“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” ~ Voltaire
Amen!
Today marks the four-month anniversary of this blog project. Four months of eating one meal together every day (except for one slip-up, for which we made amends the next day). Four memorable meals [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dinner’
Week 18: Four months down
Posted in dinner, family dinner, tagged breakfast, dinner, family dinner, Half the Sky on March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Week 17: Seven more days of deprivation
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged Africa, breakfast, bringing dinner back, Congo Restoration, dinner, family dinner, rock climbing, schedule, Whole Foods on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one’s spirits strong even when one’s body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.” — Nelson [...]
Week 12
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, dinner, family dinner, pancakes on January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.” — Robert Morley
There will be minimal cooking this week (why is cooking for three is so much less stressful than four?). And much of what is cooked will be prepared by Noah, who won the highly competitive Snarky Teenager of the [...]
The great grilled cheese standoff
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, dinner, pre-teen, Whole Foods on January 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“The food you buy is crap.” — Noah on this less-than-idyllic Sunday afternoon
Oy.
The lastest pre-teen battle started with a request to go to the mall this afternoon, catch a movie with friends, and hang out a bit. All without parents, he casually pitched, as if he was asking to go upstairs and read a book. [...]
Day 69: Uh-oh
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged dinner, family dinner on January 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“We didn’t have our family meal yesterday.” — the first sentence out of Noah’s mouth this morning
It’s true. I realized it as we pulled into our friends’ driveway to drop off Sawyer at a birthday sleepover last night.
How it happened is perfectly reasonable and absolutely absent-minded. I make our family calendar (here and on the [...]
Week 10
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged dinner, family dinner, holidays, Indo Pak Market, Longhorns, schedule on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.” — Annie Dillard
And now back to our regularly scheduled chaos.
Although I love a schedule, it’s been a lovely two weeks without one. [...]
Week Six
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged birthday, breakfast, cake, Christmas, dinner, epicurious, rock climbing on December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“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 all of [...]
Breaking Bread & Barriers
Posted in dinner, tagged dinner, immigrants, refugees, United Methodist Church on December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Hospitality is in our DNA.” — Rev. Kalaba Chali, pastor of the Lover’s Lane UMC’s Heart of Africa Fellowship
We went to a small but lovely event tonight. Breaking Bread & Barriers is a national movement with hopes of bringing immigrants and non-immigrants together to share a meal and to know each other. The idea [...]
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