A New "Family" Recipe

With football season in full gear, I rarely have time to cook. Each night we have some type of activity that forces us to eat on the road.

MooMoo has been asking if he can cook our family dinner. He's only 8yrs old so I was quite curious to see what he wanted to cook. Monday morning before school he said, "Mom...can you go to the grocery store? I left a list on the counter of what I need to cook us dinner." Upon asking him what he was going to cook for us, he told me it was a surprise, but he had the recipe.

LOL. "Sure."

After I walked him to school, I checked the grocery list. It read: Hotdog bread, bananas. OK.....I'm lost. BUT...I went to the store that day and got him his desired items. When he got home I told him that I got the stuff on his list and he could make dinner Friday, as that would be the next night that we could eat at home!

Today, which is Friday, upon picking him up from school I reminded MooMoo that he's making us dinner. He asked me what time he should start. I told him about 6pm. At 6pm, I went up stairs, and MooMoo went into the kitchen to make our dinner. It was delicious!!! The picture is posted above. It was good, but I would say its more of an after-school snack. We all ate the banana, in the hotdog bun, smeared with PB&J! And told him how much we LOVED it!!!

Tourists in Hollywood

A couple weeks ago our summmer vacation was coming to an end. I told the kids one Sunday afternoon, "Tonight we are going to go to Hollywood....dressed as tourists". I can't believe how excited they were! I told them to be ready at about 7:30.

At 7pm I yelled down the stairs that we were leaving in a half hour, and to be ready. I could hear them giggling at each other as they were getting ready.

Coy walked into the room to introduce me to my tourists.

Dane had a pair of hawaiian swim shorts on with a plaid shirt and a fishing hat. He had black socks on and white tennis shoes.

Girlfriend had on fluorescent shorts with a "california" t-shirt on and a pair of swim googles. She decided that to be really obnoxious, she would just yell out at times, "MOM....WHEN ARE WE GOIN SWIMMIN AT THE POOL".

Coy had on short shorts and a tank top that had sunglasses all over, he also wore a headband. Don't forget the camera he wore around his neck.

MooMoo looked at me, shaking his head. He said, "Mom....I'm not dwessing like a nerd". LOL. I told him it would be funny. He pointed out that I was not dressed like a nerd, so I didn't push it with him.

When we got to Hollywoood the kids were so excited. They had their cover stories of where they were from and they all were practicing talking with accents. First we went to Mel's Diner. I wore my sunglasses just so I could discreetly look at people's reactions while watching my kids. We walked in to eat, and people were nudging their friends to point out my kids. As I said quietly, "look at the people talking about you." The boys were even more excited and became more blatant at talking with their accents and calling me "ma".

When we were done at Mel's, we walked down Hollywood Blvd. We came upon Michael Jackson's star. Coy cried out, "WHAT???? Michael Jackson died???" LOL He started crying loudly, it was so darn funny!! At one point I took my girlfriend in to use a restroom. When I came out the bigger boys were holding out a cup asking people to contribute to sending them back home to Minnesota. Yes...people were throwing in money.

This whole summer I have kept thinking to myself that since Dane is getting ready to graduate, these are the last vacation memories we were making together. He will be off working or at college next summer. This is something I've always said we should do....and was so fun doing!!!! Besides...they keep telling everyone how we dressed as tourists and went into Hollywood.

PS. I told the kids the other day that we need to dress as tourists and go into Beverly Hills, down Rodeo Drive. Can't you imagine them walking into a jewelry store asking with their accents, "Wow! Are those REAL diamonds?"