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Week 25: Mashed potatoes, New York City & Sarah’s kitchen

Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged , , , , , , , on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”  ~ Ogden Nash (American poet) Harsh, but dead on. Especially this past Saturday night. Noah was gone for a week on a school adventure trip, rafting down a river in Big Bend [...]

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Week nine

Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged , , on December 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »

“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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Day 48 — It almost falls apart

Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged , , 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 [...]

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I could get used to this

Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged , , , , , , on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” — Thomas Jefferson What a wonderful week it has been. We’ve had an unprecedented four days without organized sports. Afternoon after afternoon of little to do but make a fire in the living [...]

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