Phipps Feeding Fiasco

The experience
Grace was working late this evening, so I went to pick up Mina from school.  It was already getting late and Grace said she’d be a the hospital for another hour.  So I was going to head out with the kids alone.  After having nixed a few ideas of Mina’s due to the rules, [...]

The experience
On this chilly evening, we needed to head to Target so Mina could buy herself a new pair of shoes to replace the new ones I bought her.  She ruined the other day and felt bad about it.  She has made enough money selling her pies on sweetmina.com that she had extra after buying [...]

The experience
Well, my initial plans to go to Nordstrom’s N Bistro were quickly thwarted when Mina decided she wanted, yet again, First Chinese BBQ.  Not obvious to her, we could not eat there.  I’d already planned to take the childsplate meal on my shoulders, so I told her we could eat at PF Chang’s instead.  [...]

The experience
Grace was working late again this morning, so she advised I take the kids to breakfast if we were to do anything today.  So, one I got the kids ready we headed out with no place in mind.  I’m not really a breakfast fan so my knowledge of breakfast restaurants is limited.  Mina wanted [...]

The experience
I tried to get us going early enough to run errands, have dinner, and get ornaments on the tree. Although I called Ogre at the time he requested of in 30 minutes, I did not get a reply until an hour later.  He had even asked me to think of a place for dinner, [...]

The experience
So today was Thanksgiving, and I did a bit of research yesterday and only found some high end non-chain restaurants open.  I did see Humperdink’s was open but didn’t settle on anything.  We thought we might be able to pull of breakfast, but Dr. Mom was working and the kids woke up late so [...]

The experience
If you follow our blog, then you might recall that Mondays are when Mina has her cooking class.  We try to have dinner on that side of town.  I also try to use our coupons.  One of our readers suggested Red, Hot, and Blue and I was excited to find a coupon in this [...]

The experience
It’s another crazy day for the Phipps family.  We had Mina’s birthday party this afternoon.  When it came time for dinner, Dusty wanted to join us and recommended Mexican food.  We listed some off that we could eat at, but decided that we would do Gloria’s even though it is really El Salvadorian food.  Mina had [...]

The experience:
“He didn’t take a nap today.”  This is never the statement you want to hear before taking your kids out to dinner to an untried restaurant.  We hopped in the car not knowing where we’d eat dinner and as we discussed our options, little Benji fell asleep.  We settled on Brooklyn’s, a restaurant we [...]