Oh, that is what the top of my dining room table looks like.

Since way before we went on vacation the dining room table has been cluttered with a bunch of crap. (We added vacation stuff to it as well.) We have been eating breakfast at the kitchen island and every other meal out in the great room in front of the t.v. Seriously, so white trash. Yesterday afternoon I put stroganoff in the slow cooker and I was determined that we would eat dinner at the dining room table. I sifted and organized and cajoled Simon into putting his stuff away and what do ya know? I finally saw the top of the table. We had dinner there in the dining room with cloth napkins and everything. We felt so fancy. Ellie was all excited. Philip did some serious teenager complaining about it. (White trash behavior doesn't bother him one little bit.) So here is a picture of my dining room table taken for posterity.