Winter Blahs Become Family Fun
By:Sarah
Zanger
After
spending another dreary winter Sunday with not much
to do I decided our family needed an exciting activity.
I thought I needed a break from planning dinner
so I'd give myself a break and give them an activity.
I told my children that they were in charge of dinner
tonight. They'd each need to prepare one part of
the meal of their choice. Three of my four children
were home and quite excited about the prospect of
dinner plans. Even my sixteen year old son, who
only gets excited about playing hockey was in to
it. My husband wasn't as keen on the idea.
Each
of my children started their dinner plans. They
ran to the computer to locate good recipes. I sent
them to Simply Delicious at Dateable.com
where they found some good recipes. They pulled
out cookbooks and ran to find their supplies. Of
course, what I thought would be a treat for me turned
into a bit of extra work but watching everyone scurrying
around the kitchen was fun.
My husband didn't realize I meant
business and when he returned to the kitchen I told
him if he wanted dinner he too needed to bring something
to the meal. He's not much of a cook so he took
out our dusty juicemaker and went to work. He used
up a good amount of of old fruit and resurrected
the use of the juicemaker.
What started out as a boring Sunday
became a wonderful way for our family to spend quality
time together. The kids learned some new recipes
and we're back to using our juicemaker!!
Sarah
Zanger is a freelance writer and mother of four.
She is an editor at Dateable.com.
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