I designated tonight as Family Dinner Night without letting anyone know. Maybe I was being a bit passive-aggressive with the kids (I had already clued Kent in), but I wanted to somehow make a point to them with this. How and what it is, I'm not to sure yet. At any rate, I have been cooking all day for Family Dinner Night and I have to say I'm pretty excited about it. It's the one night that I know I can have my whole family at one meal, all together. Maybe I'm being sentimental, but I do look forward to these moments.

Besides making a good meat sauce for tonight's lasagna, I also hung up a clothes line in the back yard. Then I did some raking and cleaning out the corners where the dead leaves had piled up for so long, there is now a dark rich soil underneath. Picking a spot for a vegetable garden might be difficult because there isn't one specific place in the yard that gets a direct hit of sunlight for most of the day. I could have a lot of fun with a non-vegetable garden, though. There are so many different levels to our yard and so many landscaping possibilities, I am almost just as excited about that. Lots of fun to be had at any rate.