From my blog “Family Matters”
How many of you actually eat dinner with your family every night?
It’s a hard thing to do, I know, but fortunately I have the opportunity almost every night to sit down and have an old fashioned dinner with my parents. Although we’re stuffing our faces with delicious cuisines we also talk, a lot. Sometimes discussions get a little crazy and we find ourselves saying, “How did we start talking about this?” As amused as I am by my family, I figured you readers might find these topics pretty entertaining, too.
Friday Night
It’s Friday evening and my brother and sister-in-law are out of town celebrating their anniversary which can only mean one thing. My 2-year-old nephew Aiden and my 4-year-old niece Briana are staying with us for the weekend. This should be good. My dad has just come home from work and brought the fastest meal you can make after spending the entire day entertaining children, Little Caesar’s Pizza — pepperoni to be exact. As we sit down to eat, Briana realizes that my mom forgot to pour massive amounts of parmesan cheese on her slice, just like she likes it. For this reason only, the entire room now smells like feet.
Our dining area is open to the living room, where “TinkerBell and the Great Fairy Rescue” is playing on the big screen, requested by Briana, of course. The film catches my attention only after my dad yells out, “Oh! The guys are all fairies too!” Now that we’re all halfway through our second slice of cheesy goodness, we find ourselves actually watching this movie, which turns out to be quite good. It’s a great pick for a family night if you have children. In one of the final scenes of the movie, the father and daughter are flying, thanks to magic pixie dust and go right up to the famous clock tower in London and push the minute hand to 12 so it would ring midnight.
Can They Really Do That?
At this moment my father asks, “Now how could they really do that? I don’t think they could actually move that.”
My reply is, “Its magic, Dad! The fairies gave them pixie dust; they can do practically anything they want, duh!” This, he just can’t understand, only thinking of the clock in its mechanical form.
Now here’s what I don’t get. Why does he question them moving the clock, but not their flying? Thus, the rest of the meal we discuss fairies, magic and their possibilities. All this came from just a $5.99 large pizza and a DVD rented from the local library. Now that’s what I call a fun time.
