Phipps Feeding Fiasco

The experience
Today we headed out for lunch and I gave Ogre three options, he headed to Jason’s Deli, which was actually the last restaurant of choice, but would still do.  We walked in and, once again, were lucky to beat the rush and ordered straight away.  Benji was happy to stand with us as we [...]

The experience
Last night’s storm made for a later morning for me this morning and, thus, later getting home from rounding.  I suggested we get a quick bite for lunch somewhere and Ogre did not want to waste a meal out so he turned it into our childsplate adventure for the day.  We decided on La [...]

The experience
Today we were against wrought with the decision of what to eat for dinner tonight.  Nothing interesting came to mind and Ogre heard a Macaroni Grill commercial on the radio TWICE in arow and he must’ve taken it as a sign that we should here tonight.  I wondered if we had already eaten here [...]

The experience
Well, Mina was accepted to the private school we applied for so we thought we’d reward her endurance of the testing and interviewing (sheesh!) with a special day.  We’d be going to a movie and then eating at the restaurant of her choice.  Of course she’s not going to choose a restaurant we haven’t [...]

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
As Mina and I were headed home to pick up Ogre for dinner, I got paged by the hospital.  Looked like I’d be doing another admission tonight.  Unfortunately, that meant a quicker, closer dinner than what I had planned.  I gave Ogre some choices and we headed in that direction.  As we neared one [...]

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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
On my way home today, I noticed the sign by Pappasito’s that said Fajita’s for Two for 16.95.  Wednesday.  After 5pm.  Hey! That’s tonight!!  I LOVE the beef fajitas at Pappasito’s and since I had not very good fajitas last night, I was now CRAVING beef fajitas.  I was sure Ogre would have no problems [...]

The experience
I had a headache and Grace was just getting home for lunch so we opted to go somewhere quick and easy.  We discussed a few option while we drove towards the highway and settled on Freebird’s.  We’d been going here since Grace went to medical school at Texas A&M; the birth place of Freebird’s. [...]