Let's Talk About Making Dinner - Again.

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Remember when I said that making dinner wasn’t my favorite?
Well, we have a solution.

I decided to make it fun.
Not “try a new recipe each week” kind of fun. Or “pull the name of a country out of a hat and make a meal from there” kind of fun. Or “eat with weird kitchen utensils!” Or “only make foods that are red” one day and “tomorrow make only green!”
None of those are very fun for me.

Yahtzee is my childhood family favorite game.
It was sitting on the counter one day during dinner.
Boring “regular stuff like chicken and rice and a veg” kind of dinner.

Coleman said, “Let’s play Yahtzee.”
My first reaction was to say, “After dinner.”
After boring chicken dinner. Boring to make chicken dinner. Boring to eat chicken dinner. Boring chicken dinner.

Wait! I thought.
Maybe this is my chance! My chance to pull us out of the back and white movie that dinner has become. A chance for color and rainbows and joyful dice rolling!
A chance to make dinner fun!

Now we play Yahtzee during dinner.
And we play during breakfast on remote learning days.
Ok, sometimes even during lunch – when the dice are hot. 🔥

I’m good at getting the top bonus points.
Coleman rolls a Yahtzee almost every game. He’s the Yahtzee King.
We take a bite of dinner as we watch the dice spin and toss. That final die turns and lands on exactly the same number of spots that are already face-up on four other dice. Our hands go in the air. Yahtzee!
One game we rolled two Yahtzees each! It was five-dice magic.

I have somewhat of a menu plan for the week now.
Because, of course, I want to be ready for Yahtzee.
I even find myself experiencing the strange and unfamiliar feeling of looking forward to dinner time.

Dinner is fun. I like it.
Yahtzee, anyone? 💙✊🏻