The ~SPECIAL~ chair

So, 12 years ago when we bought our kitchen table (which we actually still like!) It came with 4 chairs, little did we know at the time, that we would someday be a family of 5. Yup...one chair short of a family dinner (oh there's a few other puns I could do, but I am not going there, right now.) All this was fine up until last year when we finally got rid of the highchair and we realized we couldn't all sit at the table. Well, we have a beautiful decorative chair that my sister-in-law hand painted for us for a housewarming present (Thanks Mona!). Mostly this chair sat in the corner and looked pretty, occasionally it was the time out chair but we never really used it for dinnertime. I am sure you know how this story goes, no one wanted to sit in the "different' chair, so each night there was a battle, pushing, shoving and jockeying to get to the "regular" chairs. Being a "brilliant" Mom and trying to make everyone happy, I decided that the misfit chair would from now on be know as the ~SPECIAL~ chair and that whoever sat in the ~SPECIAL~ chair would get to talk first about the best and worst part of their day (our mealtime talk). Stop me if you know where this is going....they fight over who's going to get to sit in the special chair. Of course the rule is we rotate, but I can barely remember to brush, floss and keigel every morning, I am really supposed to remember who sat where last night??? So yup, in my moment of brilliance I changed the rules of the game from three kids fighting over two chairs (i.e one unhappy kid) to three kids fighting over one chair (i.e. two unhappy kids).

EACH AND EVERY MEAL!!


~~~~~~ Way to go Me!