Just as LOST as ever...

Well, as usual,

the Season Finale of my weekly "guilty indulgence" has left me

with more questions than answers...

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Sigh... They brilliantly know how to keep me coming back for more!

It will be a LONG Summer of waiting...

Indeed... it has come to this...

My children are eating Hot Dogs for Dinner...

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Yes... you heard that right... HOT DOGS!

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Kade even loaded up "duel-ies".

2... yes, TWO... and he'd have had 3 if I'd let him!

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To understand the true magnitude of this moment
you must first understand my true and utter disdain for Hot Dogs...
Weiners, Franks, Hot "Dogs"...
people should not consume things with these names!
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I have not eaten one since the 8th grade
when Dwayne Aragon told me what was in them
after having worked at a slaughter house over the summer.
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Admittedly, I did have a momentary lapse of insanity
(I was pregnant with Kade, what can I say?)
when I thought I absolutely had to have one
because the aroma from that little kiosk was seducing me...
But, alas, I did not actually EAT it...
I gagged it out before I actually swallowed the first bite!
(Poor Matt ate the rest,
shaking his head the entire time
at the fickle appetite of pregnancy...)
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Perhaps only my parents will remember my history with Hot Dogs...
How I swore I would never feed them to my own children...
How I would never corrupt their perfect, pure little bodies
with such a vile, disgusting excuse for food,
just for the sake of ease, convenience and filling up their tummies.
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Oh, no... not MY children! NEVER!
And yet somehow... somehow, we have arrived!
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In my defense, Matt bought them... (I guess they were on "Sale"!)

and the boys do LOVE them... (and probably love teasing me about them just as much!)

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...and hey, I ate TOAST for Dinner!

New... Tattoo?

So... I've heard of signing someone's CAST, but signing their ARM?

Kade came home from school today sporting this "awesome" Autograph-Arm...

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Apparently it is the new COOL thing in 2nd Grade...

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Instead of signing your friend's Yearbook, you just sign THEM!

Maybe to cover the cost of... Inflation?

So Kade burst through the door from school yesterday so excited to tell me

all about how he lost a tooth while wrestling at Recess. (Go figure...)

The whole Class was crawling around on the grass trying to help him find it

(I can only imagine...), and somehow they did!

He brought it home in this cool necklace shaped like a tooth.

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He put it under his pillow last night (as usual)

and went to bed...

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and lo and behold...

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we were all surprised when he found $8 in it's place this morning!

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Matt and I looked at each other... disgusted!

Neither of us got more than a quarter, at most!

His other teeth have been worth a few dollars each,

so why the sudden increase?

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Inflation?

The rising cost of fuel?

It is an awfully cute smile... but $8?
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Maybe the Tooth Fairy was confused... or made the rounds twice... hmmm...
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Well, whatever the story... Kade felt like one LUCKY kid!

He even got to keep the necklace!