There are three foods that my kids never tire of eating:
- hot dogs
- macaroni & cheese
- meatballs
The meatballs, mind you, can be with or without spaghetti. Furthermore, the kids — Ryan especially — expect me to serve up meatballs with any kind of pasta dish. I hope you like meatballs, because if you eat at my house, you’re getting them with spaghetti, ziti, ravioli, tortellini, and yes, even with lasagna! It’s kind of like how you always have to take your organic prenatal vitamin when you’re pregnant, only in this case it’s about a certain food, and not important nutritional supplements.
Anyway, both kids were in heaven tonight, because our friend Jason came over and made a delicious spaghetti & meatballs meal. The meatballs were the size of tennis balls, and they were just oozing with delicious Italian flavors and general meaty goodness. We’re talking ground beef and ground pork, people. How awesome is that?!
What’s funny is that while Ryan was perfectly accepting of a larger-than-average meatball, so help you if you dared to serve him a meatball in a different shape. I’ll never forget the morning I made pancake puffs — same pancake recipe, just little muffin-shaped pancakes instead of the standard pancake. He wouldn’t touch ‘em, not even after I put butter and syrup on them and assured him six ways from Sunday that they were Mommy’s normal pancakes, just in a different shape.
Same thing goes for the meatballs. Larger than average meatballs? Sure. Smaller than average meatballs? Probably. But heart-shaped meatballs, or meatballs made into a loaf? Forget it!
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My name is Jenn, and I'm 27 years old. I'm happily married to my best friend and soulmate, Daniel. Together we have a six year old daughter named 
Name: Alyssa
Name: Ryan
