Our Dinner Table

Changing gears...

I love our dinner table!

Not the piece of furniture - the events that take place there.

Actually not our dinner table, we really don't eat in the dining room - other than for the annual New Years Family Dinner...Christmas something or another...and if we have some crazy special thing...we don't eat at our dinner table nor do we eat in the dining room.

We eat in the "breakfast nook" at our breakfast nook table.

Almost without fail, we have to bring in an extra chair or 2 to accommodate the number of people eating.  Sometimes it's 3...4...5 or even 6 of us.

But, we eat dinner - as a family together almost every night.

With our 2 oldest kids having college, careers & other things of their own going on, sometimes it's me, Shawn & Taylor - but no matter, we eat dinner together.

People who study "families who eat dinner together", say that it's one of the most important things you can do as a family.

I'm not sure where it is on the "one of the most important things" - but for us it's a really important part of our home.

It always starts with a prayer of thanks...offered by anyone of us...eventually over a few dinners, it will have included each of us.

It always includes catching up on each others day...life...other...

It always includes some humor...something that connects us on a regular basis.

It always includes us - being a family...together.

I love our dinner table.

I love us sitting together...talking...connecting...sharing...

It's something that definitely keeps us closer together.

Whether it's talking to a 10 year old about something pretty easy to solve.

Or, a 19 year old talking about what he's going to do with his life.

Or, a 22 year old figuring out her wedding plans.

Or, talking to Shawn about something in our life.

I love our dinner table.

If you haven't sat down as a family for dinner recently, I sincerely encourage you to slow down...come together...pray...laugh...connect...and even more.

They say it's important.

I agree.

peace

b