Sunday Supper

Tonight I went over to Jim's parents' house for dinner. It's something I used to do just about every Sunday, but I've definitely let it slide over the past few years, especially when Sister J moved back home. But his dad especially always makes me feel welcome, and I like going over there to eat for the company.

Jim's mom treated everyone with her famous mac n' cheese. This is the stuff Jim dreams about. If he got one last meal on earth, I think it would be his mom's mac n' cheese. And while I make him mac n' cheese pretty regularly, it's just not the same. Part of the problem is probably that I way cut back on the cheese and I use non-fat milk. The extra fat just gives it a little something. Besides the mac n' cheese, there were cheeseburgers, hot dogs, canned green beans, applesauce, and a veggie chicken burger for me.

Poor Big A didn't know what to do with all of the yummy offerings. He adores mac n' cheese and hot dogs, and recently he's begun to get into cheeseburgers. Okay, the kid just loves his cheese, period. He did pretty well for himself. I was impressed. Jim scooped him up two enormous servings of mac n' cheese, and Big A got through about 1.5 of them. Not too shabby.

For dessert, it was strawberry shortcake. Now, I adore strawberry shortcake, but I only like the real stuff, NOT the packaged cakes you buy from the grocery store. Those are scat. Unfortunately, that's what his family likes. So I ate the strawberries and whipped cream and I'm perfectly happy with that. Big A is the opposite of me. He macked on the cake and whipped cream and ate maybe 2 slices of strawberry.

Jim and I left his parents' house before Sister K's family did because we met up with M and M's R to see Iron Man. I know, we're way behind everyone else, but we just don't get out to the movies very often. And it was a good night to see it, since everybody else was watching Indiana Jones. To my surprise, I really enjoyed the movie. It was funny, full of action, and had some really good acting by both Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. M & R left right after the movie with barely a word to us, but M came over later and hung out with Jim for a guys' movie night.