What is it about those meals?

We are not a big happy meal supporting family. No, our kids have been deprived for NUMEROUS years of those outrageously expensive, cheap toy packing meals. Years ago when the boys were small and Eric was a baby, I had a friend who bought her kids those things ALL the time. Me? I told my kids 'no' and then bought a value meal for them to share. Mean ol' mommy making them drool over their friends' toys.

My opinion on happy meals hasn't changed much over the years. However, McDonald's got smart. They offer the $1.49 kids meal on Thursdays.....and don't my kids know it! They know how to weasle that offer in with their pleas for the rare purchased meal. I think they bugged us all summer and the timing never worked out, or I wasn't in the mood, or, or, or. Well, I promised them that they would get one before school started. And well, technically, I didn't make it. However, the kids were so jazzed about it being a 'first day of school celebration dinner ' (if you could call it a dinner.....bleck) that I think they forgave my oversite.

And Aaron, atlhough he politely declined my offer to get him one too, was kind enough to pose with the fam. We sure have some terrific 'extra' kids that hang out with us!!

Now, ask me where the toys are that went with those meals? Yeah, I don't know.