{"id":1980,"date":"2009-08-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/of-chocolate-and-aliens\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:14:23","slug":"of-chocolate-and-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/of-chocolate-and-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Of chocolate and aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  My family know by now that leaving chocolate anywhere in the house is a big mistake, because I Am&nbsp;A Chocoholic. I can go whole days without it, but then I crave it so badly that nothing is safe &#8211; not Easter Eggs, Father&#39;s Day truffles, nothing. So Saturday found me pilfering one of the bars of Swiss chocolate that had been carefully stored in the fridge since we returned from holiday a fortnight ago. (To be honest, I think it was pretty incredible I&#39;d resisted it that long).   <\/p>\n<p>  Needless to say the owner&nbsp;was less than&nbsp;happy, and I was definitely in the doghouse for the rest of the day. &#39;Learn some self-control,&#39; they snapped. Out of the mouths of babes&#8230;   <\/p>\n<p>              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/8\/AliensintheAttic2_030809.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"162\" \/>&nbsp;\n<td width=\"5%\">\n<p>     Fortunately yesterday I&nbsp;was able to make amends of sorts with a trip to the preview of new kids&#39; movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aliensintheatticmovie.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Aliens in the Attic<\/a>, which opens on the 12th. It&#39;s a great old fashioned family&nbsp;film about a group of kids who save the planet from an alien invasion (the aliens are incredibly cute, not the Alien\/Predator kind). A&nbsp;bucket of popcorn later we&#39;d all laughed so much that all&nbsp;memories of the chocolate theft were long gone.      <\/p>\n<p> \n<p>  &#39;That was brilliant,&#39; declared nine-year-old Elliot afterwards. &#39;10 out of 10.&#39; And you can&#39;t say fairer than that.   <\/p>\n<p> written by Liz Jarvis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My family know by now that leaving chocolate anywhere in the house is a big mistake, because I Am&nbsp;A Chocoholic. I can go whole days without it, but then I crave it so badly that nothing is safe &#8211; not Easter Eggs, Father&#39;s Day truffles, nothing. 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