family meals

16 Conversation Starters For More Meaningful Family Dinners

September 21, 2020 by Sally

Eating dinner together helps you feel more connected as a family. Here are some dinner conversation starters to make those meals memorable. Thank you to FMI Foundation for sponsoring this post! It seems like ages ago, but there was a time when “family dinner” wasn’t a given for every family, thanks to sports practices, school …

Let’s Get Our Kids Cooking!

January 30, 2017 by Sally

I’ll admit it: I don’t cook nearly enough with my kids. At some point, I established dinner prep as my own personal escape, a time to turn on music (or lately, a podcast) and unwind. I granted my kids an hour of screen time and retreated into the kitchen to chop, simmer, and decompress. All by myself. But …