A Typical Weekend @ 6 Providence

It was the same as most nights.

The lights were all but out; dancing flames of candles lit the beautifully decorated, color-coordinated – down to the cloth napkins - dinner table. My brother searched through albums of CDs before finally settling on Van Morrison, turning up to volume so his romantic lyrics echoed throughout the house. My father was back in the kitchen, finishing dinner, sizzling onions through a smoke cloud of mouth-watering aromas. My mother and I sat in the living room, still sipping our white wine, wrapping up the bits of French cheese left over from our appertifs. For the Michel’s, this is what family meals should always be like.

Dinner, as usual, was delicious. Meat and potatoes… gourmet style, paired with bottles of smooth red wine. We talked for hours about everything as the bottles just kept emptying themselves into our stomachs.

We took our coffee and dessert in the living room again, opening more wine and talking for hours. Suddenly we realized that we were hammered, and that it was 2am.

I smiled.

In this family, this is what we do best: enjoy life.
Always exceptional company, interesting conversation, amazing wine…

Of course, today finds me a bit different. Both Alex and I are too hung over to enjoy our traditional Sunday breakfast of pancakes, sausage, bacon and fresh squeezed orange juice. Instead we’re restricted to laying out motionlessly watching hours and hours of Lord of the Rings. But even this is fun…

Life’s too short to live any other way.