Cereal for dinner anyone?

The kids have been out of school because of the "Arctic weather" which means lots of lazy time around here. And you know what laziness can do to moods...David and I found ourselves worrying about certain things that we can do nothing about and in the end getting irritated with one another.

I went to the store before dinner to get some lasagna noodles and ended up just taking my time to have a little alone time. By the time I got home it was getting a little too late to be just starting on lasagna. Hyrum was following my every move because I had brought home some Trix cereal and wanted a few handfuls of it. David and I have never done this before but we thought, what the heck! Why not have cereal for dinner. It made me think of my friend, Brittany, and her realization that it is ok to not be the "perfect" mother. That sometimes hard days come and you do what you have to do to stay sane and most importantly, that is ok. It turned out to be the funnest thing. We called the kids into the kitchen and said, "You can have whatever you want for dinner...I don't care if it is a can of olives...YOU PICK!" So they ended up with a few bowls of cereal, ravioli, black olives, and GoGurts. I laughed at all the "that's disgusting" comments that David made and enjoyed all the many compliments from Brigham about how this was the best meal ever! The feeling was still in the air after David cleaned up and so off to the living room we went to play Tip It and a Memory game. I think our evening turned out quite nice after all.