Then I Thought of Home

You know how much I admire Ma Ingalls, Caroline Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie. It didn't matter what happened, no matter how bad the deal or how stressed out Pa was she held her tongue. When she saw what happened or after Pa, told her what happened she would  nod her head or she would just sit quiet. I know that is exactly what she should have done. Her example is great. Pa didn't need her telling him how it would be okay, he didn't need her telling him what he did wrong or what he could do different next time. He needed for her to be still. She needed to give him time to deal with it within himself. He needed time to think and to process. We had a situation like this just last week and it's the very reason I know I'm no Ma Ingalls. I had been mowing over at Lost River, I was almost done and Mark said he would take over. He accidently hit a gas line. He got down and looked at the line. It scared me to death. I started saying, ...

You know I love the dinner table. You know I'm all about cooking and eating. And you know every time I get the chance I am going to promote that. But hopefully you also know.... I know where we are today. I know life if different now, and as nice as the kitchen table and the family all  around sounds...it's hard to get it done. Soooo....we find ourselves running through the drive-thru on the way  home from practice or work. Or we pull a frozen pizza out of the freezer and pop it in the oven. That's all okay. You see one way a family is built is around a  meal, not the food. The two are not the same. The time is more important than the menu. If you have to eat in the car...then eat in the car but make sure the radio is off, don't let the kids be watching a movie, don't be on your phone. Eat and talk. You can have the dinner table atmosphere in the car. Don't think that a number one off the fast food menu on a Tuesday or a frozen piz...