I’ve been thinking a lot about family meals this week, and how that will look for everyone in whatever our new future will look like. If there’s been at least one thing good to come from all of this, it’s that families are probably spending more time together around the dinner table than the previous couple of decades.
Family time has always been important to me. Even when Michael was alive, I protected it fiercely. We were never the family running to three different birthday parties on a Saturday afternoon. I was very thankful Isabella never found an interest in soccer, little league, or dance, though we tried them all at various times. Catering our family life to a full schedule of kids’ activities at the sacrifice of family time for walks in the park, meals around the dinner table or snuggling in for movie night never made sense to me.
