Tonight was Monday night... Family Night. It is pure joy and love. Ethan and Eli both have a big night of homework, and then there is the always pleasant dinner time routine, and then trying to get through a lesson with Sadie crying and wrestle mania going on.
Dinner:
Becky: Time for Dinner!!
Becky: Time for Dinner!!
Becky: Dinner's Ready!!
Becky: (Walk to the stairs and try again) Dinner is Ready NOW!!
A few people straggle down the stairs. Jonah and Eli are still playing the wii.
Becky: (Walk up the stairs and tell Jonah and Eli to turn off the wii and come and eat)
Eli: But I hardly got to play, and it's not fair, because Jonah got a lot more time than me, because I was doing my homework, so it's not FAIR, so you better let me play after DINNER!!! (runs downstairs)
Ethan is missing from the table. Oh well.
CJL: Janie, will you say our prayer?
Janie: Uh, no.
CJL: Please?
Janie: no.
CJL: Says the prayer.
Eli: Do I have to eat my salad? This doesn't even TASTE like salad. What IS this?
Jonah: Do I have to eat my salad? This is DISGUSTING.
Janie: Doing laps around the table
Sadie: Just happy to get any food on her little tray with all of the dishing up going on.
CJL and I try to start a conversation but it is immediately drowned out by Jonah telling a story about underpants and Eli telling about Super Diaper Baby and Janie trying to climb up to eat and falling down and getting hurt and then wailing about it.
Becky: Shoveling food in and trying to feed Sadie and pour dressing on Jonah's salad and getting Eli a breadstick and get Janie a piece of pizza.
Ethan is still missing. Take a walk to find him in the office playing a game on the iPhone. REALLY?
(As a side note, I got a bill from my iTunes account today for $10.60, all which was Minecraft games that were purchased without my knowledge this week.)
Clear up the dishes, and get ready for Family Night. VERY IRONICALLY our Family Night starts out with:
CJL: Welcome to Family Night
Rest of us: Glad to be here!!
Eli: comes running out of the bathroom with a panicked look on his face, and announces that he just flushed a cozy rice bag DOWN THE TOILET.
Of Course we all go to the bathroom and peer into the bowl, expecting something really bad to happen.
Eli: sobbing in the hallway
Nothing happened. Flush the toilet a few times. It is a Family Night Miracle!!
CJL in a low voice as everyone is leaving the area: How the HELL did that happen?
Maybe I carry around cozy rice bags too much because it didn't seem that crazy a circumstance.
Our lesson is about Friendship, and what makes a good friend. A brilliant idea, which we did, was whenever the story said cold prickly, you poke someone, and whenever it said warm fuzzy, you give someone a hug. Cute right? Cute WRONG. I was trying to read the story and got physically mauled by all of my children. I ended up in a dog pile twice with my head on the wood floor. It was ok until we tried to end the story, and everyone was too riled up to do anything except wrestle.
CJL and I both ended up yelling and getting frustrated. Awesome. Great job parents, good example of giving out warm fuzzies!!
Treats: Smores the British way with Digestives and nutella. Lots of black marshmallows. It was all over once Sadie sneakily grabbed the nutella knife.
Here's to another great Family Night!! Luv ya Monday!!!
6 comments:
We continue to believe that the blessing comes from following the counsel?1?...:) Also, in my defense, I made my comment under my breath and attempting humor while rolling my eyes...believe it or not...
Well good for you for still doing it! It's so many instances just like this, that we don't do FHE as much as we should. It's downright painful sometimes. I think Elder Bednar gave a talk about FHE and how most of them turned out like this, but that in the end when their boys were grown it was all worth it.
Oh, and thanks for making me feel better that I'm not the only one with crazy kids, lol! :)
This made me laugh so hard. I know it seems frustrating but your kids will have some great memories & you will laugh & laugh in the future.
We all miss you!
Curtis, now the girls know you swear :)
Becky, I almost peed my pants! I wish my girls were illiterate so I could write more of the other side of teens. that never gets to my blog. i know it is hard now, but I kind of miss those days. you are so smart to right it down.
Becky thanks for posting this - I really needed to laugh today. This sounds like our night everynight and my kids are a lot older!
Becky, you have a talent for writing! I love reading your blog - and I can SO RELATE!! It's nice to know other moms with 5 kids and not be the only one - which I feel like a lot of the time. :)
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