Pour only as much as you want spilled and especially after mopping the floor. The upside is that when chasing kids around the island in the kitchen it causes less accidents in the home when you can stick that right turn due to the movie theater floor feeling.
A comment over on my post at The Blogfathers pointed out a new campaign by the Ad Council, and I wanted to help them out and embed the videos. Enjoy!
Priceless!
Get out and be a Daddy.
Sitting in the middle of a conference call with a prospective client talking about how I could do great things for her and her company and the ice cream man jingle is heard in the faint distance, then the roar of a small crowd gathering in the front yard, which then breaks off into a full riot in the foyer of our home. I tried to explain that I was not in the middle of a war zone or that we were being invaded by young people, but all I could say was “please hold we have the ice cream man here”. The call was wrapping up anyway (read as so much for that prospective client) so I headed out to the sidewalk, kids cheering me and my wallet along the way.
It seemed that there were more than just my 4 kids present, and suddenly I realized the $10 in my hand was not nearly going to cover the man selling crack on a stick. He looked at me as he handed me my meager change as if to ask me what I wanted, and realized he had cleaned me out and only had one thing on his menu I could have for the change he gave. He had his jackpot, so I guess he lost interest in me and was looking to the other kids running from the next street over. I’ve suddenly come to hate that jingle.
This year we have started something new at the Genuine household, we have pulled out our green thumbs and decided to become farmers. Not in the sense of acreage but about 100 square feet of dirt and a few big pots. We wanted to have some fresh vegetables and be able to show the kids what it was like to have their own growing experience. We asked each child what kind of vegetable that they wanted to grown and in spite of one of them wanting to grow popcorn, we came to an understanding on which vegetables that we would grow.
Genuine Girl decided that she would like to grow “summer sausage” but assured her it was called “summer squash”. Genuine Boy wanted to grow some pumpkins but didn’t really grasp the idea that it would probably be closer to October before we would be harvesting anything. Genuine Toddler decided that he would be the carrot king which stands to reason as he ate so many carrots as a baby in the baby food jars his nose turned orange. Genuine Baby had no vote and had no interest in growing anything but mud pies so we decided for him and planted some radishes.
We have various herbs and other items like garlic, onions, a watermelon plant and mommy’s green beans and cucumbers. Daddy just wanted the fresh herbs. We did get a chance to plant in order, parsley, sage rosemary and thyme.
