Family Dinner

One of the huge perks of our new living accommodations is that we can finally all sit down at the table together and eat dinner. A simple thing, really, the gathering of the family at the table to enjoy a meal and each other's company at the end of the day. In our old house, this was not possible due to the small size of our kitchen. Here we have nothing but space and can easily fit at our table, which has been enjoyable and often humorous.

Take, for example, tonight's entertainment- upon setting the food out on the table, we all sit down and say Grace. It varies from day to day who says it, and what is said, but it always starts with "Dear Heavenly Father." At least it always USED to start with that, until tonight when M said she wanted to say Grace. We all held hands, bowed our heads, and then she began.

"Dear Harry Potter," said M.

Nate and I had the hardest time not laughing hysterically at this. She is but three, and tries very hard to speak like an adult. As you can see, things that are plainly understandable to us can often get parsed out incorrectly in her mind.

In other news, the common areas of the house are all painted and beautiful! Unfortunately, though, my custom ordered blinds arrived and are the wrong shade for our paint. And since they are custom ordered, I can not return them. And they were oh so stinking expensive. Looks like we'll be using Lowe's cut-to-fit blinds next, hah!