My Favorite Night of the Week

I know this might sound awful, but Tuesday nights are my favorite. Mainly because we get to watch NCIS and The Mentalist, the two greatest shows ever!!!

But last night was especially good because we had another great night of family time. Once again Alexis and I made dinner together. However I decided that not only were we going to have spaghetti, but that I was going to make little meatballs out of the turkey meat I had set out. Just to let you know I have no idea how to make meatballs, so last night was an experimentation time. I figured how different could it be from making meatloaf, and ran with it. Well Alexis freaked when she saw that I was dipping these little balls of raw meat into an egg mixture, and she freaked again when she grabbed a handful of meat and there were crackers in them. So yeah I think the meatballs were great they just need a little more seasoning than I used and maybe some chopped up onions (or maybe I could use onion powder). Steven said they weren't as hard as he was expecting them to be. I don't know what that means, but he liked them. I can deal with constructive criticism and make adjustments the next time I make them. I also think next time I'm going to see if cooking them in the oven would work better than frying them in a pan. Who knows? I just went with it.

We also did something new last night. Not only did we eat at the table, but we put the meatballs and the spaghetti sauce on the table so all you had to do was dip them out right there. I don't know why but that was a big deal to me. Alexis is also very cute because she went and found some little tea light candles and placed them on the table and had them burning during dinner.

I really like having this good family time. Another thing that helps with the evenings is that when we're finished with dinner I have been cleaning up the kitchen immediately, so we don't have a huge mess the next day to clean up. You don't know how big of a load that takes off.

Then, of course, you have the three of us huddled up on our couch watching our two TV shows and just enjoying being around each other. Which here lately has a bit of a trial because Alexis has hit a pre-teen rebellion stage and can be quite a pain sometimes.

Last night was another great night for the Price/Mouser family!