tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84424074088318833562024-03-13T09:21:04.007-07:00Get A Grip GirlThis is my journey of single motherhood, managing a career, 2 kids and managing my passion for life. Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097096101806918125noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442407408831883356.post-48956409280886295832013-12-10T20:22:00.003-08:002013-12-11T08:34:16.321-08:00Special DinnersI like to do special dinner time with my kids as often as I can. Simple meals, but the deal is I sit down with them and talk to them like a friend, not a mother. I focus on smiling at them, talking idle stuff, and don't reprimand them for anything, or at least I try. I really do try.<br />
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I do it without announcing it - that way they don't know when it happens (and neither do I!). That way it takes the stress off me. I want it to be as natural as I can be. I set the table up, have dinner laid out on the table and dim the lights. I have this special lights I use for occasions like this. The mood is set. I sometimes light a candle, and they know with the dim glow and mummy sitting with them, they get excited and they start talking.<br />
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It is our time at that time. Conversations goes on, I ignore my text messages, calls or anything else. To me are my girls in front of me and I am having dinner with them. I am truly having dinner with them, and it is nothing about the food - it is about the company, it is about being one with them, bonding through food, just as if I am their age again.<br />
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