Happy Hour?

More like un-happy hour in our house everyday. I have started dreading that crazy time of day in the hour or two before dinner. This is the time of day when my children seem possessed with spirits that suddenly destroy the house, whine, fight, jump off of furniture, yell, and throw tantrums. I also feel possessed with demonic spirits. Trying to cook dinner (not my favorite activity especially when I haven't been to the grocery store in a week), trying to clean up (can't stand to sit down to dinner surrounded by messy chaos), and trying to keep my little monkeys from going too wild.....it makes me want to pull my hair out and run screaming from my house!

I have noticed that this time of day is harder during the winter months. It gets darker earlier so we can't play outside as long we would like. It's also harder on the nights we are trying to wait for Adam to come home for dinner....trying to keep dinner warm so we can sit down together, trying to keep the kids from not filling up on snacks before dinner, etc.

I have a dream about my children sitting quietly at the kitchen table, patiently waiting for dinner while drawing or reading books to each other.I want to hold on to this dream about happy hour but perhaps I just need to really make use of "happy hour" and start drinking something stronger than ice water!