Memories : Roasting Marshmallows

When my nieces were small, they used to come to Aunt Lisa daycare. We would spend the entire day outside in the backyard and do crafts and roast marshmallows and cook hotdogs over my fire pit. Our summer routine would consist of them coming over and running upstairs to wake me up.

Then I'd get dressed and have a cup of coffee while they had breakfast and by 10am we were in the backyard, and they were playing with the backyard toys.

I always tried to have marshmallows and hot dogs on hand because they loved cooking them and even though they rarely ate the marshmallows they loved to roast them. They made sure to burn them just the way I liked them.

I had a picnic basket that I kept everything in. The Sunday paper went in there to use as fire kindling and the roasting tongs would go in there as well as a box of matches. The girls had the job of collecting the firewood in the yard, luckily there was some broken logs that I was able to use in the fire, so they were just collecting kindling. We used dry leaves and pinecones as kindling as well.

One side of the outdoor table would be set up with a few crafts and the other had the picnic basket and my coffee. lol

Around noon the hotdogs come out and then the marshmallows. By the time my sister comes for them both girls will have each had a tube of Pringles, 2 hotdogs and maybe 3 marshmallows and a bottle of juice. 

Our roasting methods are different... 

I just put the marshmallow on the stick and put it over the fire, turning it periodically. 
Morgs does the same thing only she pushes it down do the tong went all the way through and would just spin it in circles.
Mads pushed her on slowly and made sure it was sturdy enough and then she would put it over the fire and pull it out and then put it back in. This happened at least 3 or 4 times.