Getting Dinner

Getting dinner usually involves asking older children to entertain younger ones, and/ or get stuff from the downstairs for me to fix in the kitchen. Today's special is from Kraft. This is another time of day that is SO SO SO much easier now that the children are home from public school. There will invariably be homework on an inconvenient night, or an activity we *have* to attend or forever be labeled a "bad parent," or a big batch of papers to read (Sign up for Karate! Did you know that next Thursday is Mrs. Higginbottom's birthday? Next week is Silly Sock week! The following Thursday, bring in all your spare change because the classes are competing to see who can raise the most for the United Way!) and you HAVE to read them or you are certain to miss something of deadly importance. I can tell you that for a fact. Then there are the little notes with the smilies from the teacher 'requesting' that you bring in x number of brand Y widgets. If you don't, the recipe the entire class is making won't work. You have two days notice and tons of appointments and/or bad weather on both those days, and the item is not in your house.