We'll talk about the feast in another post, but something I really appreciate about the meal is that it's something special, an event. Therefore dressing up is standard, there are cloth tablecloths and cloth napkins, the fine china and serving dishes saved for special occasions get put to good use. It used to be that Sunday dinner was such an event in this country and that tradition has fallen by the wayside. So it gets resurrected in the McKneely home and it's a tradition that we continue in our home (Sorry Aaron!).
So all that being said, someone should have given my kids the memo!! It probably wasn't a great idea to give them a snack at 10:30 and expect them to wait until 3:00 to eat again, but that's just how it went down, so blood sugar was low and it was nap time, and...you get the picture. But when we attempted to get Sam dressed into his church clothes just to eat, he blew a fuse! He was so mad and sad and just a mess!! Go figure, he wanted to continue to wear his prized yellow soccer ball shirt and short pants that he'd been wearing all morning.
Here he is right after getting dressed. I was trying to get our family together to take the opportunity to shoot our Christmas photo since we're all dressed up and have plenty of hands to snap a photo. What a joke! Sam just would not calm down. This was about the best we could do....needless to say we'll be having another photo shoot soon!
He continued to cry all through the impromptu photo session as well as through the dinner. He was so hungry but tired too and after eating some, we took this tired, cranky boy up to bed and I enjoyed a more peaceful feast!
A funny moment through all this was his inability to calm down, Stephen threatened that if he couldn't pull himself together, we'd just send him to bed--it was getting pretty ridiculous! So through his wailing and tears was his exclamation, "I'm gonna beeeee ha-peeeee!" ( sniff sniff), it made many smile, and me as well now that it's not in the moment.
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Poor Sam. I'm glad the Aller family gets dressed up too and brings out the fancy china and tablecloths - now we do it too. It does make the special meal even more special.
That reminds me of the time we came to the McKneely's for Thanksgiving & as they began to get dressed up--us, untraditional people--said,"what?!? oops!!" We hadn't brought dress up clothes--I'll blame my Mom on that one anyway. So--I think that year our cousins got out of wearing a tie. he-he
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