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Take back your dinner table!

With Thanksgiving in mind, I thought I would share something we do at our table.  I think I got the idea from Emilie Barnes, but I am not sure.  We call it table talk.  I have a gallon mason jar that I fill with little strips of paper.  On each paper is a question that the kids have asked at one point, or just a question that my hubby or I think would be a good conversation starter.  At supper time, we take out our jar and one of the kids pick out a question, they read it out loud and we all have our turn to say what we think.  Usually it leads to other topics, and often times, it has been something that we will research the next day as part of school.

Some of our questions:

Why does it rain?

Where is heaven?

If you could build your own house, what would it look like?

What is your soul?

Is an animal cracker a cookie or a cracker?  (hubby's of course)

Why do we walk on our feet and not our hands?

Say something you love about the person sitting to your right.

What would you like to do more as a family?

These are just a few, but mabey it will give you an idea.  Also I make little jar toppers, I found the pattern at A Christian Home, and I put one on our "Table Talk" jar so it looks pretty.  This could be something you could start at Thanksgiving, and have the little paper read, "What are you most thankful for this Thanksgiving?"

Anyway, just an idea.  Does anyone else have any Thanksgiving traditions they do at the dinner table.  If you write about it, let me know so I can come for a visit to your blog.  I love new traditions, and reading about what other families do.

Blessings, Rossie

I love this idea!

{ 10:44, Saturday, November 18, 2006 } { Posted by Jonash2004 }

This needs to be implimented at my MIL's - the strangest, non-dinner table talk seems to come up there alot! :\
But I like this idea for our home as well, although with only me and dh talking, we might as well just talk! ;)
Blessings!
Ashley

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{ 10:59, Saturday, November 18, 2006 } { Posted by BlueApple }

I love those jar toppers - very cute. Thank you for sharing the link.

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{ 11:48, Saturday, November 18, 2006 } { Posted by Kitty }

I know I can always count of you to inspire me further. Have a great day.
Kitty

So important

{ 12:13, Saturday, November 18, 2006 } { Posted by Pattisea }

Dinner is so often the only time the whole family is together. Your mason jar is a great idea. In our family, everyone wants to talk at once, so the jar idea would probably help with that!

Thanks for sharing.

have a great day!

Patti

Hello

{ 06:07, Monday, December 18, 2006 } { Posted by marthaskitchen }

What a lovely blog entry, I so enjoyed reading it. Thanks for the ideas, which I have now written down & will impliment at our dinner table. Also really loved the link to Christian home as I have never seen that site before. So thanks again
have a wonderful day
Helen