Sunday Dinner
By 34momma
@34momma (13882)
United States
May 20, 2007 6:42pm CST
when i was growing up, every Sunday started out with my Grandfather making a big breakfast. As he was serving breakfast, he was starting on dinner. Let me tell you, my Grandfather was a chef. When he cook everyone wanted to come over and eat. All my aunts, uncles, and cousins would come over. We would eat, laugh, and listen to my Grandfathers stories. Then the adults would start playing poker and us kids would stand around the table watching or sit under the table to pick up the change that fell.
Do you have Sunday dinners like that? Dinners where all the family gets together and enjoy good food and wonderful family company?
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@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
22 May 07
You know me momma. Our big dinner is always on Friday, but - no matter what day you can get a family together to share like this is a big day.
Getting a family to sit down together is a hard thing these days but if it can be done, it's so rewarding to have the opportunity to communicate with each other.
I think family dinners are the most awesome thing.
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
22 May 07
yes mama. fridays are my family nites now. but growing up it was sunday dinners at my grandparents house. i miss those simple times some times. we still have sunday dinners at my aunts house, but she is moving soon and that will be no more. the rest of my family don't follow my faith so friday's are my family, and my brother and his girls.
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@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
22 May 07
At least you will still have Friday. I know you will miss your family. Don't be sad.
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@awonderfullife (2893)
• United States
21 May 07
We always had big family dinners growing up. I come from a large family with tons of cousins, aunts and uncles in the area. Now everyone is older and has their own families. I still make a special dinenr for my family every Sunday. We may not have all the relatives over, but I still do it. When we go to my parents on a Sunday it's usually a big ta-do, though.
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
21 May 07
Wow, that sounds like a wonderful tradition you had, 34momma, well we never really had any tradition like that with my family, it is sad really. I believe that traditions are important, and we didn't do anything like that. Many Sundays my father would make breakfast, but nothing of what you speak such as having the all the relatives over, that would have been nice :D. Have a nice day.
Pablo
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@AcousticSoul (1309)
• United States
21 May 07
before my grandmother past away she would have big sunday dinners just like that...good food too cakes pies, chicken, what ever you name it she had it but after she past most of the family which was held together by her grace kind of vanished into thin air and went there own seperate ways... I hope one day I can give my family what my grandmother gave to me
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
22 May 07
oh please make sure you do. i am so proud of my family. that no matter what we have stuck together. after my grandparents passed away we have kept up sunday dinners. we go to each other's homes or to my aunts house. we are so close. i mean there are a couple that have moved away, but we still stay in touch. when i hear people say things like i don't see this family member or we are not the close it brakes my heart. i could not even picture my life without all of my family members being apart of my life. I am so very blessed.
you can take your grandmothers place and teach your children to make sure your family stays intouch.
@billionaire5 (1333)
• United States
21 May 07
No, I don't have a big family and we only get together on holidays and I don't choose to go, I don't like when my family come together it is like a big load of negative energy. And in my house unless I am in a cooking mood or cooking out (like I did today)that is my day of rest.
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