What is and What isn't

Welcome to my weekly report of What is and What isn't; where I am the judge, and you scratch your head and wonder what's the point.


1. What isn't: Dental Advertisements

I was looking through my local ads for a dentist and kept coming across beautiful ads for family photography. I saw many cute pictures and thought, "Wow! There are some good family photographers in this area."
Double take.
They are all dental ads. What? Why? I guess what the ads are trying to say is, "If you get your cavity filled with us, it will transform your lame family into a smiling, happy family that wears matching clothes while hugging on a beach, or while holding hands running through a green meadow, or while standing in front of a large cluster of mossy rocks." (I can mock because I've taken "those kinds" of matching family photos myself).

I did finally find one ad that sported a giant toothbrush brushing giant teeth which read, "Need a dentist?" Guess which dentist I am going to call? Bottom line: A lame dental ad definitely isn't.

2. What is: Zucchini

This week I made Fried Zucchini and Zucchini Bread. My kids ate all of it, loved it, and I in turn felt like a good home-maker for using a home-grown vegetable and feeding my family something home-made. There was just so much "home" going on it was brilliant. And I am positive my kids knew that by frying up some fresh zucchini what I really was trying to saying was, "I love you." Kids totally understand subtext parenting. Right?

Bottom line: Despite it having an awkward sometimes embarrassing shape, and despite that it may over crowd our gardens, when it's cooked up for dinner, zucchini definitely is.