While we've been progressively cutting down on our meat consumption over the last year, sticking with vegetarian meals for at least 3-4 nights a week, the concept of Meatless Mondays is still relatively new to my parents, especially my dad. Mondays happen to be the day they come over and help watch the kids while I run errands and do some work. It's been that way for years now, and it's a consistent routine we all look forward to each week, most especially my parents I think. They stay on for dinner each week, and my mom and I usually gather in the kitchen around 5 o'clock and cook a meal together, while my dad tries to manage watching over 3 kids. It sounds quite serene I'm sure, but my mom and I are often passing off Hayden back and forth since papa doesn't have quite the same soothing touch of either of us, while we take turns telling my dad not to get the older two kids so riled up. In other words, its chaos, but for some reason we seem to enjoy it and keep coming back for more and

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