Dinner and a Prayer

We were headed home at about 5:30ish trying to decide what to eat for dinner when we got stuck in construction traffic on the highway. We were literally 10 or less cars from our road and we were stuck for at least 15 minutes. So as our dinner discussion continued we narrowed down our options and finally decided on Chinese. When the girls heard that, they immediately jumped on the idea and wanted to not only fix Chinese, but put the card table on the floor and sit on pillows while we eat. While that was a really good idea, going to a Chinese restaurant was sounding better and better the more we sat on the road stuck in construction right by our house. So we had a vote.......two adults vote restaurant and four kids vote home. Hmmm....kind of backwards from usual! We weren't happy with the results of the vote, so we texted my friend Becky and decided that if she was in the town where the Chinese restaurant was, we would go there with her, and if she was home, we would cook at home.
And the verdict was.....

home

Autumn and I lost. So we came home and cooked a great Chinese meal. We made stir fry, rice, and lo mein. The girls set up the card table, well really they just laid it on the floor, and they put pillows on the floor to sit on. Autumn made hot tea and we served them the food and tea while singing our best Chinese song (remember we don't really know Chinese, but we fooled the girls!) The girls were amazed at our Chinese speaking talents and wanted to know where we learned the language!

Our dinner turned into a little cultural experience and then to prayer for the Chinese people. We talked about China and how we all want to go there and S cried because she doesn't want to go and she doesn't want us to go without her! Go figure! The evening ended with a fun game that H accidentally started. After everything she said, she did this kind of fake nasally laugh for some reason. It was so funny that we just made it a rule. After everything we said, we had to do that fake nasally laugh.....it was SO fun and SOOOOOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a great night with few fits, fights and fusses thrown in!