Around the Dinner Table

I remember, once upon a time, quiet romantic dinners. These are now just a distant memory. Dinner is somehow never the same after the kids arrive. The nice dishes are replaced by plastic 4/$1.00 Wal-mart plates. Dinner is served much earlier. Mac and cheese is considered an entree, not a side dish. But all of this pales in comparison to the drastic change in dinner conversation.

This is a list of things said at our dinner table (many of them more than once):

• Don't growl at your brother!
• Stop digging in your stuff! followed by...
• Go wash your hands, again!
• Stop peeing on the floor!
• Don't feed your (fill in the blank) to the puppy!
• We don't put our feet on the table!
• Don't stand on the table!
• Did you pops? (our word for passing gas)
• We don't wipe boogers on the table!
• You have to wear panties at the table!

And, that was just this week!!!