One Size Never Fits All

This has to be one of the funnest, bestest, greatest birthday party activities I have ever seen!

Take 10 kids, stick them in the kitchen whipped up with high doses of sugar and birthday party excitement and sharp knives (and careful instructions) and what do you get?

CANDY SUSHI!!!  It looks wonderful and so imaginitive.  I wish I could think up things like this on my own, but alas, I was given the good looks and the big genes in the family and not the creative ones.

Have a look at Candy Sushi!

1 Bento Box for me, please!

“Uncle Fatty.”

That’s what a friend’s son called me: “Uncle Fatty.” Not once, but five or six times. He kept saying it over and over and laughing as his parents tried desperately to shut him up.

I wasn’t really embarrassed about it at all. His parents are good friends (I’m pertty sure they know I’m big) and the boy was innocent. The parents were embarrassed; I laughed about it. It wasn’t the first nor the last time a young child had made an observation about my size, and I’m sure it will happen again.

I once had done the very same thing…
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