my dear friend, shanda,gave me a little something to ponder when asking in her blog,what are families eating/meal habits? that got me thinking of how our kitchen runs. so here you go....
what to make for meals????
it's the thorn in my side.
rye usually calls about 4, wondering what we're having for dinner. the answer is always the same....."i don't know, what are YOU cooking?" i know, i know, it's a sad, sad state of affairs when the husband is forced to choose the dinner menu. fyi....he loves to cook. i'm SSOOOO trying. last week however, i made a wonderful observation.....
i hate to cook because i never have all the right ingredients in my pantry!!! that's the honest truth. so rye and i went on monday night and bought all the 'staples'. could it be, i actually made dinner 2 nights in a row!???!!!!
so, here are the likkel household dinner time rules=
1.what you see is what you get. period. the short order cook is on vacation. oh ya, she's NEVER lived here.
2. you TRY what's on your plate. if you don't like it, you don't need to eat all of it but you do need to give it the 'old college try'!
3. we don't EVER criticize the cook. (it's just not everyone's gift to cook.) we are thankful that we have food. many go without. you criticize the cook, you'll be ONE of those people!!
4.no burping or other foul body sounds. if we hear it, you eat your dinner in the bathroom. no exceptions.
5.we sit with our food. not walk about the house with it. this is a hard one for the likkel boys.
6.you bring your dirty dishes to the sink. they've got this one down.they've been doing this since they have been walking. they have even been spotted doing it at their friends houses, or so i've been told. yea, they DO LISTEN! :)
7.we ALWAYS,ALWAYS thank God before putting a bit in our mouth!!! again, no exceptions. funny cuz when the boys sit down for a snack, they often ask if they 'need' to pray for this food? my answer is always "yes". there is no such thing as too much prayer.
there you have it. the 'in's and out's' of the likkel kitchen table, or the kitchen bar which is where we eat most our meals. i stand and deliver food, get drinks and refills, just like a good waitress should.
there you have it. i would LOVE to hear how it runs at your house!!!!
rumor has it people actually read this blog so i would have to ask....who ARE you and what's the BIG deal about leaving comments below?? just wondering! :)
7 comments :
I can relate to the "what's for dinner" question! My problem was feeling like everyone had to be pleased every night...(Dumb!)and that kept me from deciding til late in the day, and then it was too late to make something very good! I hated this quandary!! Now I just make something, and people eat it...Too bad it took me as long as it did to figure this out...I wish I had known your rules a long time ago! They're great!
Well I for one am an avid reader of your blog...hence ALL my comments. Secondly...your "kitchen rules" are EXACTLY as our kitchen runs! Should that suprise me? I find myself repeating these rules often, but they ARE GETTING it! Gotta love a smoothly run household, huh? Especially at dinner time!! Someday, we'll be sitting around our table and wondering where all the chaos went!?!
Traci--
I love your kitchen rules. They should like mine, although we haven't made "rules" yet. I like these. We'll be having a family discussion later on about it. :) Thanks for reading my blog and thinking about it. Wish you were here so I could have you over for dinner. I love to cook!
shanda
Trac--I can totally relate to you on this! It causes me no end of stress when I think about what's for dinner. Then I put it off until there's no time to make it so we pick something up instead.
HOWEVER, Jeff came up with a brilliant plan that sounds a little weird, but has worked for me.
We have a two-week meal schedule. I know exactly what's for dinner on any given night. Then I made master grocery list that has everything those two weeks worth of meals requires. Before I go to the store, I go over the list and highlight what I need to get.
I took it a step further and put breakfast and lunch on there as well as a daily chore - so I don't go cleaning the whole house everyday. I can just accomplish one task and know I'll get to the rest another day. I even have one day for special projects.
I know I sound like a total nerd, but I've been much happier since we started doing this. I tend to get really stressed over a perfectly clean house and my brain completely short circuits when I need to come up with a meal idea on the spot.
Sorry for writing a book here. I thought it might go along well with one of your New Years resolutions - getting organized!
Love you!
Yay for new posts! We LOVE your blog too and check it almost daily. So now that you've been cooking, what have you been making??? My (taya) personal favs of your rules was having to eat in the bathroom for burping and other crude noises at the dinner table. I laughed out loud l when i read it and know we'll have to borrow that rule for our boys one day. Love & miss you all!
Hey Traci..when you mention you update your blog on facebook I check it out. You are funny, and inspirational. Thanks for sharing your life. Life is better because we share it, huh? I just started the blogging thing, mainly for my family in Iowa, check it out if you dare:
2boys2girls2ofakind.blogspot.com
By the way, Iam guiltly of making two meals if not everyone likes the first and it is getting old...when those twins grow up they will eat everything...they'll just have to.:) Thanks for sharing.
Emily Bos
I totally love to read your blog it is so fun to see your boys grow they are so cute!! We have a rule at our house called the no thank you bite even if you don't want to eat the item you have to take one bite of it. Sometimes this leads to them deciding that they actually like it and they eat the entire helping. The other kitchen tip I have is to make things thats leftovers can be made into something else the second night. This way it tackles two nights of dinners and takes care of the leftovers as well.
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