Nancy Young wrote:

> When I was a kid, you only ate at the dining room table
> on holidays. Otherwise no food, in any form or fashion,
> left the kitchen, and we all ate at the kitchen table. Now,
> I have a little wood tray table I use, once in a while we eat
> in the kitchen at the table like big people. When you don't have
> children, the rules can go out the window. I'd be strict about
> eating at the table if I did have them.

Now I feel even more "guilty"... we have a toddler and we still don't
eat at the dining room table... but the funny thing is - I just
realised - when we eat on the veranda/porch (which is often in summer)
we do eat at the table. Maybe our kiddo will get the idea eventually...


Cheers
Cathy(xyz)