We had a bunch of kids over for the day last week (plus the regular bunch of kids who live here permanently.) We had pancakes for lunch, a LOT of pancakes, plus a dozen eggs scrambled with cheese, ham and sausage. Those kids inhaled it all so fast, I had to count my fingers when they were done to make sure nobody ate one by accident. Nine kids can eat a lot of food in one sitting.
Elena is enjoying one of the kids' new creations, the Pancake Burger. It is, as you can see, a flat sausage patty sandwiched between two pancakes. This was a logical variation to the Pancake Dog, a longtime kid favorite made with a sausage link wrapped in a pancake.
It ain't slave labor if the kid
likes to do it. This is Elena again, shoveling snow for us. She likes to be outside in the snow. Renee is out there too, off to the side, 'helping' by making snow angels. My children are prolific snow angel makers- our yard often looks like the aftermath of some large scale angel massacre.
Here we have Renee holding the register receipt from last night's grocery shopping trip. You know you eat a lot when your receipt is taller than some of your children. At that, we only stopped shopping because we ran out of room in the cart; I'll still have to go back and finish my list. When we were checking out, there was some doubt among the grocery store staff as to whether they would be able to fit all the bagged groceries back into the cart; they almost went to get a second one, but I just had my child labor division carry the overflow bags out to the van for me. And, of course, I had coupons! You really, really don't want to be in line behind us at the store! I wonder if they'd start letting me just drive my van right through the store, at least then I could get a week's worth of groceries in one trip.
We had a bunch of kids over for the day last week (plus the regular bunch of kids who live here permanently.) We had pancakes for lunch, a LOT of pancakes, plus a dozen eggs scrambled with cheese, ham and sausage. Those kids inhaled it all so fast, I had to count my fingers when they were done to make sure nobody ate one by accident. Nine kids can eat a lot of food in one sitting.
Elena is enjoying one of the kids' new creations, the Pancake Burger. It is, as you can see, a flat sausage patty sandwiched between two pancakes. This was a logical variation to the Pancake Dog, a longtime kid favorite made with a sausage link wrapped in a pancake.
It ain't slave labor if the kid likes to do it. This is Elena again, shoveling snow for us. She likes to be outside in the snow. Renee is out there too, off to the side, 'helping' by making snow angels. My children are prolific snow angel makers- our yard often looks like the aftermath of some large scale angel massacre.
Here we have Renee holding the register receipt from last night's grocery shopping trip. You know you eat a lot when your receipt is taller than some of your children. At that, we only stopped shopping because we ran out of room in the cart; I'll still have to go back and finish my list. When we were checking out, there was some doubt among the grocery store staff as to whether they would be able to fit all the bagged groceries back into the cart; they almost went to get a second one, but I just had my child labor division carry the overflow bags out to the van for me. And, of course, I had coupons! You really, really don't want to be in line behind us at the store! I wonder if they'd start letting me just drive my van right through the store, at least then I could get a week's worth of groceries in one trip.
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