Sunday Dinner Family Time

[lynn]

~Now I know some of you are wondering, "Why did she post this under family frolic?" Stay with me just a second, and I will explain.

~Growing up, Sunday Dinner was a big deal for us. We nearly always went to Grandma's after morning worship. She'd have enough cooked to feed a small army; usually 2 kinds of meat, sides included veggies and starches, and a big dessert. Her table was set with her best dishes and tablecloth.

~Nowadays, most of us just don't go thru all that for 1 meal. I know I surely don't! But I have to wonder, wouldn't it be great if I could do this for my family? Of course, we would only be feeding 6 or 7 at the most, so I wouldn't have to cook as much as she did.

~We made such wonderful memories. Everyone was so relaxed....laughing....enjoying each other.

~Here's my question: do any of you have memories like this? And would you do it now for your family if you could?

[Admin]

What a wonderful memory Lynn. Dh grew up like that. Now we don't do it here but when the children were all home we made suppertime mandatory. Everyone was to gather and be there as an entire family.
We also had special dinners, but only on holidays. Sad now I wished I had made every Sunday special.
Great thread

[lucie]

Lynn, those are precious memories. We had an occasional sunday dinner with my grandparents and all her children and grandchildren. She would cook alot of food too, and it was fun. I remember once, my uncle sitting right beside me, wanted to buy my sweet chicken wings because they were so deliscous...lol...but I refused...I wanted to eat mine.

I'd like to start this, too. It could be sunday night for us, since Pierre works until 7 pm.

[braided-rug]

We went to Nanas on Sundays. I remember we both had a blanket to get wrapped in to go home, we did have good frosts there. There was the 4 of us and two of them, so six. Nana always did dessert, apple crumble, self-saucing chocolate pudding, trifle, sago pudding, that type of thing.

She mostly did lamb and vegetables, gravy.

We always had dh's parents over, until we asked them to come every second week and they got upset and that was that.

We always eat at the table at night, our eldest perfers to eat in his room, but he will have his own room to eat in in 2 weeks, and hopefully the next eldest will keep eating at the table.

We often used to go to a large family's house growing up for meals, and they would come to ours, they had 6 children. We also did the same for a young married couple, my brother and I were the only children there.

Since my parents are divorced, a wonder now if Dad enjoyed his Christmas' at Nana's or not. I have a photo of them on the back verandah.

We live in a community that still has that relaxed feel, it is precious, I feel we are still a little wound up, hope we lose that.

[daddys3chicks]

Well, we didn't eat at home or go to Grandma's, but we went out to a local cafeteria every Sunday after church with friends. Many times there were 5 or 6 families there. It was nice because we ate together and got to bond.

We used to do that too, but we just can't afford it now. So, we come home and make lunch and eat. It's still nice, but I really loved those Sunday lunches out!