Scene: My family dinner table
Date & Time: Thursday, September 15th at 6:00pm
Participants: Rachel, Josh, Sadie & Tyler
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Sadie: “Mommy this pasta is delicious!”
Me: “It should be, it has about a pound of butter on it.”
Josh: “Oh, that explains why when I try to clean it up off the floor it shoots out of my hands and flies across the room.”
Sadie: “No silly Daddy! The pasta doesn’t fly!”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Me: “Tyler, you have only had 3 bites of pasta. You need to try your chicken and zucchini please.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Sadie: “Is this zucchini different? It looks different.”
Me: “Sadie, would you like me to cut your zucchini into smaller pieces?”
Sadie: “Yes, but only if this zucchini is from our garden.”
Josh: “Of course it is from our garden.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Me: “Tyler, I heard you the 1st time. You are not all done. You need to have your no thank you bites and then stay at the table until everyone is done.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Sadie: “I don’t like this zucchini.”
Josh: “Then try your chicken please.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Sadie (gagging on said chicken): “I don’t like it.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Me: “This is Costco Rotisserie Chicken! The best chicken in the world!”
Sadie: “I don’t like it. Can I have more pasta?”
Me: “No more pasta until you have some no thank you bites of chicken and zucchini.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Sadie: “Can I have some ice cream please?”
Tyler: “I WANT ICE CREEEEEAAAAMMMMMMMM!!”
Me: “Nobody gets ice cream unless they eat their chicken and zucchini.”
Tyler: “I want Joe Joe cookies.”
Josh: “I thought you were all done?”
Tyler: “I want Goldfish.”
Me: “Okay…nobody gets anything else to eat unless you finish more of your DINNER!”
Sadie: “But I waaaaannnnttt ice cream!!!!!”
Josh: “Then finish your dinner.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
Tyler: “I’m all done.”
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I would have been “all done” at that point too! HA HA!
But I would like some Joe Joes please…. I ate ALL my dinner! ;P
p.s. this sounds EXTREMELY familiar…
Joe Joe’s are so delicious!!
It’s like you are in our house quoting our exact dinner conversation!
Glad I am not alone!
I swear some days I am tempted to shove their “no thank you bites” where the sun don’t shine!!! Dinner has been a NIGHTMARE for us too only add food throwing to the mix…. uggg!
That sounds very familiar! Ha! I love how you call them “no thank you bites”.
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My dad used to call them “no thank you bites”..ha!
Sounds like we have the same dinner time challenges! Gone are the days when we could eat an entire meal, in silence. Challenging, but also totally worth it, right? lol
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It really is worth it. Actually thinking about it & writing it down makes it even more humorous.
I was literally chuckling out loud at this… not at YOU of course, but totally with you… I am SO there (minus a child! and often a husband)
what exactly IS a “no thank you” bite? maybe I’ll have to adopt that phrase…
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Glad I could make you laugh! A “no thank you” bite is the bites the kids have to take of something if they don’t want it. My dad did it with me too!
Kids, you gotta love em. But why is it so hard to get them to try food? Why are they born with such a love for junk food? How can they arrive already brainwashed? Then after eons of dinners like the one you just had, they grow up to be gourmet cooks and shop only in farmer’s markets.
Is it OK to actually say “eons of dinners?” I know at the time it seemed like each “happy family dinner” lasted for an eon, which was always about 10 seconds longer than my patience.
I love “eons of dinners”! Ha! I love your comparison to a chef & farmers markets! So true!!!!!
Yes, this is what my house is like on a daily basis. But not just for dinner. It also happens for breakfast and lunch. The only meal my youngest likes is snack.
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My kids LOVE the snack. Some days all meals go like this….but dinner is the WORST.
Were you at my house for dinner last night?! This sounds so familiar! What is a “no thank you bite”? I may have to somehow incorporate that into my families meals. My oldest is SO picky.
