As a rule, I try to always be at *home on school nights and be a part of the evening routines. As frantic as the evenings are, I can’t imagine not getting to tuck my children in bed at night. It’s probably much more important to me than it is to them. Don’t tell the […]
The grandparents brought a box of pitch perfect pralines back from their trip to New Orleans. It took less than five minutes to recognize that Doug has a devotion to pralines that I reserve for dark chocolate. Doug: “I can’t decide if I want to eat a praline or a bowl of ice cream.” Me: […]
Me: “Evan, do you want some chicken?” Evan: “With ketchup.” Me: “What sound does a chicken make?” Evan: “Bawk-bawk-bawk.” Me: “Right! Would you like some green beans.” Evan: “Put them beside the chicken.” Me: “What sound do green beans make?” Evan: drops to the floor and curls up in a ball “Bu-bu-bu-bu.” Amy: rolling eyes […]
The first time Sarah ate a meal BEFORE her date, I shrugged it off as teenage weirdness. Since then, I’ve noticed it is routine behavior for her to eat food before or after, but never while actually out on a date. I imagine her telling the waiter, “I’m not really hungry. I’ll just have a […]
I don’t really have anything to say about watermelon. I just made a random Facebook comment that watermelons have been kinda blah so far this year and it got a dozen comments. I thought I’d test the watermelon interest level over here. Does anyone have deep thoughts about watermelon?
With extremely rare exceptions, the one meal each week that doesn’t come from our kitchen is Tuesday night’s Dominos pizza. The entire family loves it and there are usually enough leftovers for the next day’s lunch. The only thing that would make the experience perfect would be if the pick-up was a little less, umm, […]
I’m not sure if bacon cupcakes are brilliant marketing or extremely poor timing. for Michael
The most optimistic award goes to the dog in our neighborhood who barks at airplanes. I know the little critter is convinced that he’s keeping those big metal birds from stealing his kibble. The unexpected tv moment award goes to Heroes for finally explaining the stolen socks from the first episode. Until then, I thought […]
Dear Nestle aka Wonka, Just like every year, I help the Easter Bunny by picking a bag or two of whatever candy happens to be on sale each week before Easter. This year, I ended up with one bag of Wonka Runts Freckled Eggs. I didn’t realize the incredible taste sensation that is a Runts […]