Is This Fair?

It is still hockey season in the Northern household. There was a wonderful week of seventy and eighty degree days, during which the Northerns spent a lot of time outside and tried to switch Toddler from hockey to baseball. Unfortunately, it started snowing again this week. To Toddler, that means that it's still hockey season. NorthernDaddy is thinking that renting out an entire ice rink for Toddler's birthday didn't help things...and buying Toddler an honest-to-goodness-real hockey stick probably wasn't a good way to try and end the season, either.

So, the kitchen hockey continues. The photo below shows the rather nice hockey goal that NorthernToddler gets to shoot at when trying to score a goal.

This photo shows the goal that Toddler has set up for Daddy to shoot at to make a goal.

Is this fair?

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Toddler posing in front of his neato new goal - it has little white LEDs in the tubes that make the front frame glow. Really cool.

Hockey Cake!

DUCKIES

NorthernDaddy got scooped. He was out picking up one of Toddler's birthday presents (to be presented at the rink for his ice skating/hockey party), so NorthernMommy got to be the one to take Toddler to pick up the new ducklings. She got home first, got her camera first, and posted first. http://haphazardlysustainable.blogspot.com/2012/03/make-way-for-ducklings.html

NorthernToddler even named the three ducklings before Daddy got home! Quack, Mack, and Jack. That doesn't sound anything like the names Daddy was thinking of.... He was thinking of "Roast", "Lunch", and "Confit".

The ducklings are very cute, but they remain dinner. Whether the Northerns keep the flock at three or go back for another round (six), not one of these ducks are being kept past October. Well, they'll be kept....in the freezer. So, while Toddler is naming the ducks and giggling at the way they nibble on him, NorthernDaddy is studying on how best to fatten them up and methods of 'processing'.

Stay tuned!