Little known fact about ice cream – it’s the fifth food group. Nobody ever talks about it but every nutritionalist worth his/her salt knows you can’t live without ice cream.

After a long hard day at the office, a warm comforting meal from your loving spouse, and a jaunty walk with the pooch there’s nothing like settling down to a hot night with a cool bowl of ice cream. Unless, of course, there isn’t any. Unless, it’s all been eaten by that loving spouse. Now I’m not complaining, no sir. If your loving spouse has been carrying around a baby that is, as JT puts it, “content where she is” then that spouse has a perfect right, on these hot summer days, to eat ice cream morning, noon and night. But, I do take offense that the warning about the serious lack of ice cream in the freezer came not after the dishes were done, not after the blog was blogged, but AFTER the dog was walked and it was time to settle down for the evening. This is not the time to point out there is no chocolate, there is no vanilla, there is no carmel fudge cherry sorbet. For those wondering, the time is when the husband walks in the door from the long hard day at work:

“Hi dear, dinner’s cooking – and I ate all the ice cream (tee hee).”

“That’s ok my incredibly wonderful and adoring wife. I know it’s hot and you’ve been working hard even though that cute little baby just won’t budge. There’s nothing like a cool bowl of ice cream to make you feel a better, isn’t there. I’ll stop by the store after I walk to dog and pick us up some more!”

Now in a perfect world, that’s the way it should be. But alas we don’t live in a perfect world, we actually live in a house without ice cream. Luckily the store is just around the corner, and I’m about to go get me some 🙂