Phipps Feeding Fiasco

The experience
As I was lying in bed nauseated, better than previous, but still nauseated, I decided it would be fun for us to eat at Truluck’s.  After all, it is St. Patrick’s Day!  When I told Ogre my great suggestion, his first comment was, “Did you make reservations?”  Hmm, why would I need reservations?  I [...]

The experience
This morning, Mina took some standardized test as a prerequisite for a school we’re considering putting her in for the next school year, for her effort and for being good at school last week, the plan was to take her to Chuck E. Cheese tonight.  I think I once vowed on here that we [...]

The experience
The Benji tales just don’t stop.  This morning we ended up in the Emergency Room because he was having such severe abdominal pain, and, I, being a pediatrician had to make sure he didn’t have a telescoping intestinal problem.  Turns out he didn’t, but he was still really out of it the whole day.  [...]

The experience
Mina decided that she wanted to eat “American” food tonight.  Ogre translated this into “Burgers.”  He looked on line to see what the buzz was with Burgers these days.  We chose a restaurant that received Reader’s Pick kudos in, I think, the Observer and happened to have a location nearby.  Ogre invited one of [...]

The experience
I had a looooonnnnnng day today and got home after five.  I joined Benji who was already eating a snack and Ogre didn’t realize I was home.  I didn’t know he had to be somewhere for a meeting this evening and Mina was with Grandpoo and Oma.  Our family is so disorganized!  He called [...]

The experience
You’ll have to let me apologize for another late entry for last night’s dinner. Our very, very good friends were visiting from out of town tonight and we had dinner with them (yes, we subjected them to our childsplate nonsense) and after a lengthy dinner we caught up a little and then had to get four [...]

The experience
We were at Grace’s parents visiting with family when we decided we would make another attempt at eating fondue which I suggested the other day.  It was already 6:00 PM so we got moving lest we get home at midnight.  We opted to go the The Melting Pot in Addison.  We’d been here once before [...]

The experience
As is typical for the Phipps family, as I drove home from work, I called Ogre to see what the plans were for dinner.  Of course, there were none.  In fact, he was across town in Irving.  We eventually decided that I would pick up the children and meet in Addison for dinner.  There’s [...]

The experience
Right before dinner, I received a page that I’d be expecting an admission at the hospital, so we’d have to take separate cars and plan for somewhere en route to down town.  I gave Ogre a couple of choices and we decided that the kids would probably like BBQ the best, so we decided [...]

The experience
It’s a slippery slope, my friends.  The suggestion by Ogre’s best friend, Dusty, was to go to Pei Wei…his treat, he received a $50 gift card for Christmas.  Ogre’s argument, Mina and I went to PF Chang’s.  Now, I am not going to deny my sweet little girl a restaurant because it’s chain-y.  I [...]