Dinner time is special time....

Lately, I've been trying to make dinner a tad more special.  I almost always am cooking up a new recipe, or bringing back an old favorite.  My kids tend to remind me of Garth from Wayne's World.  You remember that part, where Benjamin (Rob Lowe) is trying to talk to Garth about having the sponsor on the show weekly, and Garth (Dana Carvey) has the weird helmet and is working on some sort of mechanical hand?  Just before the hand starts moving, Garth says "Change? We fear change."  

Yeah.

That's pretty much my kids.

Which is why, like a glutton for punishment, I try new recipes 3 to 4 times a week.

In an effort to try to trick them into focusing on something other than the food, I used a gift card and purchased some table clothes, cloth napkins, place mats, plates and pulled out our dusty wine glasses and started setting the table.

It worked. Like twice.

This is a typical dinner scene in my house.

The table is set, looking very nice.  The house smells lovely, like garlic and herbs. Wine glasses are filled with milk, juice or water.

The kids noticed that the camera had come out, so I got some smiling faces prior to dishing out the food.  *Please note, I had already heard from the older one that she "wasn't hungry".  This is code for "I don't like what you are making.  I'm not even going to try it.  Why do you hate me?  I fear change."

 

Then, the food was doled out.

One was adamant about not even trying it.

The other seemed to like it.

Yep.  This is dinner time at my house.

And because I happened to catch an awesome face directed at her sister, I just had to add it.