{"id":4035,"date":"2014-12-19T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2014-12-19T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:34:27","slug":"yellow-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4035","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the kids were little, they both said the color yellow as \u201clellow.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Awww, so cute.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Lellow.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Why all the yellow biz?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>When I was younger, my mother would make what I called \u201cYellow Meals.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Everything at the dinner table was yellowish in color \u2013 parmesan chicken (which my little brother called frosting chicken \u2013 aren\u2019t kids cute?!), potatoes, corn.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

See?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Yellow.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Carb-loaded.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>No veggies or fruit to speak of.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Just yellow carbs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, I have used this as a measuring stick against which I compare the meals I serve my own children.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Is everything all one color?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Nope??<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Then we\u2019re good to go.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Eat up chillun\u2019s.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But last night?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Last night it all just hit me.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I could not decide ONE MORE TIME whether to serve broccoli or peas as the veggie which would still have several spoonfuls left in the bowl when the table was cleared.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>So I served corn.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The kids LOVE corn, but I never serve it because I\u2019m always serving rice or potatoes instead.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>And while the potatoes in this instance were fancy herbed wedges, they were still potatoes.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>And I did serve a fruit.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Pears.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>These gorgeous YELLOW pears my parents send us every Christmas.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>And the protein?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Frosting chicken.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not a single, solitary kernel of corn was left after the meal, nor potatoes, pears, or frosting chicken.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>EVERYTHING was consumed.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>And?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The kids didn\u2019t even ask for dessert afterwards.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>My.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>GoodnessGodnessAgnes!!!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>My mother is BRILLIANT!!!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Here I thought she was just exhausted from the endless 20 plus year grind of serving evening meals to a family of seven.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>But in fact, she just didn\u2019t have any dessert to serve us.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Bee..arr\u2026illiant!!!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I am sorry I doubted you all these years, Mom.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>You are GENIUS.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

More Yellow Meals from now on!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u2018Cept we\u2019re gonna call them Lellow Meals.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Put our own twist on things so we\u2019re not TOTAL copycats.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Lellow.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>So cute.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the kids were little, they both said the color yellow as \u201clellow.\u201d\u00a0 Awww, so cute.\u00a0 Lellow.\u00a0 Why all the yellow biz?\u00a0 When I was younger, my mother would make what I called \u201cYellow Meals.\u201d\u00a0 Everything at the dinner table was yellowish in color \u2013 parmesan chicken (which my little brother called frosting chicken \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4041,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}