Getting ready for Jack to leave for Notre Dame!

The week leading up to Jack leaving for college was all about Jack--lots of going away dinners, parties, and pizza!!  

Ten years ago this month, I did something out of desperation--I gave my oldest son, Jack, $100 dollars to try a slice of pizza.   I was, as I said, desperate.   He was 8 years old, and didn't like pizza.  Pizza for a child is a main stay of every birthday party, Saturday night sleepover--and for us, it was every Friday night's dinner.   I needed him to eat pizza, which I knew he would, if he just tried it.   Finally, I offered him $100 to try a piece of pizza--and I don't regret it at all (parents--do you realize that all the money you give your child eventually comes back to help you--he may use it for ice cream, or a magazine, or a movie, but it is ultimately money he isn't asking you for...just my way of thinking about it).   Anyway, I accomplished what I wanted--he loved it, and we have never looked back.

The first un-paid for slice of pizza was at Cosimos, a place in Chestnut Hill.   It has taken us 10 years, but to celebrate Jack leaving for college, we went back to Cosimos and had pizza the Friday night before he left for Notre Dame--I can't believe it took us ten years to make it back there, but there have been many Friday night pizza dinners since then!!

And of course, we walked down to Bredenbeck's for some ice cream--it has been an absolutely beautiful Summer here outside Philadelphia--low 80's every day, very few days in the 90's.   A gorgeous night!!