Dinner or Dancing

On Tuesday nights we arrive home late, at 7:30pm. Tuesday nights is our Calgary Boys Choir rehearsal, and since it is at Mount Royal (40 minutes away), we leave as soon as school gets out and then do homework for 30 minutes until choir starts. If we leave our neighbourhood later, we are always late for choir (traffic and accidents seem to multiply when you want to get across the city during that time of day). So Tuesday nights are often an empty-out-the-fridge meal, and a little bit chaotic, but last night takes the cake.

Gabe was having left over spaghetti and meatballs, I was having left over caesar salad, Zack was having oatmeal and yogurt, and Audra was having left over noodle soup. Art had eaten already. Gabe was telling us about choir, and he said they were learning a new song. And here are the next 30 seconds in an attempt at a play-by-play about how a family dinner can get away from you:

Gabe - "We are learning this new song... Splish splash I was taken a bath long about a saturday night"

Zack joins in - "A rub-a-dub relaxin' in the tub"

Art - goes over to the stereo and puts on the Splish Splash song

Gabe and Zack - they start the song again and sing along to the music

Audra - she is jigging her body, she can't hardly contain herself in her booster chair

Zack - gets up and starts dancing and singing

Gabe and Zack - keep singing with the music "thinkin' everything was alright"

Audra - slides down from her chair and starts dancing

Gabe - starts dancing too

" They was a-splishin' and a'splashin'... "

Marcia - can't swallow her mouthful of salad she is laughing, but also wondering if the kids will be hungry when she puts them to bed because now it is close to 8pm.

Sometimes it feels like we have more than 3 kids.