Wrestling with Expectations
In recent years I have come to realize that I have great expectations for dinner time. When we were in Grand Rapids and I was working I would look forward to coming home and having dinner with my family so if it didn't go the way I wanted it to I would be very disappointed. Most days I would come home to everyone yelling and/or in very bad moods. Now that I'm not working outside the home I find I still have pretty high expectations for how dinner time should go. We have four kids. The older two are 11 and 8 and sometimes they don't like what I make so they end up making top ramen or a hot dog for themselves. The next one is 3 and she tends to snack a lot during the day so when she sits down to eat, she's not sitting for long. She will take a bite, yell about how hot it is, demand you blow on it, get down and run laps for a while and then maybe take another bite. The youngest is just coming up on two months and around dinner time she is usu...