The Contingency Plan

Last night was our second family night. It was my first turn to organise the evening so I planned for us to have dinner at a delightful Lebanese restaurant downtown and made a flourless chocolate cake and ice cream for desert to have back at home (it’s now winter so Luc and I like to get home before it gets toooo cold, mainly for Hugo’s sake).

But before we left for the restaurant I received a call from Natasha, who was running late, so we all sat down for some coffee instead. Mum and Harry were deep into an update on the latest tiff with Dad (who’s trying to swivel Harry out of a chunk of land they jointly own that recently quadrupled in value), so we didn’t quite mind the delay.

A moment later though, Luc answered a stressed and panicked call from one of his staff members. A critical network security breach had taken place and required his immediate attention so he had to leave us. Luc didn’t know how long it would take so we planned to go ahead with him as soon as Tash arrived.

Fast forward another thirty minutes and Tash rang Mum (not having the balls to give me the excuse) as she didn’t have enough money for petrol and needed to work on some assignments. By this point we were all too lazy to go out so I called the restaurant to apologise.

So despite my best intentions the night was almost exactly like the last, minus two family members. Harry came over after work, Mum cooked (delicious soup) and we all played with Hugo while watching a Moloko concert on DVD. We then had dessert, Harry fell asleep on the couch and Mum put Hugo to bed.

*Sigh*