On 26 Feb 2006 08:42:52 -0800, "-L." > wrote:

>The only time we eat at the formal dining table is when we have guests.
> I would like that to change but I am outnumbered and resistance is
>futile. DS eats in his high chair, I usually eat standing up while
>managing him, and DH eats in his office (working), in the kitchen next
>to us, or in the bedroom watching a movie (we have sort of a theater
>set-up). We are pretty non-conventional types when it comes to
>formality.

You eat *standing up*?!? Ugh. Can't be good for your health. I have 2
kids, but even when they were toddlers they ate *at the table* (sure,
in their high chair, but at the table), and if they had to wait a
minute because their father or I were eating too, well they did.
I must say, I'm amazed to see in this thread how many people eat while
watching TV or doing stuff at the computer or whatever. But then I
have no TV, and I was raised on good food properly served and a
tradition of conversation at dinner, I just can't imagine it any other
way. It doesn't have anything to do with formality, it's family or
couple life. Call me old-fashioned.

Nathalie in Switzerland