Family Home Evening - with Friends?

Year number one of marriage we watched all of Lyle's box sets of DVDs (and no, we did not watch all of Dave Chappelle together, nor will we ever, someday soon he will have to donate those to the trash). We did watch his Seinfeld, Arrested Development, and Faulty Towers DVD seasons. Once we moved to New York, I said "My turn!" So we started from square one with my Friends DVD collection (please note there are 10 total). I have all but the last one, which I will purchase when necessary to COMPLETE my collection. Because Lyle's schedule is so jam packed, we threw out the "no tv during dinner rule" I initiated in the marriage and reserved it for a later time - a time when we actually own a kitchen table to eat at and not a little coffee table instead. We do get the luxury of eating dinner together every night which doubles as Lyle's down time. Here is where we watch our 20 minutes of Friends each day. Lyle gets to watch TV while eating dinner and Ciara gets to help Lyle understand all the one liner jokes she cracks in reference to a Friends episode. We've got a win-win situation here.

In the recent past we watched "the one where no one's ready" episode, which is a CLASSIC by the way. Basically Ross arrives at the girls apartment ready to go to an important event for his museum job and no one is ready to go. They need to be ready in 20 minutes to arrive at the function on time (which is very pertinent) and things keep happening one after another to make them NOT GET READY. Ross yells at Rachel for being too picky about what she's wearing, demands she puts ANYTHING on, and Rachel instead puts on sweats to show Ross she's not going to his event. Ross proceeds to apologize, saying his function won't matter if she's not there, they make up, and supposedly leave to get to the function on time.

Picture this. Mid Ross/Rachel argument, Lyle pauses the DVD and says, "Let's have a little Family Home Evening about Friends right now." I laugh and soon realize he is serious. So we talk about how Rachel and Ross acted, how they should have acted, and how a Lyle and Ciara incident would be VERY similar in real life. Then we talked about what Lyle and Ciara would do if that situation occured in their home and how they would fix it. This conversation maybe lasted two minutes, but it truly cracked me up. The whole rest of the episode Lyle kept calling Rachel, Ciara. It was a very productive way to prevent such an event like that in our future. Let's see if it works! On a similar note, last month we finished a book we had been reading together. I would recommend this book to ANYONE. If you have a relationship with a spouse, a friend, a family member, ANYTHING, you should read this book. It is very helpful in showing love and receiving love from others. For our Family Home Evenings we would read a chapter out of this once or twice a month and now we're onto a new book, but we will reference this book forever (especially once we have kiddos someday).