A Road Less Travelled

I haven’t written a Dinner at Lansberry post in a while. I guess I just got kinda tired of writing them. When I plan to write a blog post about an event when I’m at the event it’s like I’m not really there. I’m just watching, taking notes in my head. Or I’m not taking notes and I am there, but then later, when I sit down to write, I have nothing to say. A conundrum. That’s why you haven’t read about our dinners in a while. We are still eating together, I’m just not writing about it.

Last night, however, I knew I would want to write about it. I knew I would want to a write a post about it for a week or more.

A little while ago Crystal was looking through her coupon fliers and came upon a coupon for Baskin-Robbins. On May 2nd as a fund raiser they would be selling ice cream for 31 cents a scoop. Crystal thought this was a fabulous idea. We’ve started alternating who’s house we eat at and May 2nd would be at our house. We would all be together and after dinner we could all go out for ice ream together.

So after a truly scrumptious, elaborate dinner (sausage gravy over biscuits, scrambled eggs with sausage and cheese, fried potatoes, homemade apple-cinnamon scones, coffee, and steak for the grown-ups. Crystal didn’t have time to make the buckwheat pancakes as she’d planned.) we cleaned up and piled into our vans. I got kinda lost as to which children went with whom. I think we ended up with Toby, Isaac, Moria, Noah and Justice. We also had Raquel, but she’s not a child. Whoever went wherever with whomever we all got there. There was a line trailing out of the small store and, as it was a fire-fighter fund raiser, firemen doing crowd control. The children each got a plastic fireman hat (I wore Justice’s) and a sticker (Justice tried to eat his and then smear it on me). The man giving away the hats also tried to give us a piece of paper to write our order on, but we assured him we had already had all the children pick their flavors at home and we had it all written down. He was very impressed.

We politely elbowed our way into the store and got our ice cream. Seth still wasn’t back from finding a place to park the van and Crystal was ordering so I ended up holding Justice and three cups of ice cream he was trying to get to. After we got our ice cream we elbowed our way back outside and found comfortable piece of ground. Justice did really well with his ice cream, always asking for the next bite and he didn’t throw a fit when the cup was done. I think he knew I had scraped it as best I could. For some reason Noah also wanted to sit by me. At first it was fine, but then he spilled the last bit of his ice cream on my leg. It tasted pretty good.

We managed to take both of our families out for ice cream for just over five dollars altogether. It was fun, crazy, tasty and sticky. But mostly fun. I’m glad we did it and hope everyone else had as much fun as I did.