You Want Fries With That?

On Practicing for my new job..

Tonight, it was just the child and I.

Photo by Lucas van Oort on Unsplash

BW works late on Tuesdays and that means that the child and I have to fend for ourselves. Some nights we can wing it with some noodles and questionably aged sauce from the back of the fridge but for tonight: BW had a plan.

She ordered a Blue Apron and on the menu were burgers and fries. If there’s one thing I can do, it’s follow instructions¹ and today’s recipe was pretty easy: slice some taters and fry a burger and there you have it.

When the child found out what was for dinner she was thrilled and wanted to help and then somehow before I knew how or why we were now playing restaurant.

And according to the child there’s really only one restaurant - and that’s McDonald’s

I'm not sure how it happened but before I could say no she was helping and we were making a Happy Meal for her doll.

not the doll in the background and also the McDonald’s written on the apron. You can’t cook without an apron.

So, I put my little sous chef to work:

Then we just had to wait for the burgers and fries to cook and we had our very own homemade Happy Meal.

first we had to make a container for the fries.

the burger all wrapped up.

the happy meal all wrapped up. The toy is the top half of a plastic ice cream cone.

I have to tell you that she loved it and all through the meal all I heard was “nom nom nom” as she ate pretty much the entire burger.

She did learn a lesson tonight unfortunately, and that is that chapped lips and salty fries are not a good combo, so that ruined our little party a bit. She tried to put a Band-Aid on the lip but I had to explain that you really can’t bandage a lip.

That’s it! We made a happier happy meal.

Until Next Time,

TH and Co.

1. Oh, Hi, BW. I didn’t see you standing there.