This morning I took the children to a pancake feed at our church. Finals are a week away and so the Mr. was at school. After eating, I sat for awhile and conversed with other women. They were older than me and their children are older than mine. I don't remember everything we talked about, but I remember one line: "... Most nights every one is going separate directions, so we only have about 1 family dinner each week."
I thought about my teenage years and yes, we were so busy, we rarely sat down for dinner. Right now, our children are small, and at 5 or 5:30 most nights of the week, you can find the 4 of us, seated around the table. We talk, we eat ... I think, as the years pass, our children will be so busy we may not have family dinner every night of the week, but maybe we can try for more than 1. I don't dwell on what will happen then.
Right now, I'm enjoying the view and I hope you do, too:
(At dinner's end)
It starts with 9th grade and high school sports :( We also had sit down dinners every night, up until they started high school. Enjoy your time together now.
ReplyDeleteI love your pictures! Your gonna have to teach me how to take good ones!
ReplyDeleteFamily dinners are the best. I will hang on to them as long as I can, and I won't give them up without a fight :)