubbles. The cracking and popping of gum could be heard resonating around the community. Okay, so maybe I’m dating myself…but I can still blow those bubbles.
The other day when we were at the store, my daughters picked out a pack of hubba bubba. So I bought my own pack of the gum…I was going to show them a thing or two. Poor Sidney was still struggling trying to figure out how to make a bubble in the first place. She kept trying to do it with regular gum. Well that just wouldn’t do.
So Bubble blowing 101. Driving in the car you could see all three of us blowing bubbles and bopping to tunes on the radio. First you got to make that gum nice and flat, press it against your teeth, push your tongue through and blow. I think the girls were impressed at how big mom could blow a bubble. It wasn’t long before even Sidney caught on.
I even taught them how to blow a bubble within a bubble…no easy feat, but something I recalled from earlier days. A few days later when Bill joined in, I was very pleased to see that even he could not compete with my bubble blowing abilities.
So I am happy with our little trip down memory lane. Now when the teachers ask the girls what they did this summer they can both answer that they learned how to blow awesome bubbles!!
I’m pretty Jazzed about that!!