Dinner Bell

I am a good cook.....I don't especially care to cook, but I can. I am a bad planner, so if I don't plan ahead, I'm never really sure what is for dinner. We also lead very busy lives....just last week we were not home one night during the entire week. We ate out, at games, skipped meals, ordered pizza, whatever. Tonight was the first night I have had time to cook. I figured the kids would be thrilled. But alas, I was wrong. Morgan didn't want to come home after managing boys basketball practice....evidently going to the skate park with friends and learning to skateboard was way more appealing. Since Ashley was the one who went to get her from pratice, waited for her and then came home without her (during which time she could have finished her essay), she was a little put out. I made one of her favorite meals, chicken and dumplings. We ate....in silence. No thanks mom, no it's good mom....just silence. Just another reason for me to decide I don't need to cook..right??