Health & Fitness
Princeton Family Dinner Week Starts Today
How planning and being prepared allows you to be flexible and rearrange your family meal time amidst a crazy schedule.

FLEXIBILITY: Tuesday Dinner Becomes Saturday Lunch
I had a family meal plan for last week, it fell apart on Tuesday . . . the perfect fit in our sports calendar, PHS away baseball at PDS with PLC lax practice on another PDS field, seemed too good to be true . . . oh, and it was! Although the 10 run mercy rule was about to kick in at bottom of the 5th inning, allowing me time to run home, have kids settle and set table, me run back for my lax player and we all sit down and eat. Then PDS, who obviously did not want to get to dinner as badly as I did or least not at the expense of a win, rallied, reduced the PHS 10 run lead to 9 and we were in for a full, long seven inning game, ending later than one would hope and wreaking havoc on our dinner hour! New plan . . .Tiger Noodle. We all ate together, relaxed and laughing, well for the most part, just as we sat for dinner I realized I did not have cash for a cash only restaurant, sent my oldest to the bank machine, only to have him return saying"your card was not accepted at 3 machines mom!". I ignored the problem and had a great meal . . . he was hitting the credit button, not the checking withdrawal, and all was well.
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Tha dinner plan from Tuesday rolled to Friday, kids with their dad for a couple days, so Friday became our next opportunity for a family meal, but Friday it was me and one child, so we walked to town and found and another option for our meal together. TODAY !!! Tuesday dinner plan will be realized at Saturday lunch today! After ACTs, one lax game, one lax practice, everyone will be starved and home! The evening again? . . a little crazy, me and one child, different one from last night, mom and son time alone, lunch becomes our critical mass, take a break catch ourselves up, family meal!
Have a family meal plan for Princeton Family Dinner Week which begins Sunday April 15th!