“Eat your food, Tina”
Dinner can be a frustrating time for me. The girls rarely want to eat the same thing and sometimes don’t want anything I offer them – and Avery occasionally prefers to play with her food rather than eat it. In an attempt to keep my sense of humor about it all, I turn to a line from the cult classic Napoleon Dynamite; “Eat your food, Tina!” I’ll say to the girls. (Tina, for those of you haven’t seen the film, is a llama.) After hearing this several nights in a row, an exasperated Zoe recently said to me, “I am NOT Tina. I do NOT like it when you call me that.”
Woops – I guess I’ll have to come up with another coping mechanism for dinnertime!
-M