Son Ben’s favorite dessert is banana cream pudding. Believe it or not, I’ve never made it before (he has a lot of favorite desserts so I’ve never delved into this particular one). But here it is, in a trifle dish, ready for demolishing.

An aside: when I was pregnant with him I craved banana cream pie.

Father’s Day was a great deal of fun here. When we weren’t eating, we were playing games. Mexican train dominoes, poker, Canasta and Spontuneous occupied us between meals. The cloudy, chilly, breezy, wet weather kept us inside. And we were fine with that.

My own father was represented by a crock pot of his meatballs, his “signature dish” for decades. He loved family celebrations of any kind and would have really enjoyed this particular one.

As did we all.