At the end of a long day, when you're thinking
about getting dinner ready and getting everybody off to various appointments and lessons, creating mathematical moments is probably the farthest thing from your mind.
Not exact matches
With the launch of the new Best of Bridge Sunday Suppers book a couple weeks ago, I've been talking a lot on TV, radio and various interviews
about the idea (and significance) of Sunday supper — of
getting as many people as I can around the table for
dinner to regroup and reconnect and
get ready for the week.
This post is brought to you by my being super busy
getting a meal
ready for the thanksgiving
dinner I'm attending tonight (and am SO EXCITED
about).
There are time when all you have is
about 20 - 30 minutes to
get meal
ready on that
dinner table.
Quite often, questions
about puberty can come out of the blue and surprise parents at what seems to be the worst time (preparing
dinner or
getting everyone
ready in the morning).
We try to put our boys to bed
about an hour after
dinner, which means we finish eating, play for half an hour, and then start
getting ready.
We also have the excitement thrown in there of sporting games that sometimes start
about five minutes after he
gets home from work, so I have to be able to manage
getting dinner ready on time.
Trystan wakes somewhere between 7 and 9 generally, gerber cereal with fruit (whole container) and a 6oz bottle, play time, nap around 11/12 for an hr / hr n a half, 1 pm lunch a veggie w / mixed grains and a 6oz bottle, then play time, snack of a gerber mixed fruit or fruit «smoothie», and a 4oz bottle, play until grandma and grandpa
get home then nap around 6 for
about an hour,
dinner gerber meat and veggie, play until 8/830,
get ready for bed 8oz cereal bottle, then read a book and snuggle watching our nightly shows until Trystan falls asleep around 930/10 sometimes earlier depending how the day went.
Itʼs Monday morning, you are
getting yourself
ready for work, walking the dog, making breakfast, packing lunches, thinking
about what to make for
dinner that evening, as well as having at least 10 other thoughts running through your mind when one of your kids wakes up with a terrible cold.
Think
about your own afternoon and early evening: Maybe you leave work, sit in traffic, listen to the news or make a phone call, pick up the kids, make
dinner, help with homework, answer emails, clean up from
dinner,
get ready to start it all over again tomorrow, then fall into bed exhausted.
So you load this slow cooker chickpea curry into the machine, turn it on to high or low depending on how long you'll be out for, and while you're carrying
about your business it's doing it's thing, slowly but surely, until
dinner time rolls around and you've
got a satisfying vegetarian curry all
ready to go.
My husband and I were
getting ready for a date night this weekend (we need to be reminded of what
dinner without a toddler is like every once in awhile) and
got to talking
about how clothing for men is so much, for lack of a better word, easier than it is for women.
In
getting ready for a
dinner party, I think it's good to think
about our house when inviting others in.