Dinner at Lansberry’s (Gabrielle)
 Last night before dinner Raquel inflicted upon me some choice Alan Sherman music in our never-ending quest to make sense to each other. I felt like I would have enjoyed more of the music much more if I actually knew the songs he was spoofing. It was funny, but I knew I was missing something.
After James dished out the food and we sang and prayed there was a slight disturbance over some green beans, but it got all sorted out. Raquel was insisting that she didn’t want any green beans because there might not be enough to go around and I was pushing some of mine onto her plate and Theresa was holding the bowl of green beans right under her nose and everyone was insisting she have the rest. When I say it got all sorted out I mean Raquel wisely bowed to our wishes, though not before I had to move my plate out of her reach.
Theresa’, Raquel’ and most of the Lansberry children’s One Good Things all had to do with the After Halloween sale shopping they had done that day. Peter had bought a My Little Pony basket and was wearing it on his head after dinner. It was a fine basket, but it made for a peculiar hat. Theresa was thankful no one had stolen anything out of the van though they all had forgotten to close one of the van doors when they went into a store. Crystal’s One Good Thing was that she beat the store in the game they play every week to find out who can get the best deal out of the other.
After dinner Seth went to work on the house and I chatted with Theresa’s and Raquel’s mother for a bit when she called. Eventually Crystal and I rounded the Ben-Ezra bunch up and headed home. After the little ones were in bed I walked back over and picked up Raquel to go work on the house. All in all, a fine evening and, Raquel, the Pasta Gloop was very good.