Life With Boys

The mis-adventures of two crazy boys and their bleary eyed parents.


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  • Life with boys … spaghetti loaf

    Life with boys … boy requested spaghetti loaf before he goes back to school … freezer had a dough malfunction … it may have gotten about about three times the normal size … they will still eat it all I predict … just in case you want your carbs wrapped in more carbs .. Recipe: Continue reading

  • Life with boys … 5th snow day edition …

    Life with boys … 5th snow day edition … seems there is a conspiracy to make every Thursday a snow day this month … boy is loudly announcing that “we have no food in this house” … to which I respond by listing ingredients “we have a can of hominy, pancake mix, eggs, leftover mashed Continue reading

  • Life with boys …

    Life with boys … Me: “Do you normally come in and wash the spatula mid-bbq?”… Boy: “Usually, especially if it has been touching raw meat” Me: “ You know I grew up in a house where food was left out overnight” … Boy: “Which is why you are a walking Petri dish” … Me: “Petri Continue reading

  • Life with boys … I sent the boy to the grocery store today WITH A LIST … as I unpacked the bags I started to notice an assortment of random additional items – chocolate bars, jello cubes, marshmallows, English muffins, watermelon Mountain Dew … “Hey, where is the flour?” …. “That was not on the Continue reading

  • Life with boys …

    Life with boys … well played Continue reading

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  • Life with boys … deep thoughts overheard … “The thing about secrets is … that potatoes are not secret” Continue reading

  • Life with boys … Tyler wanted to make waffles … I did not have any mix, I was not going to the store … so I handed him the cookbook … you would have thought I gave him a dead cat … Continue reading

  • Tyler must be Matt’s kid – for his birthday dinner tomorrow (with the world at his disposal) he wants me to make waffles and open a can of corned beef hash (ok he gets the hash from Grandpa Beck) Continue reading

About Me

I started this site so my mom could get news about her grandkids without me having to walk her through the process of trying to open and email attachment several times a week.  Since then she has passed away and I’ve fallen off the blog wagon, but I’m inspired to pick it up again now.

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