Why yes, I was..don’t you remember me pouring your wine? The “no thank you” bites are the bites the kids have to take even when they don’t want or like something. They have to try it and that is what they are called! Ha!
Oh boy!! Sounds like a real treat at dinner time!! Can’t wait for that phase!! Asher got up at 230am and 6am this lovely morning!!! : /
Yeah…you are going to be in for it…big time!
I am so jaded after 11 years in the trenches – unfortunately it doesn’t always get easier that I can just tune out these conversations now. I can actually have them without my blood pressure rising at all.
It doesn’t get easier…even after 11 years!!!!
Wait. Did you sneak into my house and record dinnertime ’round here? Because yeah. It’s eerily similar. Good to know it’s universal!
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Glad to know it isn’t just my house!
That sounds so familiar! My boy always pulls the “I’m done” crap, but not even 5 minutes later he wants a snack. Those “no thank you bites” sound intriguing. What are they so I can give them a try?
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We just make the kids take “no thank you” bites even if they don’t want to eat something.
My kids would live on snacks if I let them.
this scene sounds awfully familiar, were you peeking in my windows this week?
Getting a three year old to eat anything good for them is proving to be an “adventure” for me.
Who can blame them, Ice Cream is good. LOL
plus I love the idea of “no thank you bites” what a great concept.
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It really is a good concept! Glad to know my house isn’t the only one like this!
Hey…I want ice cream too!
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I was ready to scream after just reading it! I can’t imagine living it.
I was ready to scream after living this AND writing about it!!
Oh, I am SO sending you the teenage girl and swapping for these two! Hilarious, my friend…maybe not su much when you’re the mom?
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It actually was pretty funny…I admit.
That’s still way better than my kid does at dinner.
Is it? This was bad…but a lot of the time we have tears & screaming too.
Funny. Good one.
Yes, dinner is nuts. We get the “I want ice cream!” Sometimes it’s “I want a popsicle.” I would pull my hair out if I had any.
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Ha! I pull my hair out all of the time!
I am pretty sure that happened at my dinner table tonight.
Of course, I am not really sure since I am in a cold meds fog.
Glad to know I don’t live in the only household like this. Hope you are feeling better!
Oh my goodness. This sounds so funny. And it totally made me remember. I love when you told him it was the BEST chicken in the world : ) Cute.
Oh dear.
We haven’t reached that point yet.. we’re at the picky toddler stage. I can’t wait.
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This scene is repeated at my house nearly every night. Sadly, my duo is 8!
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Oh, for heaven’s sake – this sounds EXACTLY like our house! It’s MADDENING! It’s not even like I’m fixing sweebreads or something!
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Did you have a microphone in my house? Because that is exactly what it sounds like at dinner time at my place.
Most of the time, I want to be the one screaming “I’M ALL DONE”
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Ha! You are so right…that is usually what I am screaming!!!
Oh geez… I think that same conversation is going on in every single American household right this minute. ANNOYING. Except my husband joins the kid in complaining.
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Oh geez! At least my husband doesn’t join in.
Good thing they are so darn cute!
And um.. Joe Joe’s ice cream? ridiculous.
The only difference at my house is that it ends up with me slamming my face into the table, telling my kids they are ungrateful turds and then rushing towards the bottle of wine. Or perhaps that isn’t different, you just didn’t mention it.
I couldn’t even get my 9 year old to eat a slice of pizza….am not hungry…then mom can I have pop, is there any chips….GAH
You know what? Screw Goldfish! I curse the day I brought those yellow things into our house!!!
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I am a bad person and also a fan of silent dinners. Family conversation’s overrated anyways, right? Right?
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The gagging? On food that you know they eat? Please. I’ve been there, done that kid. You can’t fool me!
Rinse. Repeat.
Sigh.
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That’s hilarious to me right now – know why? Because I have no children.
Talk to me in about 5 to 10 years. This might make me cry…cry because I’m wishing my kids were this well behaved at the dinner table!
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