butter and graham crackers?

First off...hooray that my dad is home! He has spent the past three-ish weeks on a missions trip to Ethiopia. I'll write about his trip another time. For now, I'd like to talk about something hilarious regarding my dad. It seems like most people have that one food that they just can't keep around the house, otherwise they'll eat it all. Like some people can't keep chocolate chips or baking chocolate on hand...because they end up as snacks (that was for you, Susan).

Well, my dad has a few foods on this list that are rather odd. Among them are cereal and graham crackers. I know...they seem like harmless foods, right? Not when John gets a hold of them! If cereal is in the house (even healthy kinds), he'll go through 2-3 bowls of it a night until it is gone. Now with the graham crackers, it isn't actually the crackers that are the problem. It is the fact that he smothers them with butter (yes, butter) and eats them one after the other. You see, my dad LOVES butter and refuses to eat anything we cook unless we use real butter (however I have tricked him a time or two with margarine...and I swear he never knew!).

A while back my mom bought some graham crackers to have on hand for when Cameron comes over. As soon as my dad zeroed in on them, they began to disappear. So he asked my mom to hide them from him. My mom hid them in the guest room closet. The next morning, upon walking into the kitchen, she saw this on the counter. Apparently she didn't find a good enough hiding place!