Posts Tagged Ben

Interview with a 10 year old. Ben.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 | Permalink

What is something I always say to you? I love you

What makes you happy?  Spending time with mom and dad

What makes you sad? Not spending time with your family

How do I make you laugh? Funny stuff

What do you think I was like as a child? Bad.  Stealing candy and eating in the bathroom.  (note:  I have never stolen or shoplifted anything ever.)

How old are you? 10 years old

How old am I? 40

How tall are you? In the middle of four feet and five feet.

What is your favorite thing to do? I already answered this.  Spend time with you guys.

What do I do when you’re not around? Hide the bathroom.

What are you really good at? Swimming.

What are you not really good at? Being dumb.

What does the president do? He tells people what to do.

What is your favorite food? I do not know.  Wait!  I’ll just put pizza because I’m getting tired of ground beef.

What do you and I do together? Go to the store.

How are we the same? We have long toes.  We have brown eyes.

How are you and I different? You’re a girl.

How do you know that I love you? I can just tell.

What is one thing you wish you could change? Get rid of evil. No.  Get rid of sin.

What do you wish you could go and do with me? Go to LEGO Land

What is your job in our family? Sleeping.  Wait, no.  Making breakfast and lunch.

What is your favorite room in the house? My room.

What is your favorite animal? Panda Bear

What has been your worst experience? In the old house, falling on my face on the back porch when the earth hit me.

What is your favorite color? Purple.  Wait!  Yeah, purple.

What is your favorite number? Ten

What is your favorite letter? A.  Wait, no.  B.  NOOOOOOO.  AHHHHH…….

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Interview with a seven year old. Ben.

Saturday, November 24th, 2012 | Permalink

What is something I always say to you? You love me.

What makes you happy? Jumping on a trampoline.

What makes you sad? Getting in trouble

How do I make you laugh? When you tell me jokes or tickle me.

What do you think I was like as a child? Good.

How old are you? Seven.

How old am I? 37

How tall are you? About 3 feet.

What is your favorite thing to do? Play with my friends.

What do I do when you’re not around? By us presents and stuff. And wrap them.

What are you really good at? Rugby.

What are you not really good at? Football because I don’t really know how to play it.

What does the president do? He tells everybody what to do.

What is your favorite food? Pizza.

What do you and I do together? Help each other. Talk.

How are we the same? We’re not. Well, we’re in the same family.

How are you and I different? You look different.

How do you know that I love you? Because you hug me.

What is one thing you wish you could change? Dad being back from sea.

What do you wish you could go and do with me? Go to the store.

What is your job in our family? Clean my room.

What is your favorite room in the house? Your room because you have a big fluffy bear and a giant bed and two sinks that are yours.

What is your favorite animal? Elephant.

What has been your worst experience? When I almost got my head cracked wide open. In the old house, remember Chris? My chain came off my bike and got stuck to his pedal and I fell off and my head hit this part in the road really hard and then another kid rode over my head with his bike. The first wheel, not the second.

What is your favorite color? Blue

What is your favorite number? Ten

What is your favorite letter? Uh… B. No. Uh… E.  NO!  N!

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cheese crust mac-mac

Thursday, November 15th, 2012 | Permalink

Deliciousness like you’ve never known.  We started making this macaroni and cheese for Thanksgiving 20 or so years ago and it has been a Thanksgiving staple since.

This cheese crust macaroni and cheese is a family favorite and it goes a long way.  It can be a side dish or a main dish or a breakfast or a midnight snack…

So I will eat it in a box
and I will eat it with a fox
and I will eat it in a house
and I will eat it with a mouse
and I will eat it here and there
Say! I will eat it ANYWHERE!

I have many young children.

What you need:

Rectangle baking dish
2 lbs macaroni noodles
1/4 cup butter
3 eggs
1 tsp salt
1 small can evaporated milk (not sweetened condensed milk. We made a mistake once.)
2 lbs chedder cheese.  Plus more maybe.  Go ahead and plan on 3 lbs.  Seriously.

Cook your noodles as instructed on the box.  Drain them and add your butter and about atleast a pound of cheese, shredded or diced.  Stir it like you mean it, allowing the cheese to get good and melty and the noodles to cool for a bit. Next you’ll want to add your eggs and evaporated milk.  Throw some salt in there too.

Here is where I should really post a picture because it’s hard to explain this next part without showing you.  I’ll try to remember to snap a photo the next time I make this.
What you’ll want to do is grease your baking pan with butter.  Grease it good, then you’ll take sliced cheese and stick it all over the inside of a greased dish, up on the sides too.  Make sure the entire dish is layered with cheese.  Then pour your macaroni mix into the dish and layer the top with more slices of chedder cheese.

Bake this concoction at 375 for 1 hour and serve it up with some salt and a glass of coke.  Or whatever drink you like.  If you don’t want your cheese to be too crusty on top you can cover it loosely with foil until the last 10 minutes of baking time.

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Best Pancakes

Thursday, November 15th, 2012 | Permalink

Just do yourself a favor and pick up a box of Krusteaz pancake mix.  Read the directions on the box and do what it says.  Also makes good waffles.

Yum.

Syrup should be the butter kind.  I’m serious.

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Misunderstood T. rex

is a blog we are putting together as our family of ten grows. The blog is called Misunderstood T. rex because, like the infamous dinosaur, our large family is often misunderstood, profiled, and categorized simply because of our collective number of teeth.
This is a blog to help me remember our favorite recipes, and to help our future sons and daughters-in-law find out more about their spouses, what meals they like, and other things we'll throw into the mix.
There will also likely be drawings of T. rex's here and there because I draw T. rex's, being that we're practially related and all. Also, I'm not exactly sure what the plural for Tyrannosaurus Rex should be.
This introduction is much longer than I had planned.