Phipps Feeding Fiasco

The experience
Mina has wanted to go ice skating for quite some time.  I think she saw someone ice skating on one of the Nick Jr. cartoons she watches.  Today, we all had the day off so we thought we try it out.  I’ve never been ice skating either. Luckily, there were no big mishaps and we [...]

The experience
I forgot that Ogre and Mina just had Mediterranean food last night and suggested Ali Baba, a restaurant Ogre has been wanting to try for months now.  Apparently, Ogre forgot also as he happily agreed.  Our other child, Benji, was still at Lala’s house.  Last night, he fell asleep before Ogre picked him up [...]

The experience
I have a thing against eating sandwiches at any time other than at lunch.  So, if we are ever going to blog about a sandwich joint, we’d have to do it at lunch.  Today was that day.  Actually, we had a few other choices we considered including Freebirds, which I suspect Ogre was secretly [...]

The experience
Tonight Mina was going to be part of Las Posadas at church.  She was going to be playing the bells and singing Joy To The World.  She’d be going to church with Oma and Grandpoo for some time practicing. We panned to eat somewhere all together after.  Mina and Oma did an excellent job. [...]

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On one of my few mornings off with much to do the rest of the day, Ogre and I decided to go on a breakfast date…with Benji.  Aren’t I a lucky lady??!  Unfortunately, these last minute decisions are difficult with time running thin so we decided to head to a new Panera we saw when [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Today I was home around lunch time and was anticipating going to the dentist at 1 o’clock.  I asked Ogre if he wanted to have lunch with me and he accepted.  I’d be getting a bonus though as Benji would be coming with us!  I wanted to have lunch at Amado’s as I was [...]

The experience
We had family picture night at Mina’s school so we headed off in search of a new fiasco right afterwards. Mommy was suffering a migraine once more so I was looking for somewhere close.  Mina asked about Pizza then changed her mind to Chinese.  I was suggesting one nearby when Grace recalled we had [...]

The experience
It’s Halloween today and this is a BIG deal at Casa Phipps.  Knowing that we’d be making dinner at home created a do or die situation for breakfast or lunch.  Seeing how I would be rounding this morning, I was out for breakfast for sure, so we decided to try and do lunch with Benji.  Fortunately, I was able to round [...]