I can't decide to be proud... or ... or.... well, let's put it this way, I always sore that if there was one thing (among the many one things I swore) I would do with my kids during their childhood that I didn't get, it was that we'd eat dinner together as a family. When I was a kid, my father was emeshed in the racquetball scene... I think, at one point, he was like the world champion for all of the military branches combined or something... I remember it being like in the paper and a big deal kinda thing.... I can remember maybe only a handful of family dinners together ... I truly believe that family dinners are one of the best way to have really special family conversations...

My daughter made me a Mother's Day Card at school... The outside is pink construction paper (her 2nd favorite color). She's used marker to, as my son so eloquently puts it, "scribble scrabble" the outside... on the inside cover there is a nice picture that *almost* looks like *maybe*, just *maybe* she actually drew a face on a circle to make a face (and it's all in purple, her 1st favorite color)... you know, it kinda looks like it but it's 3 year old artwork and you just can't be sure if it's an accident that those dots are in the circle or not....

The inside... has one line:

My mommy likes to go to yoga when I eat dinner.