Ice Cream Dinner

Growing up, at my old church we used to have an 'ice cream dinner' each summer. The main event of course would be ice-cream....but the homemade kind, not store bought. Everyone would make their own ice cream--all different kinds of flavors and the makers would be lined up on tables in rows and you could just go down the row, like in a buffet and fill your bowl (or bowls, if you so needed) with as much ice cream as you could handle. Of course they served hot dogs at this event too, and i do love a good hot dog, but even hot dogs couldn't hold a candle to the level of awesomeness of the ice cream. Oh this was my most favorite thing. Homemade ice cream is still one of my all-time favorite foods--and it's a food that i RARELY get to have.

sidenote: i could use an ice cream maker if anyone wants to donate one to me--not these new fakey kinds, but the old--mix the cream, fill the contraption up with ice and let it loudly churn for hours kind of ice cream maker. I love kitchen aid and all, but they have nothing on the old ice cream makers.

Anyway, although not the same at all (we do the best we can!) Saturday night I convinced Mike that we should have ice cream for dinner. Since it was like 7:00 and we had no plans for dinner and we had a Cold Stone gift card burning a whole in our pocket, it really didn't take much convincing. So we broke our cardinal rule of "never mess up the babies bedtime" and packed everyone up to drive to the nearest Cold Stone for dinner. Mike had the 'Founders Favorite', full of chocolate and peanut butter, and I had a cheesecake concoction with strawberries and cherries. While we ate our oh-so yummy dinner, the babies just sat in their strollers staring at us. We may have even teased them a little just for kicks and giggles (and pictures of course). Kinda mean huh?

Don't worry i told them all about how yummy ice cream is and how one day we would all come back as a family and they could have their own ice cream too--but i would probably make them eat they're veggies first, or at the very least a hot dog! I don't think giving children ice cream for dinner really qualifies as "good parenting" but then it probably doesn't qualify as a good personal choice either, but oh well. Gotta live a little, yeah?

seems like they could care less at this point

teasing Holden...Nora is reaching for it...i better watch out, she's gonna love ice cream like her mommy!