Comic Strips and General Conference

This is a continuation on the comic strip theme from my last post.  With General Conference around the corner, I often find myself wondering how I will remember and apply all the good council we'll hear.  Well, here's a new method: read the funnies page.  This is Pickles from March 25, 2011:


What the grandpa should have said was "President Thomas S. Monson once said ..."  I love that Pickles is quoting Grandpa now.

Spooning

As you know, I enjoy the funny pages of the newspaper.  I now read most of my favorite comic strips online.  This was my favorite of the day. 

Spaghetti O's

Now, I have never seen the draw of Spaghetti O's. That is probably because we did not eat Spaghetti O's growing up and so I do not find them to be particularly palette pleasing. I know some of us do (Jed). However, when we were in Texas, I did feed Amelia Spaghetti O's with meatballs on the night we arrived before I made my Walmart baby food run. Amelia loved them. So last night when we were planning to leave her for a date, one of the rare times since she was born, I decided to treat her to Spaghetti O's.
   She ate Spaghetti O's and I tried her Spaghetti O's but ate something else for dinner and then Alan and I dropped Amelia off at her daycare. The daycare does a "Date Night" once a month where the teachers stay until 10:30 so that the parents can have an evening out if they like. So we dropped her off and then continued on our way for the date.
  Well about 15 minutes after dropping her off I started feeling a little queasy. That lasted the rest of the night. It began to get super intense on our car ride back to the daycare. I asked Alan to check his phone to make sure the daycare had not called to tell us Amelia was sick, but they had not. However, when we arrived at daycare we found that Amelia had been sick and had thrown up all over herself, the teacher and the bed! Poor Amelia (and poor teacher).
Was it the Spaghetti O's? We cannot say for sure, but it certainly did little to redeem them in my eyes. So, Amelia and I enjoyed a night of food poisoning together. We are both doing much better today.
I do not wish any bouts of food poisoning on any of you any time soon!