I have been asked recently a few times based on my blog why we end up eating so late (especially on weekends) in our family?
The answer is really very simple…..we are too busy doing other things than to cook at regular times. We extend the day as long as possible when it comes to our leisure time.
During the week we work late often, so by the time we get home unless we are forced to be on a better schedule because of school schedules etc…we always choose, no matter what time it is when we get home, to sit and chat and have a drink together (well I watch my Hubby have a drink)
Then we get dinner prepared and then we eat it.
So often that is very late. Sometimes even 10pm. Once even 10:45pm at the cottage! Crazy people we are. No wonder our kids grate on our nerves sometimes, we hang out with them too long in any given dayJ
So here is a typical day for us on weekend so you get the picture (I am often asked this question).
Typical weekend at Trent on a Saturday in Summer:
7:30am-adults wake up
10:00am-adults actually drag their lazy asses out of bed and get up and male adult has coffee
10:05-10:45am-two adults talk in bed and chat
9:30-10:30-3 kids get up during that hour (rule is no one in our house gets out of bed before 9am on weekends EVER!). Even guests are asked to PLEASE sleep in!!!!
10:30-11:45-kids watch TV and make breakfast which is usually homemade couscous. Weird kids
10:45am-adults go and drag their asses to the dock and sit there and chat and talk and read for an hour
12:00-we all do our chores around house and clean up and put sunscreen on
12:30-2:00pm –we go on the boat and practice slalom skiing, wakeboarding and other stuff. Adults used to do this..getting too old and more scared every year especially that our kids are so much better than us now.
2:30pm-we eat lunch very leisurely and sit at table
3:30-6:00-often boys go play golf for most the afternoon with Dad, or just Bear does, or we sail, or trampoline, or boat and swim or just hang out, go tubing, kids play with neighbors, kids go to village for bike ride and treats
6:00-8:00pm-kids watch TV and take showers. Adults sit out on dock and wife watches husband drink and we watch the beautiful sky. Or we all do Happy Hour on the dock and use our discussion cards game with the kids.
8:00- We all do end of day cleanup. We decide to relax a bit more before starting dinner so usually all pile on the bail bed and snuggle up and half fall asleep
9:00pm-we decide to start making dinner. TV goes off-music goes on. Kids help or board game is played by kids. Mom writes blog while Dad and kids cook!
10:00pm-we sit down to a nice dinner on deck or sometimes a simpler appetizer sampler night on dock. We have candles and dessert and sit there a looong time.
10:45pm- we watch part of a movie or 2 episdes from Modern Family Season 1
11:30-kids get on our nerves and we send them to bed. Why are they acting up??? The night is young!What is all the whining and fighting about? Get a grip children! Are you tired or something?
Midnight: we go outside and fall asleep on our bali bed
2:00am-we get scared of sleeping outside in case a bear comes and tired of sleeping on a chair made for one person and fitting two. We come in and go up to bed.
And so that is why we eat so late!!!
Now Spring and Fall are different stories all together. Work, work, work. To have bali beds, and boats, and docks and food. Hardly any fun. All we do it seems is work at work and work around the 2 houses at home. We save all the fun for summer and for winter ski season.
I wonder why I prefer summer???
