Dinner and a Book

Tonight MAC and I ate dinner together. That is to say, we sat at the same table, ate almost the same thing, and mumbled a word or two to each other between pages of our books. We do usually eat sitting at the table once every other week when we go to my friend SGs for dinner but tonight was a little different.

I picked up MAC at the library and we headed home. She did not have her homework done, nor did she have a signed homework sheet. I took away the TV for tonight because of the sheet and she had to start on her homework as soon as we got home.

The last part of her homework is the same homework we have had in language arts since she was in kindergarten: read. This year she is supposed to read 20 minutes each night. I had her reading while we heated dinner. It was supposed to be macaroni and cheese but when I went to put the cheese sauce on I found that it had been opened and left in the pantry. She ended up with some spicy Szechwan sauce instead and I found chili over pasta is pretty good.

We ate sitting at the same table but because she was reading I decided to read too. It was very nice sitting with her even if we didn't talk. Yep, dinner and a book, and the best dinner I've had in a month!