Sparklers

When I was young (feels like a million years ago) my Mom would buy sparklers for us for... I don't know it must have been 4th of July, or was it New Years? Any how I was mesmerized by them. I loved how they gave off the most beautiful glow, and sparks (of course), and didn't they crackle? But then one year they stopped selling them because firworks became illegal in the area, or something like that? You could go outside the county or south an hour to Mexico and sometimes find them on a corner being sold by a guy that would knock on your window offering fireworks. It made them even more intriguing, right? I am just saying!
Anyhow when I saw these chocolate dipped pretzels, childhood memories of dark warm nights dancing around bare foot with my sisters and a sparkler in hand, came flooding back to me. Don't they look like sparklers? So we had to make them. No choice. For the love of being a kid I guess.
I just melted the chocolate chips in a bowl in the micro, for 30 seconds at a time, on 50% power, stir and repeat until the chocolate is smooth, then let the kids dip the pretzel rods in chocolate, and sprinkle a little bit of red white and blue love'n on top. So easy! A little messy, but the kids were more than happy to clean it all up for me!