Tonight I made the family’s favorite dinner: The annual “Don’t Be a Fool” dinner. It’s just a regular dinner, but with a menu. I make up words for all the items, then people have to choose their items from each category in the menu. So, for example, while I made a pasta dish for dinner, some people unknowingly chose “triangulo” and got leftover pizza or “cowabino” and got cold cereal. Franklin was delighted with his dinner: cold cereal, salad, and chips. Fun stuff. Each year, there is dog food on the menu somewhere, but this year, nobody chose it. I love it because it’s really not more work than a regular meal (except for printing up the silly menu), and I get major props for being a super fun mom. I’m hoping they remember this when they grow up and think it was like this all the time. Maybe they’ll forget every way in which I’m failing and only remember awesome April Fools dinners. One can wish, right?
Speaking of fools…
My new favorite shot of Matthew. Even though it’s kind of old, from Halloween. He was a nerd. This is his nerd face. I found it when I was looking through my folders before the open house. It had been overlooked, but I found it and made it black and white and fell in love. I found a bunch of gems, I’ll be posting them now and then.
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