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BOY!

And I'm still hoping for 10-11-12.  Just for the record.

May 2012 Menu

May 2012

So, I meant to publish this at the beginning of the month.  We're not quite at the beginning, but we're not the the middle yet!  I decided to plan our menu this month around the cookbook Our Best Bites.  It looked to have a lot of real people food in it and things that my family would eat.  So far, we're doing good.  I've had to make a few changes (our oven stopped working - but not the stove-top).  And Sunday's somehow didn't get planned, but we haven't starved yet!  I put links in to the recipes that are on the website and the others, if they're good, I'll try to post on the recipe blog.

Really? (a slight rant)

Today we took a picnic to a nearby park with some friends.  We let the kiddos play for a bit, then we sat down to eat lunch.  Not long afterwards, 2 school buses pull up and students (1st or 2nd grade) start pouring out.  The teachers and parent volunteers lug big coolers full of sack lunches, the students eat their lunches (because the teachers say they have to before they can play) and then the students go at the playground with excitement.  Now, I have no problem with any of this, except:

WHY WOULD THE TEACHERS PLAN A FIELD TRIP TO A LOCAL PARK WHEN THERE ARE WAY BETTER THINGS TO DO ON A FIELD TRIP?  DON'T THEY HAVE A PLAYGROUND AT THEIR SCHOOL?  REALLY?  A FIELD TRIP TO A PARK?  REALLY?

I know this picture has NOTHING to do with the rant topic above.  But we are all of us enjoying strawberry season.  YUM!  A box of strawberries is only good for one meal around here.  And nobody gets as many as they want.