The Dinner Table

Glass Half Full has asked us to share our dinner table. This poor, old 11 year old table has been in one eat-in-kitchen or another since our first apartment in 1996. My parents bought it for us when we were engaged from Belks, I think. It has been very versatile and weathered 8 moves!

My kitchen is decorated in citrus colors, so there is always a different yellow, orange or lime green accessory in the middle of our table. We eat breakfast, lunch and dinner here with very few exceptions. The rare nights that Daddy is not here for dinner, we have been known on occassion to have a picnic in the family room and watch a movie. The kids love picnics!

There have been too many theological questions asked here to count, mostly by my 6 year old. This table is where their Daddy and I read them their devotion each day, typically at breakfast while they consume cereal or a granola bar. Almost every day here for lunch we have sandwiches, fruit, carrot sticks and some type of yogurt or crackers or chips. My older son and I have been known to replace the sandwich with other more appealing options (hot dogs for him, salads for me). This table seats us for 6 dinners a week. I usually cook a hot meal with a meat, veggie, fruit and sometimes a bread. And once a week we eat out. (We have just started to really tackle our eating out habit and not cheat on the eating out once a week rule!) I make dessert once a week and it usually takes 2 days to consume the entire thing. The rest of the week we dream of what will be served the next week and usually settle for a popsicle or Nilla wafer.

This is our dinner table. It brings us some of the livliest, deepest, funniest conversations from our days together. Thanks for the idea, Glass Half Full!