Parent of the Year...

I told you I wasn't going to be winning any time soon, and in the food department, this weekend takes the cake, well there was no cake, but there was plenty of other junk... True/false was this weekend, and I got myself so overcommitted I didn't have time to enjoy even one movie. However, on Saturday night, our kids had other plans, so we had dinner out! I have several favorite Columbia restaurants, but Sophia's is right up there, and I had been craving the Moroccan shrimp for some time, so that's what we did. They also make the best Caesar salad in town, and Jay had the tuna with Godica chocolate sauce--yum...

I did send one kid to filmmakers' Bootcamp, though, and that was awesome. One of the teams did a great little short on the economy where they interviewed a couple homeless men hanging out at Wabash Station, very powerful for a bunch of middle school kids. We also fed the bootcamp participants lunch on Sunday, spaghetti and meatballs, a Columbia's Kitchen favorite. But in my haste to get them fed, the rest of my family ate out. Papa Murphy's is always good for those days when you don't know what else to do, especially when there is a game on anyway (Can that debacle still be called a game?)... I love the gourmet veggie with Canadian bacon, but since I mostly needed to feed Bo, we settled on pepperoni. I am not sure what they ate for dinner, random leftovers out of the fridge while I was cleaning up from bootcamp, then I stopped at Schnucks and made some grilled cheese sandwiches while we watched Extreme Makeover.

Then came the piece de resitance. Monday is a carzy day, the kids go from school to violin to orchestra, then Bo has basketball when we can get him there. So, I fed my kids milkshakes for dinner! Pierce had a McDonald's vanilla on the way to violin, then Bo had a Sonic chocolate with a couple pieces of popcorn chicken on the way to orchestra. I cut up the rest of the popcorn chicken to put on a salad once we got home. And so goes my effort to feed my kids sane and healthy meals! We hope you do better than that this week, and let us know if we can help! Lisa