Bad Combo: Late Dinner and Bath Night

What's worse than a tired dad? A hungry dad. What's worse than a hungry dad, a hungry dad who still has to bath the kids. Over the years my wife and I have developed a pretty good system in the evenings. She cooks while I play with the kids. She clears the dishes while I bath the kids. Then we get them ready for bed together. I tell a story while she feeds the baby a bottle. To finish off, one of us reads to the girls and puts them to bed while the other does the same for our son. Our son is older, so he gets longer books. The parent not reading to him starts on the dishes. Then we finish cleaning up shop together and try to relax or get to other personal projects until we go to bed. It's a pretty packed schedule, so getting behind really delays our final clean up and shortens our personal time. My wife has set a goal for herself, of which I am the principle beneficiary, to learn new and healthier recipes. Dinners were wonderful before, but both of us enjoy these new recipes. To make this short, the recipe took longer than it advertised, and dinner was late. I was also late from work and was too lazy to make myself a good lunch. So I came home extra hungry. I found myself trying very hard to be supportive of my wife's goal, but I kept losing my temper with the kids. I decided to break from our system and bathed the kids before dinner. There was a risk that they would get dirty again during dinner, but I decided that a little dirt would be better than losing my temper stressing over diminishing personal time at the end of the night.