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Have a Coffee Table Picnic

December 29, 2009

Sometimes, it’s okay to break the rules with your kids.

On the Sunday after Christmas, Grace took a long nap at 4 in the afternoon. That meant she slept until 6, and she was not ready to go to sleep at 8. This part was totally my fault.

We are flexible parents. We are strict when it’s called for, but the rest of the time, not so much.

Many issues are just not worth fighting over, including bedtime when you’ve allowed the child to take a very late nap. We were decidedly not going to force her to lie in her bed when she wasn’t tired. It didn’t make any sense.

So the three of us watched The Sound of Music. As it was coming on at 7, I wondered aloud if we should eat dinner. Grace said she was hungry, and Joe said he could eat, so we set up the coffee table with a living room picnic.

The fare? Leftover appetizers from Christmas Day – Asiago cheese dip, olive cream cheese dip, buffalo chicken dip, kielbasa dip, and lots of Club crackers. And pop.

The whole meal was deliciously wrong, and it was delightful.

We aren’t creating any habits.

We don’t normally eat dinner in the living room.

We don’t usually watch tv while we’re eating.

We usually sit at the table in the dining room and eat dinner together.

But we didn’t that day.

Want to know something?

It worked for us, and we all enjoyed it.

Happily submitted to Works for Me Wednesday

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Moomettes said:

That sounds like so much fun Tara!! Any chance you have the kielbasa dip posted somewhere! I've never had it before but my family luvs kielbasa!

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# 30 December 2009 at 10:52 am

FeelsLikeHomeBlog (author) said:

I wish I did! It's a premade dip that my FIL buys and brings to our house (every time they visit). He knows that Grace and I both love it. I've never made anything that came close to it. Sorry!

# 30 December 2009 at 11:00 am

Robyn's Online World said:

Sounds like fun! It's nice to do different things like this every once in a while. I'm amazed at our odd things that Taylor remembers sometimes. I have never seen the Sound of Music myself either.

# 30 December 2009 at 4:58 pm

FeelsLikeHomeBlog (author) said:

Robyn – It is the perfect chick flick, total romantic comedy. I loved it. You need to rent it or borrow it from the library or something. It's that good.