Confessions of one sahm

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Confessions of one sahm
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Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm

I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my

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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 4:34pm
Who doesn't have family time anymore? Because dinner isn't necessarily at the same time at our house every night does not mean that we don't eat together as a family and have family time every day. We spend more than an hour together daily as a family and not all of it is spent at the dinner table.
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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 4:39pm

mmm...here it's waffles after church -- momma makes some mean waffles.... I even make PKA's amazing peanut butter waffles from time to time much to liza an dKelly's delight - it's a great post church breakfast!

We seem quite similar you and I -- we celebrate school events with ice cream and have big family breakfasts after church on sunday!

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 4:41pm

I have seen families like that on the news but I don't know any families personally who act like this. However, we don't really know many people with teenagers. Our house is pretty small anyway and we only have one computer so communicating like that would never happen here. My kids don't have cell phones and I have no plans to get them in the foreseeable future.

We eat together, read books together, and play board games together regularly. We also spend quite a bit of family time together outside the home too. The last two nights we were at a swim meet where we all hung out together and cheered together for each of the kids in our family as they swam. We then went out for dinner together afterward. Four hours of family time two nights in a row!

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 4:43pm
huh...there's NO family dinner time? Seems to me i've posted at least twice we have family meals 4-5 nights out of 7 during busy weeks and 7 out of 7 on non busy weeks -- then there are the family breakfasts we eat together 7 days a week -- I guess that we're exempt from this rule since clearly neither Liza or I are supposed to in fact BE eating -- family meals are clearly great unless you're fat in which case you're using food as the center of a gathering and are a hopeless shame as a parent LOL
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Registered: 03-26-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 5:39pm

Any night is good for pancakes for me. I just hate the clean up of the griddle as I do that-lol!!

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Registered: 03-26-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 5:41pm
My children are still young and the dynamics are different in our neighborhood NOW. Who knows what will happen years from now if more kids move in.
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Registered: 03-26-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 5:42pm
Excuse me? I HAVE dealt with it. I totally understand how different life is now. Do I think it is better in all ways? No. But I know that life is not like how it was when we were kids.
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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 5:45pm
When we were kids, we had dinner when my dad came home. He went to bed at 9pm because he got up so early so we weren't going to have dinner later.
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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 5:45pm

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I guess it's a minor detail to point out that I never stated that I wouldn't come home for dinner much in that post?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 5:47pm

So again....what do boys have to do with the issue?


<<It is something you eat, correct?>>


Yes, it's something you eat...but that doesn't answer the question if it's being consumed, how is it wasting?


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