Sabbath Meal

One of our typical Sabbath meals. We decided a couple of months ago that we would knock off work and be sitting down to eat at 6pm on Saturdays - without plans to go back outside and finish anything! So we get to start our "Sabbath" rest on Saturday evening. This has been really nice for us. We girls endeavor to have everything finished in the kitchen, including clean up, so we can rest after the meal and enjoy each others company. Will also wanted to start practicing hospitality so once or twice a month we try and invite a family over - the other two Saturdays we practice table manners! No elbows, talking with food in the mouth, talking over folks, passing food correctly, keeping glasses up right (mommy included...), etc.. It really has been nice - we are still working the kinks out but are settling into a routine :)

 

so what you see here is (from far left) mashed potatoes, grilled veggies, cheese, grapes and sausage stuffed dates (don't knock em until you try em!) - on the good china by the way!

sweet sisters :)