OK, so I'm lying. This what I wish my dinner table would look like, but it soooo doesn't.
I very often get the question, "What do you do for dinner, how do you feed all of those people at once, it must be crazy and hard" ? Well, crazy and difficult are just a few of the words that I can describe what dinner time is for me. My answer usually is very simple. " Have you ever been to a buffet" ? " Because, that is exactly how I do it". The food is cooked and plates are set up according to age. The youngest first all the way on up to the oldest. Yes, we all sit down and eat at the same time everyday. For if we didn't , my life would be even crazier. The kids clear their plates and put the dirty's in the sink. Baby is feed and cleaned and TA DA, dinner has now been accomplished. Yes, I find dinner time, everyday to be an adventure and it usually is. Food on floors, tables, hair, faces and oh ya, the walls. Dinner is hardly ever quiet or pleasant. I have yet mastered how to actually sit down with the family and eat when their eating. My dinner is usually about 1/2 later than everyone else's.
One day I'll master it, but I'm sure by then, It'll be quiet, and dinner time won't be the same. I have to cherish the craziness now while I still can...
This is what my table usually looks like..lol