{"id":118,"date":"2013-01-27T07:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T12:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2016-01-21T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T15:35:38","slug":"making-dinner-family-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/making-dinner-family-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Dinner Family Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eating as a family, especially for dinner, is so important to me.\u00a0 I sit at the table with my girls for 3 meals a day.\u00a0 When hubby is home he eats with us too.\u00a0 No TV, no music, no phones, no toys, nothing but US. Having that time to talk about our day or discuss world issues (you\u2019d be amazed with the things my girls come up with) is irreplaceable.\u00a0 Next year Honeybun’s\u00a0kindergarten will start at 7:20 and with a new baby in the mix I\u2019m sure family breakfasts will go out the window.\u00a0 I also know someday the kids will be bigger and busier and family dinners will become less frequent so I\u2019m trying to monopolize now!<\/p>\n

We started family dinners, literally, from day one.\u00a0 The day we brought Honeybun\u00a0home from the hospital she sat at the table with us for dinner.\u00a0 At the time we ate at a pub height table so a regular high chair wouldn\u2019t have worked.\u00a0 I also didn\u2019t want to give up any precious space so we opted for a Space Saver High Chair that belted to one of our regular table chairs.\u00a0 It\u2019s also nice because it reclines so even the tiniest new baby can sit in it.\u00a0 She got used to sitting at the table with me every meal (when she was awake).\u00a0 By the time she was ready for solid foods she was used to the chair and sitting for a meal so it was a super easy transition.\"DSC00302\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The first few weeks with Sugarplum were a bit harder.\u00a0 We were living in Dublin when she was born but chose to come back to Florida for the birth and spent the first 5 weeks of her life living at my Aunt and Uncle\u2019s house.\u00a0 We brought over what we could for those first few weeks but did not have everything, including the highchair.\u00a0 We did, however, even in those early days sit her as close to us as possible while we ate.\u00a0 We put her on the floor next to us or in her car seat.\u00a0 If we had room at the table we would even strap her in the car seat and put her at the table, securely wedged so she couldn\u2019t fall (still probably not the safest idea but it was the only way to keep her from screaming).\u00a0 Unfortunately even when we returned to Dublin she was never a good sitter (we later discovered she had some physical issues that were making her uncomfortable).\u00a0 I think being at the table with us, especially big sister, helped her learn quicker how to use utensils and drink from a cup.\u00a0 She still likes to get up and run around during dinner sometimes but the point is still that we all sit down with our food and we have family time.\"clara<\/p>\n

I fully intend to continue this family time with our new baby also.\u00a0 We still have the space saver high chair which we\u2019ve been storing for the past year and I can\u2019t wait to strap it to an extra chair, load up the baby and cozy him\/her up to the dinner table.\u00a0 Who knows how many more years of family dinners we\u2019ll have and I don\u2019t want to miss a single one!<\/p>\n

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Eating as a family, especially for dinner, is so important to me.\u00a0 I sit at the table with my girls for 3 meals a day.\u00a0 When hubby is home he eats with us too.\u00a0 No TV, no music, no phones, no toys, nothing but US. Having that time to talk about our day or discuss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life","tag-family-meals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}