Dinner Time is Family Time

Dinners should always be special. I do not mean to say that dinners should always be candlelit and the food should always be expensive. We may not have noticed it but dinner is the glue that holds the family together. Modern life is very busy and everyone is occupied with something. Breakfasts are always brisk because everyone is in a hurry because no one wants to be late. My family is young and small so it is only my husband who is always in a hurry during the mornings but I know that a year from now, our mornings would be spent hurrying (our little boy would be going to school next year) through the morning rush. Our lunch would not always be complete because there are time that my husband would decide to eat out or stay in the office to work, this is also true with other families. The parents have lunch in the work place and the children have it in school. So it leaves dinner as the only time when family members catch up with each other. Television must be turned off during dinner. Cellphones must be ignored. If it is dinner time it should be time to talk with family members. The little talks we have over dinner are actually what keep us together. We may take it for granted but family dinners keep family members close to each other. For me, family dinners are always special.