Funny Family Home Evening

When I was younger, I remember my mom doing a lot of things to keep dinner fun. Whether it was going out to the gap and roasting hot dogs on the WRONG rake (my dad didn't come out until later and only then did he realize that the rake she brought was the one he had used earlier that afternoon to spread fertilizer in the garden...,..OOOPS!!!!), or going up to the Yankee and all of us squishing back into the car to eat cause it's too cold outside, and being called a bunch of "pantywaists" by my dad, and then all of us unable to stop laughing so dad had to say the blessing on the food, and then HE starts laughing in the middle of saying the blessing. Ahh good times...good times.

Another of my favorite dinners was what she called good sport dinners. We would always have these when there were getting to be a lot of leftovers in the refrigerator so she would heat up a bunch of different left overs and put them on plates (each plate having something different on it) then she would cover the plate with a bowl so you couldn't see what it was. Then each plate was numbered and we would draw numbers and have to eat the corresponding plate number and be a GOOD SPORT about it. I remember being realllllly bummed sometimes with what I got, and other times feeling pretty lucky, although not TOO lucky because the really good dinners never had any leftovers--logically!

But probably my favorite of the fun dinners was "try to eat spaghetti with this" night. She would chose her hardest utensils in the kitchen and we would have to try to eat spaghetti with it. There are some really funny pix of us growing up doing this but since I am an idiot and don't know how to scan and use old pictures, you will just have to trust me on this one. I did however take plenty of good pictures of doing it the other night. It was fun and the kids really enjoyed doing it. I think this is one tradition that will go on in my little family.

Sorry about the double pix of me (even though it's sooooo attractive). for some reason it posted twice and I couldn't figure out how to delete it.