“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 ‘family 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 15
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged family dinner, schedule on February 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“I need a wife.” — Me
This Monday and Tuesday are likely the busiest days of my entire year. In addition to normal mom duties and upcoming deadlines that need to be helped along, I have a 15,000-word report due on Tuesday and a two-day board meeting for Congo Restoration I need to attend.
Pray for me.
Sunday: [...]
Week 14
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged breakfast, diet, family dinner, rock climbing, Whole Foods on February 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.” — John Kenneth Galbraith (author of The Affluent Society)
And so, a month tardy by American standards, I have started Diet No. 2,765. Or thereabouts. The focus is the Kelly Challenge, a monthlong challenge Noah’s rock climbing team does annually. No sugar, [...]
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 [...]
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 eight
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged blueberry muffins, Christmas, Crete, family dinner, moussaka, Waxahachie on December 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” — Frederick Buechner, American writer and theologian
There was no gladness in my house this morning, deep or otherwise.
Three nights of too little sleep does two very grumpy children make. In the first hour and a half [...]
Day 48 — It almost falls apart
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged family, family dinner, overscheduled on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Shit.” — Me, out loud as I realized at 1:30 pm that we’d forgotten to eat breakfast together, weren’t together for lunch and would be in different parts of the city for dinner
But no worries, we’re pulling it out in the end.
Today is a perfect example of why families don’t eat together. This morning one [...]
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