Kids and resturants

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Registered: 09-15-2003
Kids and resturants
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Sun, 12-12-2004 - 11:57am

Hey all...


Did you have rules about resturants and babies? Or did you just take them everywhere?


Dh and I went to a VERY pricy resturant as a treat for ourselves a couple of weekends ago. All dressed up and having cocktails. Anyway, right next to us is a party with an 8 month old whining in a high chair. Mind you, our reservations were for 8 pm and they sat after we did.


This is incredibly rude, imo, for many reasons.


First of all, most 8 month olds are done by 8 o'clock. Secondly, there are just some resturants that are not meant for babies... a $75 dollar-a-plate resturant being one of them, imo. I do think that older

Meldi

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Registered: 07-20-2004
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 11:09am
Frankly, it would be nigh on miraculous if I noticed they even HAD a purse, let alone recognized the designer or could quote you the purchase price of it. If their purpose, as you claim, is so that someone else can stare and admire, their money is misspent on me. It's everything I can do to remember that *I'm* carrying a purse; the purses of others are their own problem to keep track of.

Karen

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sharp in some places,
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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 11:17am
We more than tithe. Splurges leave me conflicted because I really can't understand why it's OK for me to have ten pairs of shoes when other people can't afford the new shoes they need for work. Or why it's OK for me to have a bedroom we never use (we have that) and other people don't have a decent roof over their heads. Scripture does talk about the inequity in those situations and urges us to confront them.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 11:21am
I have a friend who works the 2-10 pm shift and her kids have always gone to bed around midnight and gotten up around 10 am. Her husband is a SAHD and homeschools, so the schedule has continued into the school years (her oldest is a friend of my 8 y/o).
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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 11:27am
I know, but Felicia lives in the Washington DC area, and that's an area where a lot of people of Asian, African and other backgrounds make their home. I have a hard time imagining that she doesn't know SOMEONE who didn't get married in a long white dress in a church!
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Registered: 10-18-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 11:44am

I guess for me, and maybe for others, I don't get conflicted because my having one dress instead of two isn't going to result in a family without shoes having shoes. My purchase of a 3 bd home instead of four isn't going to result in a homeless person having a home.


That said, I'm kind of in the middle of the road. I don't take the stance at the far left of the bell curve that one must be frugal in all ways and tithe, but I don't take the stance at the far right of the bell curve that you can't be seen in the same dress more than once. I'd venture to say I fall left of the average however.

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Registered: 11-12-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 11:44am

>> am unaware of a single post from Lois claiming that anyone ELSE should limit herself to one party dress,<<


You mean, besides the whole "conspicuous consumerism" subthread.

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Registered: 08-09-2004
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 12:17pm

>I have a hard time imagining that she doesn't know SOMEONE who didn't get married in a long white dress in a church!

I guess that is hard to imagine. I live in a big city. I know lots of people from different ethnic groups. I attended a Greek Orthodox wedding a few years ago.

I've also had friends who eloped. Not everyone gets married in a church building - some do it in a courthouse, outdoors, in their home, etc. etc.

Its really all about taking vows. Nothing else, really.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 12:43pm
I totally understand. Sending good thoughts your way for your dh's safety while there.
Dj

Dj

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 12:55pm

Its

Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: meldi
Wed, 12-15-2004 - 1:12pm
I went to a wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride wore red. Because red is good luck but white is a funeral color.

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