Phipps Feeding Fiasco

The experience I am going to preface this post by saying there was quite a bit of disagreement amongst the Phippsters for star rating and title of the post.  I’ll get to that later.  Oma was out of town this week, so we invited Grandpoo (these are Mina and Benji’s grandparents) to dinner with us. [...]

The experience It’s another beautiful September day in Texas.  Ogre wants to eat on a patio.  We get going pretty early tonight.  Apparently, Ogre hasn’t eaten all day, he told me he didn’t want screw up the childsplate timing for dinner.  I told him I ate lunch at 3 o’clock.  He looks a little hurt.  Oh [...]

The experience Once again, our original plans for dining were thwarted.  We wanted to go to Jorg’s in historic downtown Plano, but it is closed on Sunday…Monday…AND Tuesday.  We had a back up plan, though, as we recalled there were a couple days a week that they were closed.  We’d head to Kelly’s Eastside right [...]

The experience So after 36 days straight without going to some of Mina’s favorite places due to our desire to steer clear of the more chain-type restaurants.  I finally decided I would give into her desire to go eat at California Pizza Kitchen in The Shops of Willow Bend in Plano.  She loves this location [...]

The Experience We decide early on (we’re starting to get the hang of this) to hit one of our favorite Korean restaurants, Jin Mi. We had the plan all worked out, I was going to pick up Mina from school, run an errand, and call Ogre on my way home so that he was ready [...]

The experience We decided to eat in Allen on our way to risk Cryptosporidium at the splashpark in Allen (not that there are confirmed cases from there, it’s just rampant right now in DFW). Ogre had heard of a little French restaurant in Allen so we head to Viola. It was quaint and not too [...]

The Experience Another solo night and we get off to a late start.  Mina asks for Chili’s, yet again.  Dusty also joins in for a second round.  It’s only on the ride over that Dusty finally realizes exactly what we are doing with our eating out challenge.  He suggested I break the rules since Grace [...]

The experience Benjamin did not wake up until 11 am this morning!  So much for a true breakfast.  Mina’s favorite “going out” meal is breakfast.  Brunch is the non-early-riser’s breakfast or for the family that can’t decide on going out for lunch or breakfast, in my unwanted opinion.  On our way to “brunch,” Ogre mentioned [...]

The Experience Day two and I was already going solo to dinner with the kids. The wife was working overnight so it fell to me to keep the “dream” alive. So my first thoughts were, “Since we won’t be going back for a year, where can I go that won’t irritate the wife?” That made [...]