I must be crazy!

What was I thinking?  Taking the boys out to dinner, alone?  Ugh!  I should have known.

Yesterday when I picked Christian from school, he presented me with his Free Pizza coupon for Pizza Hut.  He earns things like this often because he reads so much.  They have to read either two chapter books or ten easy books per month.  Well, Christian often reads three chapter books per week!  So needless to say, he got a coupon for a free pizza.  Of course that meant he wanted to go that night.  I decided that since the coupon is only good for one month we should just do it and get it over and done and that way I couldn't forget about it.  I knew that it would be an experience but I was feeling optimistic.  After we picked Christian up from Sylvan we went to Pizza Hut.  We stood there waiting to get seated for maybe 6 minutes which by the way is more like 15 when you have a diaper bag loaded down with everyones toys and video games, juice cups and snacks in one arm and a twenty pound baby in the other...and the two big boys can't keep their hands off of each other and Ayden thinks he's a race car running in circles.  Yeah, I know.

So we finally get seated, thank goodness where no other patrons were seated.  I let Ayden and Christian sit next to each other because that is where they both sat to begin with.  Big mistake!  Ayden was on the open end of the booth, another big mistake.  He climbed all over the seat, squished Christian, climbed under the table, got out of the booth and ran into the booth next to us (which was empty).  All the while Christian is not helping the situation by hitting Ayden and egging him on.  I had had enough by that point and we didn't even order yet!  So I moved Ayden over next to me where I could be on top of his behavior.  He did fine after that.

Once we got our food, everything was fine.  The boys ate their pizzas and I had some pasta.  I couldn't wait to get out of there and back home.  Too bad you can't use those coupons for take out.