April 2011 A to Z Blogging Challenge

What is the A to Z Challenge? It’s blogging a letter of the alphabet every day the month of April (with Sundays off for good behavior.) It began April 1st, with the letter A and ends April 30th, with the letter Z. You can click here to see who else is participating in this challenge.




Today's post is for the letter:

V is for vanilla, as in vanilla ice cream. Vanilla has always been my favorite flavors of ice cream, but I like other flavors too: chocolate chip, mint chocolate chip, cookies and cream, black raspberry, and butter pecan to name a few. My son's father, however, is a vanilla guy. Only vanilla.

When our son was just a toddler, we lived in an apartment with our friend Stephanie. We would sit down at night to watch TV after supper and have ice cream for dessert. Usually one of us would get up and serve the rest of us, so when Stephanie asked my son's father what he wanted, he would always say vanilla. She would respond, "Boring." Soon our son started asking for "warink," and we had no idea what the heck he was talking about. Then one day, his father walked in with a bowl of vanilla ice cream and our little one screamed, "Warink!" We got it then. "Boring" vanilla ice cream was "warink."

Our son got married last year, so he's far removed from his "warink" days. When we saw him at Easter dinner this past Sunday, we had apple pie for dessert. We said it was too bad there was no "warink" to go with it.

Do you remember some of the words you or your children used to say? What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?