Maddie Moment of the Week - Friday, November 18, 2005

"The Santa Fe Omelette"

I hope you all enjoyed the first installment of the Maddie Moment of the Week, and if anyone did not receive the first moment, i have attached it on this email. Again, please feel free to send this to anyone who loves Maddie, and therefore would love the Maddie Moment of the week. Now on to the omelette.

This moment also takes place at the beach, Easter Sunday, 2005. The Lively family and I had attempted to attend Church to honor our Lord but it was way too packed. Not knowing what to do, Maddie offered her suggestion:

"LET'S GO TO BAYSIDE SKILLET WOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOOAOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Almost slamming the car into a telephone pole from the fire-alarm pitched Maddie exclamation, Mr. Lively agrees to take us there.

So we all sit down at the Skillet and mull over the menu. Now, if anyone hasn’t been there before, you can basically get two things from the Skillet...an omelette of your choice (they have a wide variety), or an order of crepes that are delicious. But, you have to be careful, because the orders are huge. So big, it is like they dont want you to finish.

After ordering drinks, the waitress comes over to see if we are ready. She looks at Maddie.

"I'M NOT READY YET WOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOOAOAOAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

So the waitress moves on to the rest of us, and we all get omelettes and crepes, with normal ingredients i.e. sausage, bacon, onions, peppers for the omelettes and strawberries and other fruit with the crepes. Then the waitress returns to Maddie.

"WELL I CAN'T DECIDE BETWEEN THE SEAFOOD OMLETTE WITH CRAB, TUNA AND OCTOPUS OR THE SANTA FE OMLETTE WITH 23 VEGETABLES, CHICKEN, SALSA, CHILI, AND 55 HERBS AND SPICES WOWOAOAOAOAOAOAOOAOAOA!!!!!!!!!!!"

Knowing a gem was about to appear, we all start chuckling. Maddie, getting flustered and nervous exclaims...

"I'LL HAVE THE SANTA FE OMLETTE WOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOOA!!!!!!!"

Now, at this point the entire family, myself included, partake in the usual Maddie moment questions:

"Kate, why couldn’t you just get something normal?"
"Kate, one bite of that and you’ll go straight to the barrel house"
"Kate, are you crying?"
"Kate, both of those are the most disgusting items on the menu"
"Why are you crying?"
"Kate, are you even going to eat that?"
"Kate, did you just toot?"

Maddie, always armed with replies to such questions states:

"YOU ALL RUSHED ME INTO ORDERING (note: Maddie ordered last). AND MY OMLETTE WILL BE THE BEST ONE HERE YOU WILL SEE. YOU ALL THINK YOU ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY, BUT YOUR NOT. SHUT UP BRAD, DAD, JOE. HOW COME I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT TRIES SOMETHING DIFFERENT? YOU ALL ARE BORING WOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOOAOAOAOAOAO!!!!!!!!!!"

10 minutes later, we all get our food. As we ravenously chow down our selections (also, in no way is this Moment claiming the food is bad there, it is really good), we suddenly notice that Maddie has disappeared. As we look over at her seat, all we see is 55 pounds of egg, cheese, hot sauce, chili, peppers, onions, jalapenos, chicken, beef, tomatoes, corn, cilantro, beans and chives. As Maddie poked her head out from behind the towering mound, she gave us the "Maddie Message" (see definition below). We knew she meant business.

Maddie Message - N; (From the Madison Louise Library of Terms)
- a cold, icing stare from Maddie Lou, which can either follow or precede a hilarious Maddie quote, stumble, or moment - sending the message to shut up now, or else.
ex: "After Mr. Lively made the loudest farting noise ever when Maddie bent over on the basketball court to retrieve the baby's toy, he received the worst Maddie Message of the year."

After receiving the Message, we all quietly eat our breakfast while avoiding to look at each other for fear of bursting out laughing. A few minutes go by, and then we hear a scream from Harry. Not to our surprise, when Maddie had pierced the omelette with her machete, a fountain of grease and spices had nailed Harry in the face. Maddie is stunned. We can't hold it any longer, we burst out laughing.

Maddie, now crying, proclaims "I'M SORRY OK, BUT THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!! YOU RUSHED ME!!! THEY DIDNT COOK THE CHICKEN RIGHT!!!! SHUT UP WOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOOA!!!!!!!!"

Calmly, Mr. Lively takes out the menu and says "Kate, let's take a look at the ingredients"

10 minutes later, after Mr. Lively had read the two pages worth of ingredients, the check has come and been paid for. He then says:

"Kate, i don’t think the chicken was the problem. You ordered the only thing on the menu with 10 paragraphs of ingredients, what did you expect?"

After Maddie refused to talk and touch the omelette, Joe, Jack and I lifted the mound and took it to the kitchen since they were short staffed that day and there weren’t enough people to carry it. After Maddie refused to eat anything else, it was time to leave. Another Maddie Moment in the books. I hope you all enjoyed this week's installment of the "Maddie Moment of the Week". Stay tuned for next Friday’s edition.