Every Now and Then Meals are Fun

Lines from supper tonight than wasn't an endurance test, like some meals are:

Leon was frustrating that his rice got in his fruit. We all heard Rand say, "Are you, like, Hmong or something? You have to have your food separated."

I ask, What do you mean? What does being Hmong (which Leon is) have to do with separating your food?"

You know, Monk, the guy on TV. He has that thing where his food has to be separated.


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Jimmy mentions it is trash removal tomorrow morning. He is confused because with the holidays we missed it last week and there is more trash than our four cans can hold. We tell him he needs to fill the four full and then put the trash in the empty cans. He gets confused, wondering how he is supposed to get the stuff back out to the street. The whole family participates in a conversation and almost has him convinced that he need to sleep by the trash cans all night long in a sleeping back so that when the truck comes he can say -- just a minute -- and push all four cans back and refill them while the garbage men wait. But then we told him we were kidding -- that they would be out there for next weeks pick up.


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When we thank Bart, he says we should thank Betty (Crocker) because she made the brownie mix and the pre-packaged rice. Wilson piped up "Is Betty your new wife?" and my witty husband reports, "Yup, she's the woman that I see on the side .... of the box."