Sentences with phrase «do around dinner time»

My little family was hungry, as they are wont to do around dinner time.

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Our entire days are structured around meal times with breakfast, lunch, and dinner often used as reference points for what we do and when.

Isn't it funny / scary / horrifying how the number of children around directly effects the time it takes to get dinner done??

I do make sheet pan dinners from time to time, but I realize now that they mostly revolve around chicken, for instance these delicious Turmeric Chicken Legs with a Honey Garlic Glaze or Roasted Chicken Thighs with Potatoes and Vegetables or these Sticky Roasted Chicken Legs with Green Onions and Mango Chutney.

The other evening, around dinner time, I did something I swore I would never do: I barbecued.

The pasta in the photos did get eaten (thanks to my husband), but when dinner time came around I opted to pour this sauce atop some grilled polenta slices and Field Roast links, which was fantastic.

We all are so ridiculously overextended these days with never - ending to do lists and full - time commitments to way too many things that when dinner rolls around it is basically just one more task to check off before we move on to the next thing.

The fact that some time during the weekend after Thanksgiving, when I am turkey - ed out, but still have some cranberry sauce hanging around, dinner is done...

For someone who works full time and doesn't get home until dinner time, or even for the stay - at - home mom who's day is consumed with running around after kids, shuttling them to and from school and sports, a slow cooker is a saving grace.

It's basically a game of «how many times can we run around mom's feet while she's cooking before she falls into a hot pot of sauce and / or gets overwhelmed by the chaos and throws a feminist rant at her partner about how she shouldn't have to cook dinner just because she's a woman (even though he totally offers to cook and she really just wants to do it).»

I totally remember doing this as a kid, fanning the smoke alarm with dish towels around dinner time.

And since experts say school - age children roughly need about 9 to 11 hours of sleep — which means they need to go to bed around 8 or 9 o'clock, depending on what time they need to get up — that doesn't leave much time for anything besides dinner, homework and reading one short book chapter together.

Every time you try to get something done around the house — dinner, laundry, sweeping or just generally tidying — your toddler is there, trying to get in on the action.

And a child who doesn't feel hungry when it's time for an afternoon snack knows it's OK to skip it because dinner is just around the corner.

Many couples Iâ $ ™ ve counseled fall into a rut of using food as their primary way of spending time together — going out to dinner, or for ice cream, ordering pizza, making brunchâ $ ¦ Try mixing things up and plan activities that don't revolve around food (go to a play, art gallery or museum, or do something active, like hiking, biking, or indoor rock climbing), or involve healthy eating (visit a farmerâ $ ™ s market instead of a food court).

The study, which included 8,550 4 - year - olds from around the United States, found that children who ate dinner with their families more than five times a week, slept for at least 10.5 hours a night, and watched less two hours or less of TV a day were 40 % less likely to be obese than children who did none of those things.

... and share a secret with you: aside from occasional nice sit - down dinners, my personal diet is extremely quick and non-complex because I simply don't have much time to cook — and I'm going to give you the exact quick and non-complex meals I base 99 % of my diet around.

At around 10, I open a small bag of chips or other snacks, then around 12 - 1 I'll have more heavier snacks (I don't take a full lunch to save time at work, I snack as I work), then around 6 or 7 I'll have dinner.

And at around 25 minutes from prep to finish, you'll have an impressive appetizer or light dinner that's full of flavor but doesn't have you spending a lot of time in the kitchen.

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.

I put it in the crockpot around 2:30 p.m. during my lunch break at home and kept it on high... boyfriend came home before me around 5:30 p.m. and said it was practically done, turned it down to the «keep warm» button for another 25 mins, and it was ready for dinner by the time I got back home.

We are too focused running around trying to get things done, get kids to school, activities, feed them dinner, provide homework time, get them to bed.

I kept it on the casual side this time around because I knew we would be doing lots of walking and going to more low key dinner spots.

