Dinner and a Movie

It's Thursday. Our school work is done for the day.  We are sitting in the living room watching an unknown movie from the library, you know, that place where we normally borrow books.  We are using tortilla chips to scoop up chili and salsa while vegging out to this slightly cool but mostly cliche kid movie with yet another environmental message.  We are being tortured by Jimmy Buffet music. The cats are licking up drips of fallen chili. Stuffed kids are snuggling under blankets after retreating from the make-shift dinner table usually used as the coffee table. If only I could figure out how to light the pilot so that we could complete this happy scene with the hiss of a roaring gas fire, then I could certify this picturesque.