MomTime TV

If it weren't for the boys in this house...I would get through the fourth of July, being blissfully unaware of the hot dog eating contest that takes place every year! But no, all TV's are tuned to this famed event with all the hoopla a big day like this can muster!
And it is a true sporting event, short as it is. You've got the crowd of thousands. The hyped up intros of the contestants and boom the clock starts and the hot dogs go down the hatch! In all my long years of life, I have never eaten a hot dog like that. One plain hot dog, nothing on it, a dry bun and I'm done!
These guys dunk the buns til they're disintegrating and shove about 4 in at a time, followed by the same number of hot dogs. I couldn't tell if they chewed them or swallowed them whole. I cringed most of the way through, hands over my face half the time wondering what would motivate normal human beings to stuff their faces like that for ten minutes. However, I probably have eaten like that a few times when I've been hungry. And my kids probably eat like that sometimes. Hmmm, maybe it's time for some manners in my house.
Being a mom, you wonder at times what your kids will do in life, what their interests are, what special skills they have, and where they'll go with those things. I sincerely hope when I wake up to the hot dog eating contests on future July 4th's, that my kids are not contestants on them. I hope for more.
And here's the other thing...out of all the 20 or so people shoving down hot dogs, there were only two worth watching, no one else was in the race. And the winner, Joey Chestnut, won again, setting a new record and having a little distance between himself and #2. So why do the rest of those people compete? Why do they torment themselves when they have no chance of winning? I have no answers to that! Only a vast need to teach my kids better manners.
I think I gained 10 pounds watching that! I know I will not eat hot dogs today. And I am no longer hungry!
Let's go to breakfast!

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