A Real Life Garbage Disposal

Since Dallas moved in our grocery bill has tripled!! Someone should have reminded me how much teenage boys could eat! OMG!! It's insane. He eats breakfast, and then a snack and then lunch and then another snack and then when he gets home from school, he eats again. Then there's dinner and then I notice he eats again (not a little but a lot) before he goes to bed. I can not keep enough food in this house!

His maternal grandparents live in Amarillo and see Dallas on a regular basis. I have heard little comments through Dallas that they don't think I am feeding him enough because he has lost weight since he moved in! Really? Have they seen my grocery bill???

The reason he has lost weight is because he is going through puberty AND he is involved in athletics and they work out at school.

Last week I made cookies after dinner. Dallas and I had a few and then I put the leftovers in a ziplock bag on my kitchen counter. There were at least six left. The very next night I go to get a cookie and guess what? They are ALL gone. I was so mad. I REALLY wanted one of those cookies!! I didn't say anything to Dallas but I was not happy that I wasn't going to get my cookie fix that night. How rude of him to eat ALL of the cookies!

Last night while sound asleep I was awakened to my six year old Golden Retriever throwing up. Guess what he threw up? A plastic ziplock bag! I should have known. The only being in this house that eats more than Dallas is my dog! He will eat anything! (and I do mean ANYTHING)

This dog is insane about food. He weighs about 85 lbs. and is obsessed with eating. He has helped himself to six hamburger buns and three turkey burgers straight off my countertop one night. Another night, he ate a pan of lemon bars that were going to be used for a bridal shower.

So, as much as Dallas eats, Tobey (my dog) eats more and he's not even a teenager anymore....he's just crazy!