September 25, 2006

Family Day

As Tammi of Tammi's World pointed out... today is Family Day. I was nearly remiss in posting on it.

Why?

Because... I guess... I just view what we do as a family as normal. I continue to live out the traditions my Mother and Father set before me. The same traditions my Better Half's parents set before him.

We're all about Family.

We sit down to eat every night as a family. There are days, of course, where we cannot, but those are few and far between. Even on nights like tonight where we have baseball, I try to have my husband come home just a wee bit early so we can all still sit at the table and eat together... even if its quickly.

The boys set the table. The TV is off.

It is time for us to regroup from our days... hear of the good and the bad. We go around the table and each child has to say one good thing that happened to them. We must be thankful for the good that happens and not dwell on the bad. Trust me, we hear the bad all the time, but at dinner, we try to focus on our blessings.

Tonight Bones asked me to keep the music on. I had music playing as I was cooking this evening, so with background music (Coldplay, heh!)... we had our family dinner and then we were off to baseball.

And nearly every Sunday night, we get together with my Better Half's family, who live nearby.

Sunday Dinner.

People seem surprised that we do this, nearly every Sunday.

I am equally surprised that they do not.

Family. I'm all about Family.

Posted by Boudicca at September 25, 2006 10:03 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Bones has good taste.

Maybe if I actually cooked dinner, it'd get the fire department over here and we could all sit at the table together.

Posted by: Sissy at September 25, 2006 10:40 PM

Thanks for participating Bou. It really is all about the family....

Posted by: Tammi at September 26, 2006 05:19 AM

when we have RTY, we sit at the table, tv is off.
when we don't, we sit on the couch, tv is on.

Posted by: wRitErsbLock at September 26, 2006 07:21 AM

I do this as well.

Posted by: Toluca Nole at September 26, 2006 04:48 PM

I did that growing up, and we plan to do that when we have a family, too.

Posted by: caltechgirl at September 26, 2006 09:50 PM