I’ve never been good at decision making.  I especially have a hard time with non fact-based questions that have a single, definitive answer: what’s your favorite ride at Disney World?  What would you choose for your last meal?  What would the ideal birthday party consist of?

It’s not so much that I have a hard time coming up with answers, it’s that narrowing down my answers is next to impossible.

We have this super awesome set of conversational cards (check out Table Topics if you haven’t already).  The whole point of them is to spark a conversation – which isn’t a difficult task, considering there are six (and often times more) seats occupied around our table.  The thing is, though, that most of the questions are those creative ones that force you to choose one thing:  the best, the only, your favorite, etc.

My least favorite?  Those “describe ________ in one word” types.  Really?  One word?  C’mon.  Who can do that?

I’ll tell you who.

Kennedy.

She gets ‘em spot on every time.

Case in point?  One night we had a table topic card that required each of us to describe our family in one word.

The thought of such a monumental task almost makes me break into hives right now.

I mean, there’s the positive side:  fun-loving.  Oh wait.  That’s two words.  See?  I’m messing up already.    Okay.  One word answers from here on out.  Cross my heart.

There’s the  not-so-positive: exhausting.  Then there’s the obvious: large.  There’s the technical: blended.  And the quirky: Disneyphiles.  Playful, close, friendly, and snarky, also work. Of course, those words say nothing of our being discerning, energetic and messy.

Clearly, wrapping things up in one tidy little word doesn’t come easy to me.

Kennedy nailed it though.

Her word?

Loud.

Yes.  We are that.  Perhaps above all else.

Loud.

Not sure how great a legacy that is.  But it is what it is.

So what about you?  Can you sum up the entire existence of your family in but one word?  And if so, which word is it?