The Family Dinner Table

I love setting the table. Finding the right table cloth (if needed), place mats, dishes, glasses and even creating theme dinners with my kids. (Something I have not done in a long time). There is something so profound about cooking a meal, sitting at the table with your family and having a conversation about the days events, or whatever you all feel like talking about. It is a peaceful way to end the day.

The family dinner table is symbolic, I think. It shows that family comes first and this table will hold so many memories in the future. It saddens me when I think of how many family dinners we have missed since I got divorced and it no longer seemed important. What I am realizing is that it is important. Family is the most important and I have a renewed sense of this importance. The family dinner table has become my new focus. I am spending insane amounts of time on Pinterest looking for the perfect table idea. There are some many styles, ideas and concepts surrounding tables that it is hard to choose just one.

I want one that is special to my family. I want one that will last and that possibly my grandchildren will sit at. It has to be perfect to me. Perhaps it something I will have to make, or perhaps I will find it somewhere. All I know is that in today's messed up world we need to make the family unit more important that it has been. We need to surround ourselves in ea
ch other and make our children know that time with them is important and that we need them too.

Good meal and your favorite people! 

We need to make this a priority. We need to. The dinner table is a time to reflect and have conversation. No cell phones, no television, no electronics what-so-ever, should be present. Just good ol' conversation and people. This has been on my mind a lot lately (Hence he need to write this blog). I just see so much awful stuff on the news and it breaks my heart. We don't know how much time we have with each other, but it is time that counts. We need to put family at the top of our priority list, not at the bottom. Our kids are growing up, and when they are gone I want them to know that they are loved and to have these precious memories (even though I am sure they are going to fight me on this) of us eating together and being together as a family. I feel so disconnected from my children lately, with all the each of us have going on and I want that to change.

It all starts with one of these and go from there!

Let's bring the fun back to dinner and eating. Make theme dinner nights, say grace, read a bible scripture, have fun with it. I am going to post this blog every Tuesday. Each blog I write on Tuesday (or at least the main one) will be in regards to the Family Dinner Table. New ideas, maybe new kid friendly recipes etc... I am also going to post this on my other blog Simply Chic, because I do believe this is important and God is telling me to put my family first and to come back to the table.

I know that it is unrealistic to make it an every night thing, but I am going to make it a priority and Sunday nights are going to be mandatory family dinner together night. I will work on making more nights, but this is a first start. Sundays in this family are going to be about family.