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I too think you're doing great, but I have one question. Why have you chosen to eat dinner separately from them? Perhaps you have good reasons, but I would have thought that eating the evening meal together as a family would have been a positive thing.
I think I alreaqdy covered that but simplistically, their diet is far different from ours and while they "need" to be fed at a reasonably early hour, we have our evening meal rather late. Cooking two entirely different meals at the same time in one kitchen would be problematic. So, too, would be an early dinner time for us.
The other part of the equation is that our dinner time is an opportunity to have some space, peace and quiet and privacy; all of which are somewhat lacking during most of the day.
Common meal times were the rule, not the exception, when my wife and I were raising our respective children. The boy's mother generally eats with them.
I think I alreaqdy covered that but simplistically, their diet is far different from ours and while they "need" to be fed at a reasonably early hour, we have our evening meal rather late. Cooking two entirely different meals at the same time in one kitchen would be problematic. So, too, would be an early dinner time for us.
The other part of the equation is that our dinner time is an opportunity to have some space, peace and quiet and privacy; all of which are somewhat lacking during most of the day.
Common meal times were the rule, not the exception, when my wife and I were raising our respective children. The boy's mother generally eats with them.
Well, we agree on that point. Nothing quite so off-putting as watching children with a mouth full of half-eaten food yammering about nothing in particular. LOL
Well, we agree on that point. Nothing quite so off-putting as watching children with a mouth full of half-eaten food yammering about nothing in particular. LOL
20yrsinBranson
Agreed but that was never a problem with my children. They were taught proper dining etiquette beginning at an early and appropriate age.
Cowboys gives me a flashback. I worked my way through my first few years of college on a 150,000 acre cattle ranch as a ranch hand aka: cowboy. Loved it!
Can't use real arrows, huh?
My husband worked his way through school as a bartender during the school year and as a worker on a Ford Motor Company assembly line in the summer (he was a member of the UAW). I somehow can't see my husband on a horse being a cowboy - but I reckon what you did was a lot more fun that what he was doing. I used to ride when I was younger - but I wasn't very good. After about my third concussion after being thrown off a horse - I gave up. The last time I was on a horse was when we went to the Pyramids in Egypt about 20 years ago - and almost landed on my head again
When we get up to your part of the world - and it is a question of when - not if - because of the new Crystal Bridges Art Museum in Bentonville Arkansas - I will encourage my husband to tell you the story of the 3 Al's who worked on the assembly line with him. It's a really fun story.
I have to give you an A+ for how you've handled this unexpected and difficult event in your life. Walking the narrow line between setting down reasonable rules - and being a stuck in the mud tyrant (it's my way or the highway).
May 2012 be a very happy and healthy year for you and family . Robyn
P.S. For those of you who care to have traditional New Year's fare in the south - collards and Hoppin' John (for health and good luck) - I have some simple recipes I'd be delighted to share.
May 2012 be a very happy and healthy year for you and family . Robyn
P.S. For those of you who care to have traditional New Year's fare in the south - collards and Hoppin' John (for health and good luck) - I have some simple recipes I'd be delighted to share.
Please do share the recipes. I love collards (shredded and steamed with real butter) but don't know what hoppin' john is---cornmeal?
Hoppin' John: black-eyed peas and rice cooked with bacon or ham hock. In the South, New Year is not New Year without Hoppin' John. It's THE lucky dish.
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My husband worked his way through school as a bartender during the school year and as a worker on a Ford Motor Company assembly line in the summer (he was a member of the UAW). I somehow can't see my husband on a horse being a cowboy - but I reckon what you did was a lot more fun that what he was doing. I used to ride when I was younger - but I wasn't very good. After about my third concussion after being thrown off a horse - I gave up. The last time I was on a horse was when we went to the Pyramids in Egypt about 20 years ago - and almost landed on my head again
When we get up to your part of the world - and it is a question of when - not if - because of the new Crystal Bridges Art Museum in Bentonville Arkansas - I will encourage my husband to tell you the story of the 3 Al's who worked on the assembly line with him. It's a really fun story.
I have to give you an A+ for how you've handled this unexpected and difficult event in your life. Walking the narrow line between setting down reasonable rules - and being a stuck in the mud tyrant (it's my way or the highway).
May 2012 be a very happy and healthy year for you and family . Robyn
P.S. For those of you who care to have traditional New Year's fare in the south - collards and Hoppin' John (for health and good luck) - I have some simple recipes I'd be delighted to share.
When, not if, sounds good. If you or your husband have any interest, whatsoever, in guns, especially from an historical perspective, there's another museum/private collection in NW Arkansas that includes such treasures as guns used by Jesse and Frank James, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, and other "wonders like an original Bowie knife, Geronimo's scalp belt (complete with scalps), the war bonnet worn by Chief Sitting Bull when he put Custer in his [final] place, Clyde Barrow's hat and much, much more.
Hoppin' John's alway on our menu this time of year. My wife's mother was a native Ozarker.
We're only a bit over 70 miles from Bentonville but here in the hill country that translates to about an hour and 45 minutes on our narrow, windy country roads.
Thanks for the grade, Robyn. Blessings on your house for the coming year!
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Hey Curm
I'm a nut for anything Old West, where would this museum you speak of be?
Do you have any idea how the US Marshall Museum in Fort Smith is coming along?
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. Robyn