Monday, January 19, 2009

Chow(der) Time

It snowed in Birmingham today... well, it flurried but whatever. I made a weather-appropriate dinner of potato-corn-chicken chowder with breadsticks and apple crisp for dessert. Madeline and Eli inhaled it!





After months of frustration over cooking meals and having my children refuse to eat them, I finally decided to take the hard nose approach: This is what is for dinner and if you don't eat it, you go to bed hungry. No more short-order cook! I am pleased to announce that after about a week of going to bed with hardly any food in their tummies, M&E have become little human garbage disposals. I can't tell you how rewarding it is to slave over a meal and have it appreciated!

M&E are getting quite good at feeding themselves, which is a good thing because they absolutely refuse to be fed by us anymore. So big! I also put the highchairs away in storage several weeks ago. Now my big kids either eat at the dining table with us or at their little table from Santa, which has replaced the highchairs in the kitchen.

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