Making Dinner Matter
In a recent video experiment a group of adults were asked the question, “If you could have dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?” Then their children were asked the same question. You might just be surprised by the answers given here:
If you haven’t taken the time in a while to sit down and eat dinner with your children or grandchildren as a family, tonight might be a really good time to do that. While this is a commercial filmed in Australia, the responses are genuine and this bit of insight could have come from anywhere in the world because some things are universal. You are the rock stars/celebrities in your children’s world. Believe it or not here is no one whose attention and affirmation is more important to them than yours is. And no time better to connect than at the dinner table.
Not sure what to make for dinner? Here are a few ideas from our Two Chums archives.
Pork Chops and Cauliflower Puree
Crockpot Sweet Hawaiian Chicken
Whether you make one of these favorites or one of your own, or you simply bring dinner in, take time to sit down with this you love and share some good food and some good conversation and some good hearty laughter while you are at it.
This is what brings real love, joy and abundance to each of our lives!
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I would *love* to eat dinner with my parents one more time. We never really ate together as a family when they were alive – Mommy and Daddy would eat in their big king bed in front of the news…and I would be relegated to the basement to watch I Love Lucy reruns. Not a lot of conversation happening in that scenario!
Funny how you can live a certain way and not think anything of it…til you grow up and see how others live and then you look back on your life and think, whoa, that was kinda weird.
Anyway, would be so great to get to talk to them now as a grown-up, I have questions about their lives I will probably never get answered – like WHY DID YOU TELL ME I WAS 1/16TH CHEROKEE INDIAN WHEN I WAS NOT?!?! Ha. That haunts me to this day. When I found out we were NOT part Indian (at the age of like 37), I felt like I’d just found out I’d been adopted! My “history” was not my history at all!!! Anyway, yeah. Would love to share a meal with my parents and have a conversation with them One. More. Time.
I wish you could do that Bettye. I would love to sit at a table and have one more meal with them too. More specifically I would love to sit at Nanner’s table with all of us there just one more time…so many memories 🙂
And yes…it would be nice to get the Cherokee mystery solved once and for all!