A Road Less Travelled

One of the super nice things about living this close to the Lansberry’s is that it makes dinner at their house much easier. We also moved dinner to Wednesday so that we don’t have to worry about vacuuming Seth’s workplace (our second job) on the day we have dinner. So instead of getting the little boys up from their naps, piling all the children into a van with all the paraphernalia we require to function and taking them to the Lansberry house with enough time for one of us to go vacuum we get them up after they’re awake, gather the children and some things we might need and walk down to the Lansberry’s house. We show up just before dinner with enough time to help set up and then we can have an enjoyable dinner without Justice getting stressed because he’s been around too many people for too long or Noah getting over-stimulated because all the children and all the running.

It was a small group this week- just the sixteen of us. We ate rice with some sort of sauce (I never asked) that I’m told Noah helped season, peas and really good bread. We did One Good Thing That Happened Today which is a tradition from my childhood wherein we go around the table and everyone gets to say one good thing that happened to them today. Seth’s and James’ revolved around a going away party their work threw for someone and how they each got to eat several different kinds of meat for lunch. Raquel’s had to do with a secret project she is working on so she was kind of vague on the details, but it was a good thing. Theresa discovered YouTube and wiled away a happy time with that. Crystal got her new shoes in the mail yesterday and found them to be very comfortable and I had gone to the library with the children. I don’t remember the children’s one good thing, but I do remember Samuel L. couldn’t think of one so we were going to come back to him, but before we could Peter stole the one he’d thought of. After dinner Theresa showed us some knitting movies she’d found on YouTube and then we talked until Justice started to melt down. I offered to take him home and ended up with Justice, Noah, Moriah, Elsie, Arianna and Raquel. It was really nice to leave before Noah became a mess. He walked around the room giving hugs goodbye and as we left he said, “Bye! Wuv you!” which was simply too cute for words.  I put the boys to bed and then made tea and popcorn for the girls. They had a lovely little party and I crushed Raquel at Boggle. Really, it was impressive. 64 to 109. Yep, crushed.

So, our dinner at Lansberry’s extended past the Lansberry house, but that’s okay. Last night was exactly the sort of thing I’d hoped would happen when we moved down here. And it did! Fancy that!