Crab Juice

This is not a blog including an amazing shellfish recipe…as the title may suggest. If you know us at all, you know that my husband is an amazing speaker, and an even better dad. He loves to spend time with his boys, telling stories, being outdoors, or just lazing around watching a movie. Also, if you have had the privilege of being around Jason for any period of time you know he likes to make up names for things or purposely mispronounce them. Ben (5), Sam (5), and Jack (3) hang on his every word. Which means that I will follow behind Jason making sure that the english language stays as confusing for my kids as it was for me learning all the crazy rules and exceptions…making sure they know ‘elephant’ is pronounced ‘el-e-fant’ not ‘el-e-pant’. That ‘fajita’ is ‘fa-heet-a’ not ‘fa-jite-a’ (that one could cause some problems). Jason also likes making up names and making stories just outlandish. He has an imagination that is much like our kids. That is a characteristic that I am jealous of! Goes right along with his attitude of how all will work out and all will be ok. Jealous of that one too. One made up name has stuck. My mom had bought a box of those little packages of flavoring that you add to you water bottle and left them here. The boys wanted to know what they were. So Jason made up a batch of ‘Lobster Juice’. They loved it!!! And now the name has morphed into…you guessed it ‘Crab Juice’. So this morning, Jack was feeling quite peuny after having some tummy issues and asked for some crab juice. so as I was running errands this am I stopped by the pedialyte aisle to grab some of their individual pouches. Mixed in with 8 oz of water in a sippy cup that has been made the designated sick cup, makes my Jack a happy boy! Yeah for crab juice and for an amazing daddy who makes the ordinary extraordinary.