Dinner Time

It's been impossible to find suppers that the whole family is in the mood for.  For quite some time we've been waiting til after I get off work to make a quick trip to the grocery store and grab something that sounds good to everyone at that time.  It's not easy...frustrating most of the time!  Our schedules are so different.  Zack is home from college til the end of October and Troy has switched back to his night shift.  Some nights it's just me and the kids and some nights Troy is there too...it's driving me crazy.  I really want to go to the store...buy a weeks worth of food and be done with the spur of the moment planning.  Kyle settles on cereal a lot of nights and last night Zack didn't even eat.  Because I couldn't get anyone to decide on anything yesterday, I decided to just fix rotel cheese dip for supper..I know...REAL HEALTHY...but I was just tired of trying to figure it out.  As I stood there cutting up the cheese into a bowl I realized just how blessed I really was...no matter what I fixed to eat.  Our kitchen isn't very big, but at supper fixing time it gets even smaller.  Last night, Troy propped himself upon the counter to the left of the stove...yes, at 40 something, sitting on the counter still happens...and to the right of the stove, Kyle sat.  There were legs in the way of opening all of the drawers, their bodies blocked the cabinet doors...and the sink was blocked by an almost 20 year old leaning on the counter.  The empty space in the floor was filled with the 4-legged kids trying to catch a dropped crumb...or one thrown on purpose.  I realize that these days are numbered.  Caitlyn, our middle baby, has already moved out,  Zack will graduate college in May and Kyle is already a teenager.  I do long for the time that it is just me and Troy, but my heart aches at the thought of all my kids growing up and moving out.  I have to try and remember that no matter what is cooking in the kitchen, the time we all have squished in the tiny kitchen talking about work, home school, the news, music, car parts or when the next super hero movie is coming out is much more important than anything I could ever buy at a grocery store.