Rituals

This is the 4th time the wife and I have come to this lake house.  Our first two trips were sans children (and, don’t tell the kids, we are hoping the next one will be as well).  Since we have been here a few times, we now the layout of Spencer, IN (the town 10 miles down the road).  Also, we have a few rituals (or traditions maybe) that we do.  One of them is visiting the local Chinese take out (which we probably will do tonight).  Their sweet-n-sour chicken is very good.  Another ritual involves popcorn.

Jiffy Pop is something that is not allowed in our house back home for whatever reason but get the wife here to this location and it is a must.  We bought it on a whim the first time we were down here and just have made it a habit.  We set up the netbook / 20” monitor / external hard drive / speakers with subwoofer and watched on of the final episodes of Little House on the Prairie and enjoyed our Jiffy Pop.  We also bought a bag of Hershey’s Miniatures (not really a ritual, yet) and I offered the kids an option: 2 mini candy bars of their choosing (Hershey’s Chocolate, Hershey’s Special Dark, Krackle, of Mr. Goodbar) or 3 mini candy bars randomly chosen by me.  Everyone chose quantity over quality and we watched episode 19 of season 9.

Well, it is time for breakfast and to see what the day holds for us.

Jon