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Week nine

“My favorite animal is steak.” — Fran Lebowitz We have entered new territory. When I started this blog, committing with my family to eat at least one meal a day together for 53 weeks, the only caveat was that we’d have to change the rules when one of us was out of town. Noah is [...]

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“I do like Christmas on the whole. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill.  But it is clumsier every year. ” ~ E.M. Forster The week before Christmas week is always insane. Farrah Fawcett insane; not really hurting anybody but enough to keep you on your toes. So much to do before [...]

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“I can still taste it.” — Noah, eyes closed, with the last Kahlua Kiss having just dissolved in his mouth Sunday night Five successful weeks — 35 days — of eating together every day. We’re totally into the groove. It’s really not that difficult most days. Here’s what this week looks like: Sunday: We had [...]

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“This family dinner thing is killing me!” — Sawyer, as we sat down to eat at 7:50 pm on Sunday (he’d declared the bacon an appetizer about 7) And so month two of feeding my family, feeding Africa, feeding my soul begins. It has been a wonderful — and busy — month. I can’t imagine [...]

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“A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.” — Georges Bernanos I seriously thought this would be easy. I read as I was considering this project that the average American family eats together 4.8 dinners together each week (for full disclosure, I can’t find that statistic right now; but [...]

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mohandas Gandhi The weekend was completely filled with the Global Village Market, a two-day event I help organize annually at our church. It’s an inspiring alternative holiday market where people can buy fair-trade goods or “gifts” — like a pig for Heifer [...]

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“I love butter. It tastes good by itself.” — Sawyer at breakfast this morning. Early morning breakfast together as a family since Noah will be gone on an overnight campout tonight: done. Pancakes and hot chocolate with homemade whipped cream will apparently get anybody out of bed (thanks, Clyde, for the ‘cakes). I can’t remember [...]

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