Enjoy the unstructured. You have to like someone who does not feel a need to complicate a situation he can't control and be a grown up about this and do so routinely. The person who recognizes this in him, well that's kinda' sweet too.
Its funny, a few years back my brothers and I found ourselves having dinner out with just our parents, plans for one of the rice ceremonies for one of the kids - we were doing the tasting - at the restaurant where my parents were going to host the event. The children and the spouses for different reasons weren't able to join us. We looked around and realized we did not remember the last time we all had dinner together before the weddings, the kids and my departure for the West Coast. The conversation took on a lighter comedic tone with the revival of inside jokes from childhood and a very sedate version of "ow" -"Quit-It", and "lines of death" from the family car trips ...
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Its funny, a few years back my brothers and I found ourselves having dinner out with just our parents, plans for one of the rice ceremonies for one of the kids - we were doing the tasting - at the restaurant where my parents were going to host the event. The children and the spouses for different reasons weren't able to join us. We looked around and realized we did not remember the last time we all had dinner together before the weddings, the kids and my departure for the West Coast. The conversation took on a lighter comedic tone with the revival of inside jokes from childhood and a very sedate version of "ow" -"Quit-It", and "lines of death" from the family car trips ...