Dinner Conversation
Last night was family dinner night. Well, okay, we try to make every night family dinner night – but Sharon gets home so late on weeknights that they’re always “most of the family” dinner nights. Saturdays don’t really count since we either go out or bring food in. Sundays are the real, old-fashioned, homemade family dinner night.
And as usual, when we get all of us together, Ellie’s comments begin early. This time it was right after I brought dinner to the table.
“Eww…something stinks! I don’t think it’s the dinner, though. It’s just a weird smell from the meatballs!”
Umm, good. I’m glad it’s not dinner then.
“This water is yummy, Dad!” (that was actually Matthew)
Thanks, Matthew. At this point I got a pen and paper because I knew I was going to want to save these gems.
“Hey Dad, what are you writing?”
I’m just writing funny things you say.
“HEY! I want you to write down ‘etherd’ because it’s one of the funny things we say!”
Um, yeah. That’s a pretty funny word alright. “Etherd” is kind of like a nice version of the f-word – it’s their universal adjective AND noun, and I have no idea where it came from. But if you don’t know what to say, say “etherd.” Anyhow, we made it the rest of the way through dinner without too many more comments. Then came the topper – usually it’s Ellie who says this, but this time it was Matthew. We were sitting around just finishing up, and out comes:
“I’m ALMOST going to get sick.”
Okay, you guys can be excused.
Haha. Etherd. I am going to have to remember that!