Hey mighty mighty letting it all hang out!
Dinner got off to a rocky start tonight. By rocky you can pretty much guarantee that we were all perfectly content except Evan (my man on the edge. I have taken to describing him as "edgy". I think it fits, don't you?) who was doing his best to agitate someone (Josh) else, while I was doing my best not blow my top (and scream in front of my (judging) parents). Luckily there was peace in sight tonight! Tonight thanks to a table topics (I can not tell you how much my kids love the table topics) tangent (the best part of table topics is how far we can go with a single idea) we went around the dinner table saying something nice about the family member to our left. It was all very loving, very hallmark card, very aaaawww, and rather dry and predictable until we got to Evan who stood up and performed a whole original song and dance about how great his brother Matt is. You can imagine the accolades of praise he received after his original vocals and choreography and Evan, being one who loves the spotlight as much as any one else who loves the spotlight then grabbed some nearby paper and penned a funny, touching , loving song for every family member at the table. When he turned to me, to present my original song of specialness after a lively and amusing over the top introduction, Evan broke into his very special rendition of Brick House complete with his very Chippendale dancer type moves. It was funny, but not as good as Matt's song of love and appreciation, but then Evan sang a real made up just for me song and my favorite line in his song was "You are a pearl among pebbles". Evan said he thought this one up all by himself (along with "You are a shark among fish", which didn't exactly strike the same chord) so don't even think of telling me that you have heard it before. But you know that the next time Evan pretends to load and shoot a semi automatic weapon into his brother's head, I am going to summon up all that good loving pearl among pebbles energy and try to react (without freaking) accordingly.
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