Parenting in a nutshell

Wednesday...

On the menu: Pasta with bolognese sauce

Kiddo reaction: This is SO good. Why don't we have this more often?!

Thursday...

On the menu: Tuscan sausage and kale soup

Kiddo reaction: This is the best soup I've ever tasted. Can we please eat this every day forever?

Friday...

E/e: Can we PLEASE have lunch now?! We're STARVING!!!

Mom: Sure. You guys can choose from the pasta from the other night or the sausage soup.

e: Um. I'll have sausage.

Mom: The soup?

e: No. Just sausage.

M: I don't have just plain sausage. It's in the soup.

e: Yogurt please.

M: E, which one would you like?

E: I don't have much of an appetite.