Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Dinner time humor

After putting in my hours at the office; playing with paper all day, I head home to make a "delicious" dinner, as my son puts it.  It's the same routine as I head out,  kids call me same time asking whats for dinner.  I think it's funny!  Somehow they envision me cooking and driving!  Forget texting and driving, oh no, it's cooking for me.  So my little girl is hilarious, witty too.  My older daughters (the university child) boyfriend is on a no-junk-diet.  He had a physical last week and needs to shed a few pounds.  I think it's the junk food and eating out.  It's not that it's all bad, but it's not as nutritous and so expensive.  So we are having dinner and I ask him about fast food.  He laughs and says "no fast food today".   My comedian daughter starts to relate a story about when she was "younger" (mind you, she is 13!) she and her siblings would ask their mother (me) for a glass of water.  Her mommy would say to breathe in some air; there is condensed water in the air.  Just gulp it down!  My daughter is making me look like a water prude!  I don't know if there is such a thing,  but it seems that I am one!!  Now I KNOW I never said that!!  Oh she makes me laugh, and everyone else at the dinner table too.  I do recall telling the kids "no" when I considered their request  to be junk food.  I would say no; you just ate or dinner is almost ready.  Usually they would enhance their request with "but I'm hungry".  I would say go drink a glass of water.  It's a family inside joke now.  We still get a good laugh about that.  As the years have gone by the stories have been enhanced, much funnier now.  I enjoy and look forward to dinner time.  I'm sure the kids do too.  We take any opportunity to bond and laugh!

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