Nahh, she knows that's not true because I'd already talked about letting the kids have "They Cook Saturday Night" for that night. S-almost-10 got a Kid Cookbook for Xmas last year -- he's totally into Iron Chef and Anthony Bourdain for some reason, LOL -- and keeps bugging me to let him do some of the recipes. He'd mentioned it to her as something to do at her house, and she said (correctly) she knows nothing about the kitchen, so maybe that was a better Dad-and-him activity. So I'd already said I might start it next Sat nite, so that trick is a non-starter.
It's one thing to be "mysterious," quite another to lie.
