Fighting Adultitis!

Last weekend at the District 5 Engaged Encounter conference in Reno, NV, Tom and I accepted the challenge to fight Adultitis. Tonight, we began the battle with Barbarian Spaghetti! We heard the message delivered by Kim and Jason at http://www.kimandjason.com/ and http://www.adultitis.org/ and the epidemic of adultitis in the world. Tom and I realized we were beginning to suffer from this affliction. So, we decided to start implementing some of the ideas presented. We began with Barbarian Spaghetti.


What is Barbarian Spaghetti? Well, we chose plain ol’ spaghetti and meat balls.

We draped the table in a plastic tablecloth from the dollar store.

Then, we put some old t-shirts on the kids to protect their good clothes.

We decided to fight the good fight and made cherry Kool-Aid.

Then, we dumped the spaghetti on the table.

This is the point in time that the kids were shocked. The questions of what were we doing and where were the plates began. Once we pulled a pile of the yummy spaghetti to their spot at the table (with a fork), Aidan dived in.

It took Connor a few more minutes to really buy in. However, when he did, he LOVED it!

Aidan declared it the best dinner ever.

Connor decided it was fun to eat!

I have to say, I really enjoyed it. So did Tom!

Our spaghetti was not fancy. Nope, Barilla spaghetti sauce and frozen turkey meatballs. The best part was the clean up!

So, that was Barbarian Spaghetti! We loved it! I think it is a keeper and we will be doing it again. We fought Adultitis and won tonight 