Watch the early morning news and drink coffee Check in with emails from overnight Schedule my Pure Barre class for the day Start waking kids up for school Make breakfast -LCB- I do make breakfast -RCB- the MOST important meal for the kids of the day Pack lunches -LCB- and any extra snacks for after school athletic practices -RCB- Drop child # 1 off at school Get back home and have my own quick breakfast / smoothie before class Drop child # 2 off at school Head to Pure Barre Run any errands needed Head home and work Chores around the house Dinner planning Fitnessmomwinecountry work Answer emails Have light lunch or snack Try to get at least 20 minutes in for a power nap or just quiet time A shower before getting kids -LCB- if I am lucky -RCB- Car pool from school to sports practice Get home and start prepping dinner Get kids from practices Dinner, homework and family time My shower fiDinner planning Fitnessmomwinecountry work Answer emails Have light lunch or snack Try to get at least 20 minutes in for a power nap or just quiet time A shower before getting kids -LCB- if I am lucky -RCB- Car pool from school to sports practice Get home and start prepping dinner Get kids from practices Dinner, homework and family time My shower fidinner Get kids from practices Dinner, homework and family time My shower fiDinner, homework and family time My shower finally!

Between three kiddos to take to school, make lunches, baths, homework, go to work, cook dinner, do laundry and all the little pick up's around the house I still managed to pick out cute outfits (a girl has to make time for her favorite things, right?!)

We didn't have a lot of time there, but we had dinner downtown and walked around the city a little bit.

or see a local comedy show ok we would go out to dinner a buffet maybe some music or poetry / spoken word a walk around down town fayetteville take in the sites then stop for some where for coffee and talk about the poetry we just heard or... you can do a million things it's the person your with that makes it a good time..

I am a 6» Brown Hair Blue Eyes individual looking for a friend to hang with, do dinner, drinks, enjoy wine, show me around the town, I am not from the local area and looking for a special friend to talk with and enjoy my time up here.

If you want to head out to one of the awesome restaurants listed below when they're busy and happening, it's best to go for around 8 pm or even 9 pm, dinner time for Los Angeles residents and it doesn't matter what night of the week you choose you will always want to call ahead to make sure that there's room for you.

I put quotes around dinner because most times they don't actually CALL it dinner, but in my book, if you're giving me lots of food around 5 or 6 pm, that's dinner!!!

We didn't indulge this time around as we were saving our appetite for a late lunch come early dinner at Salt House, one of Cairns» premier Waterfront restaurants.

For instance, if you routinely get around 10 Mbps downloads during the day, but that figure takes a dive to about 3 Mbps around dinner time, you'll want to call your internet provider to see if anything can be done.

By the time I reached my apartment, cooked dinner, did a little light reading, and got ready for bed, it was around 10 percent.

But depending on the demands of the day, like when I needed to do lots of navigation, streaming or consistently keeping the screen on for long periods, I'd be reaching for a charger around dinner time.

I don't have much to add to the following video except to say: «I bet the average law - abiding gun owner has said this a thousand times around their dinner table.

Every year there are around 30 people for dinner and they spend all their time cooking, eating and doing dishes.

I'm excited, but also wishing our kitchen would be done in time for Thanksgiving dinner and that I wouldn't be Christmas decorating around a heavy kitchen sink in a box on the dining room floor.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.

Let's be honest here, we don't have a whole lot of extra time to host dinner parties and sit around with our friends (uninterrupted by children) sipping on cocktails and talking about world affairs.

There was a perfect spot next to the dining table to put our dog's extra large crate, and it fit just right.There was a vacuum in the closet, and we used it to try and keep up with our dog's hair.She is a golden retriever, and we thought she was molting!Hair everywhere and we kept bedroom doors closed, but we did our best to stay on top of it.She behaved like a pampered princess, and she wasn't crazy about the heat and the humidity.One evening we sat out on the porch with her, enjoying the evening in the rocking chairs, and when we came inside the BRB she collapsed on the floor inside and sighed.She apparently was thankful for the central air conditioning!For that reason, I think we will leave her with one of our daughters the next time we visit and stay with the Mermaids.The BRB is located in a quiet neighborhood which was perfect for us.Even better, it is located around the corner from AJ's Dockside Restaurant.Good food and perfect outdoor views of the sunset and the marsh from the outside tables.For those dinners when you would like to eat in, there is a grill in the backyard with a cover, and we used it multiple times.We had an excellent experience with the Mermaids, and we will most definitely stay with the Mermaids when we visit Tybee Island again.

With four little kids running around all day, blog posts to write, laundry to do, dinner to cook, playing chauffeur to do, a million projects on my to do list and a hubby that would like some of my time, the faster the project the better.