Both my wife and I really enjoy food. There isn’t much we don’t eat. I know a lot of people who won’t eat certain foods and I am one that loves most foods and only likes a few… if that makes sense.

I think we are also very fortunate we don’t have food allergies in the house. With 5 kids eating all at once it would be tough to have 4 of them be able to eat peanut butter while one couldn’t. We have been very fortunate.

But a typical Sunday morning I will cook up some omelets and I used to get away with one pan. Now I have to get two burners going. Same with hamburgers in the evening… unless of course I am on the grill. I stopped cooking so much steak because when we are all just sitting down for dinner I have to spend the next 10 minutes cutting steak into fine pieces and dishing them out to the kids. When I finally get to the last kid, the first one wants more. Chicken cuts more easily.

I haven’t done away with steak as we all love it but I don’t have it 3 or 4 times per week like we used to.

But all my kids eat well and fill their tummies. Wait until my 5th child starts solid food. It will be insane around here at meal time that’s for sure.

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My Kids Eat Like a Pack of Wild Wolves

Phil has been homeschooling now for a while and he even took his kids to Iraq to distribute ten tons of crayons, markers, and other art supplies to the children over there. (Edited: This was an April Fool’s joke that I fell for in January. I guess he did not go to Iraq!)

Some of the other things he has done:

- Phil is a soccer coach for his son’s soccer team.
- Phil homeschools his son and tells us why.
- Phil took is family on a trip to Mt. St. Helens and Kalaloch Beach.
- Phil was attacked by wolves and stuck on a ferris wheel and has pictures to prove it.
- Phil moved 10,000 pounds of granite into his yard. Nuts!
- Phil taught his son to fish.
- Phil volunteers his time down at the school.
- Phil took the family Snow Tubing for the first time.

This was all in 2006. So I would like to award Family Phil with the Dads on Duty award. Phil you can take your badge home.

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Dads on Duty – An Exceptional Dad Award