When I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s we always set the table and ate all our meals there. On special occasions we’d dress up the dining room table with white tablecloth, good dishes and silver. When I had my own family I followed the same tradition. We always had a roast on Sunday and always had meals at the table.
Things have changed since my girls grew up and my husband retired. I still make a roast on Sunday but we rarely eat at the table. We eat in front of the TV. I know we aren’t the only ones who do this. My TOPS group decided to challenge ourselves to make a meal fit for our favorite idol. It wasn’t really a stretch for me but after I took this picture, I took out meal into the family room and we ate it there.
This post was prompted by the daily prompt. You can read more here.
Where do you eat dinner?
Cathy Lynn Brooks 
Hi Cathy, thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate. Love your paintings and will return to check out more posts. Cheers! 🙂
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You’re welcome and thanks!
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My family traditions were similar, meals at the table and Sunday roasts. Now I rarely cook, mostly eat salads and eat alone. Those were the days, right?
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If I lived alone I would definitely eat salad and cold food. When my husband goes away that’s what I eat. Cooking meat is mostly for him.
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I love the plate charger and the candle sticks too. and I think you are right about how many folks enjoy meals with TV – or wait – seems that so many are dining with their phones (which are mini computers) – oh and did you grow up in the 60s and 80s – not the 70s?? ha jk
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I JUST noticed that typo a minute ago. Isn’t it crazy how you can read something several times and not see these mistakes?
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yes – I see so many typos in my posts and go back to fix them and still miss them – lol –
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We all need editors. The human eye skips over these mistakes.
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yes – and sometimes just coming back after a while can help – but even then we can miss it – and I just found two “and” words in a post of mine – ha!
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Living on my own I always eat in front of the TV. Growing up we ate around the table. Unfortunately it was not a good time and was the scene for a huge amount of fraught interactions and arguments and my mother’s emotional abuse. I couldn’t stand it. I find occasions I have to eat in similar settings very stressful today. I feel like I’m back in that situation when I have to eat around a table with other family members at their home now.
But it can be a good thing of course. When I visited my friend we ate together, my friend her husband and her two daughters, and it was a happy time. I hope that if I had a family we’d be able to make meals a happy time to value with each other as you did with your family.
Xx
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Emotions can and do run high at times. Eating in front of the TV is what I would definitely do if I lived alone.
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Very niice blog you have here
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Thank you!
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