Friday, February 26, 2010

What Should We Do Today? How About a Haircut and Clogged Arteries


This is what we did this morning. Both of them. At first, my only intention was to go and get Jacob's haircut and I had a coupon from Sport Clips. We headed over and after a 15 minutes inside this male salon we were clipped and looking dapper....at least Jacob was. What to do next.

Lately I have been watching on the Travel channel. He has had some tasty looking food--especially places like 5 Guys that serve french fries on their sandwiches. So today, when 5 Guys was right next door, and it was 11 a.m., I couldn't resist.

Normally I do resist...for various reasons: 1. I had Jacob with me. Up until today he has had probably 5 french fries in 2 years. We have eaten out and he eats with us, but I try to not give him too much or too many of the stuff we end up craving. But today I probably clogged his arteries. 2. It is generally pretty expensive. Jason is going to laugh at that comment, because he is cheaper than I am, but at $4.00 a burger, that is too much for me to pay for a 2 year old. Which leads me to 3. Most of the time it looks better than it tastes. Today was no exception. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad. I split the burger with Jacob (because of reason #2) and we had fries with fry sauce. He seemed to love it. $6.57 later I was thinking that a burger and fries off of the $1 menu at McDonalds would have done the job (I also think McDonalds has the best fries!). Jacob did have fun. When an order was taken up front the staff would yell according to whatever had been ordered. He thought that was funny and giggled, saying, "Funny" every time they did it. Watching him was most fun of all.

4 comments:

brooke said...

Nothing beats McD's fries. Luke is a slave to In N Out Burgers but I still love the fries at McD's. Eating out is one of my favorite things on this planet--especially with my kids--because I hate the mess at home--but it is sooo expensive especially when I have a 6 year old who eats more than my husband. Ryan is almost there--you should see what those two boys put away. I love the picture of Jacob eating. So cute.

Brooke said...

That's cute and fun to experience with a kiddo! Jacob sure is a cutie. I love that top pic.

Stephanie said...

Haha! This made me laugh. Thanks Linde, love it!

Karla said...

You're so clever with your posts! Also, YOU deserve a gold medal for not giving Jacob french fries... I started out with such good intentions to always feed Eva healthy foods but she's barely 2 and has definitely had more than 5 french fries!