Our Kids

It involves a table, some chairs, and showing up.

A few years ago, one of our kids came home from a friend's house with a question that I wasn't expecting.

She said, "Dad, why do we always eat dinner together? Nobody else does that." And when she asked me, I just kind of blinked at her because to me, eating dinner together wasn't a decision.

It was just what you did.

Everybody sits.

Everybody eats.

But as our kids got older and started spending more time at friends' houses, they started noticing something that we hadn't noticed ourselves.

They'd come home and tell us about dinner at so-and-so's house.