I'm curious. What's dinner time like for you? Who cooks? Where do you eat?
Around our house, dinner time is the most chaotic time of day. Everyone is hungry, tired, wanting attention and cranky. I am usually in charge of dinner since we eat at 5ish and Shawn doesn't get home until 445 or so. I typically try to prep whatever I can during calmer times of the day so that it's easier to get on the table later. Despite it being chaotic, we always leave what we're busy with and head to the kitchen table as a family to eat together. We've done this ever since Shawn and I became a family of 2, pre-kids. It's a chance to unwind and connect as a family after doing our own thing throughout the day. This works for us but maybe not for others. I'd love to hear what your dinner routine is!
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11 comments:
We usually eat around 6. I cook. We eat the table, or if the hubs is home late and I have fed Roo we eat in front of the TV. It's ok for me usually. Roo is usually playing and have Pj's exersaucer in the kitchen so she's usually happy. Unfortunately I usually end up feeding Pj during dinner and then having my own food after everyone else has eaten. I do sit at the table while I feed her though.
Growing up I ate dinner with my parents almost every night. If I had a practice or something one of my parents ate with my brother at regular time and the other usually waited for me. Not till adulthood and being a teacher did I realize this is pretty unusual, sadly.
Most of the time Simon cooks, sometimes I cook, the rest of the time is a collaboration of the two of us. Most of the time we eat at the table or island together, other times (like last night!) we ate out on the deck, and if we have a special nacho/movie date night, we eat homemade nachos upstairs and watch a movie.
We eat at 5 also but we do it it without the man. When we were first married I waited fro him to get home and then we'd eat. Around 7:30. Then kids started coming and I quickly changed that. My kids always went to bed at 7 so we started eating at 5 and he started coming home earlier to see the kids. He still missed dinner though. So now we eat at 5 ish and he eats when he gets home and it's sad but that what we do.
It isn't so chaotic anymore because my kids are getting older but man, I do remember the chaos. Especially when there was a baby around. I look back and can't believe I pulled that off.
I ALWAYS cook. Unless the man loses a bet, which he's less inclined to take now because he NEVER wins..... and he knows it.
We usually have supper around 5:30. B usually cooks because he's a much better cook than I am, and he loves cooking. Plus, we bbq a lot in the summer and he's happy to man the grill. We always eat at the table together. Growing up my family always ate supper together (6 of us).
i do all the cooking... and i eat by myself pretty much every night... either at the island or on the couch. with fernando working nights there's nobody home to eat with me except the dogs. i don't usually eat dinner until 8 because i come home from work and have a 1.5-2 hour nap. then i make dinner for myself and fernando's dinner for the next night at work. its weird, but it works for us.
once i'm home with the baby we'll be able to have lunch together every day so that will be nice :)
We eat at 630 because I don't get home till 530. We all sit down and eat as a family too, although often the kids get something to snack on before dinner (especially Maggie).
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Your dinner time sounds a lot like ours. My family always sat down to eat together and I always found it odd when I'd go to friends houses and their parents wouldn't even cook, nevermind sit to eat as a family.
Cole and I always eat together at the table. When my dad and brother are around they join us and I make them turn the TV off which my brother hates.
I will definitely be doing "family dinners" every night with our children as well. I think it's an important time of the day... life happens and people are busy but it's one time where everyone comes together, even if it happens to be the only time in the day.
I cook, always, and we eat around 6. I try to prep as much as I can on the weekends during the school year, or during naps in the summer. 5 nights out of the week we all eat together, 2 nights a week I feed Logan and then we eat after he goes to bed. One night it's because Peter has a class and the other is just for the two of us to have some time together. I am a huge fan of family dinners at the table - growing up my family didn't do them, and I wish we had.
We eat around 5ish as well. I cook, unless it involves the grill, then hubby grills and I cook the side dishes.
We eat at the table, unless we are eating outside at the table, or once a month we'll let the kiddos have pizza and a movie in the living room.
Hubby rarely gets home late, so we always eat together. I was raised the same way, but he was not and he feels it is so important to eat together, as do I.
Dinner time is chaotic. I start it around 5:30-6, depending on what we are having. Then we eat at 7 (or when it is done), followed by bath and bed. Sean usually isn't home, so Alice and I do "picnics" at her table (unless Harry needs nursed).
I always cook, thought that doesn't mean DH can't cook, cause he's great. We eat at 8pm every night, because he doesn't get home til 6:45 every night and needs time to unwind.
I do as much prep as I can during the day. Dinner is on the couch in front of the TV, though soon we'll need to turn off the TV and move dinner to the table. Like you and D and Laura, dinner time is family time.
FWIW, DH and I do the dishes together, every night. It's our time together, just he and me. I wash, he dries, every night without fail, have for years.
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