Evendays

Last week we had 11 students for the Thursday night dinner. The meal was fabulous and everybody ate everything but for a few potatoes. The great dessert (brownies, vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce) got vaporized in nano-seconds. 

Our question this week was easy, one that a last year’s student sent to me: What’s a Halloween treat that you love? I changed it to "treat or tradition", and off the conversations went… Everything from taking advantage of a younger sibling (trading SIX Tootsie Rolls for FIVE Snickers — such a deal) to pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating for UNESCO… I mean UNICEF.

Later, they started talking about the best stocked pantries (they were PASSIONATE), and that the way to be popular in elementary school was to have a mom with the best possible snack foods in the pantry that eventually ended up in your sack lunch. I was completely lost as the Pepperdine students compared peanut butter snacks to cheese snacks to various other healthy goodies.

(My mom made great lunches: peanut butter and jelly (never tuna), potato chips, a ding-dong or a ho-ho, milk money, something else I could eat during the morning break.)

After they had talked of every possible snack found in COSTCO or SAM’S WAREHOUSE aisles, they then switched to the best films of all time, which seemed (to me) to all have BATMAN somewhere in the title.

A fun night.