After Aya and I got married, we always said that we would eat dinner and spend Friday nights together. After a while I got tired of hearing the same thing:
Miles: Where do you want to go?
Aya: I don’t care, where do you want to go?”
or
Miles": Where do you want to go?
Aya: I don’t care, where ever.
Miles: Okay, Taco Bell.
Aya: No, I don’t want that.
Miles": McDonalds.
Aya: No I don’t want that either.”
Miles: Well if you said wherever, then what is wrong with Taco Bell or McDonalds?
So I instituted a new rule, Aya and I would alternate who picks, pays and drives to dinner. The other person couldn’t complain about the dinner choice. We did take into consideration what we ate for lunch that day or for dinner the past few nights, as Aya doesn’t like to eat the same thing two nights in a row.
After Jack was born, we started going out on Friday nights again and we made Friday, family dinner nights. Now we alternate between Aya, Jack, Stacy and I. Stacy doesn’t really pick, since she neither eats or talks but it is a place holder so Jack doesn’t get to use her pick. Jack loves to go to Souplantation but Aya and I hate going there.
Lately Jack has started to pick different places to eat, like The Counter, Cafe Del Rey and Tony P’s. I don’t what it is but Jack really loves to eat at a restaurant. If we try to order in on Friday and not go out, Jack gets upset and doesn’t like it. He tries to convince us that we should go out and get something to eat. It’s not like he gets a lot of different things as the kids menu is pretty standard, mac-n-cheese, spaghetti, pizza, chicken nuggets. For the most part he only gets spaghetti and pizza but nevertheless he loves to go out.
I think Jack just like it when someone serves him his meal but then Aya and I serve him his meals at home. I think this kid is just like his mom and wants to go out and be treated like a king…and sadly I am an enabler and continue to take him out to restaurants.
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