Submitted by Lisabeth Tunell:

 

I used to think that Dining Rooms were  used for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Diners while growing up until I had a dining room all my own…..

I am thankful that builders still put dining rooms in new homes…there is a reason the dining room never lost its popularity.

We have family night in our home every Monday night and try to have dinner and sometimes a movie to try to reconnect with each other after going separate ways all week. How many of us are so busy going in so many different directions that we forget what is important…family and spending time together. This is why we need to make an effort to make a date with the whole family each week, set the dining room table, that is hardly ever used, sit down and have a reconnect session. Its great to find out what each other has done that week, is planning on doing for the next week or just talk about what it is you did that day. You would be surprised how easy it is get the conversation going and how much laughter will be heard around the dining room table that USED to be used at holiday time only!!!!!