Hello friends, it's my pleasure to participate in this week's featured content [FAMILY DINNER]. Let me take you down memory lane.
In my family of 4 consisting of My father, my mother, my little brother and myself, eating together as a family during meals is something we value so much. It opens a mild atmosphere for a heart to heart conversation between us. I can still remember those days, the memories are still fresh. After helping mummy at the kitchen till the food is done, I will rush to the cupboard and select the appropriate plates for serving the food. I give the plates to mummy to dish the food out. Mummy makes very delicious meals that even the neighbors can attest to from the aroma cooking out of the kitchen. As the only daughter, I will still sets the table and serve every member of my family his or her own portion of the food. After serving them, my daddy will say the opening prayer and we will all start enjoying our meals. As we eat, we will praise mummy for her nice cooking skills and of course thank me for helping out.
I noticed that those moments always open way for meaningful communications between us. Because everyone is free from work or any other activity and is relaxed, sitting comfortably on the table, and ready to talk. I know of some friends then, that each member of their family sort out themselves when it comes to meals. But that method of dinner was never seen in my family. We eat the same meals and at the same time.
Now as a wife and mother, I didn't fail to bring in that same method of dinning with family into my home. When it was only I and my husband, we eat on the same plate and at the same time whether on the dining table, on the floor or on our marital bed. "Sounds somehow right? ", yes but those times were so sweet and enjoyable that we learnt never to eat without each other. It grew our love for each other and our bond became stronger.
My husband and I continued that way till we gave birth to our 3 kids. Even as a family of 5 now we still have our family dinner together. It has given us a good opportunity to observe our children closely. We also want to use this meduim to teach them the benefits of eating together as a family. In most families, siblings don't eat in one plate it causes quarrel between them but that is not going to be the case with my children. We are carefully inculcating in them a lifestyle that they will want to carry on to our generations to come.
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This style of family union and bonding together is something we will always uphold in my family.