Sunday Dinner

Does your family still do a Sunday dinner? With the roast, potatoes, and dessert?

I can remember when I was growing up that Mom always made our Sunday dinner a little more special. She did a roast, with mashed potatoes, some veggies, and some kind of dessert for us. And I followed through.....I always did some kind of a roast (either a nice chicken, or a pork or beef roast), did the mashed potatoes, and had a cake or a pie or something to finish off our dinner.

And while I still try to make Sunday dinner a little better than the rest of the week, it's not to the extent it used to be. We don't have a roast that often anymore because it's too much for the two of us....unless I specifically plan to use the leftovers later on in the week for Rick to take in his lunch or for a supper. Or I'll freeze the leftovers.

We don't do dessert that often either anymore. I'll make pudding on Sunday so that we have it for lunches at work and keep some back for our dinner today. Or if my sister and BIL come over for dinner, I'll grab a pie from the freezer or I'll bake a cake, but that's about it.

Do you still have Sunday dinner?

It depends on my mood. Usually I try to make Sunday dinner a little more "special" than a weekday one, but not to the extent of dessert or it having to be a roast. When I make a roast, it's usually on a Sunday, though, simply because I have more time.

Not usually on Sunday. By the time we get up, do Sunday School and Church services, then get home, I crash. In fact most of the time, since we have to drive twenty minutes to church, ten more minutes takes us to town, so we eat in town and do errands. Last week I did have some food cooked. Another couple invited us to stop at the grocery where they have an inside restaurant too. I told them instead why don't you and the kids (3) come to our house. They stopped and got a Bojangles chicken meal with mashed potatoes and biscuits and some other things and brought it here. We put it together with my BB Que'd chicken, mashed potatoes, green peas and a pie and we have plenty of food for the seven of us. Sometimes a meal like that is better than one you spend the week stressing over to plan. We enjoyed the afternoon with them.

Unfortunately no.  Growing up we had one every week at my Grandparent's house with my Aunt, Uncle and cousins.  A few times a year my other Uncle and Aunt would be there with their kids and we wouldn't even fit in my Gram's little dining room together.  Mom and I always came after church and then my cousins and I would play while the guys watched sports in the basement and the rest of the adults napped in the living room or front bedroom.  Usually my one cousin, Gram and I would play some kind of card or board game after that.  Dessert was served whenever enough of us were ready.  If we were still there around supper time; Gram would make sandwiches.  GOOD TIMES!  My Gram was a stellar cook!  My Mom and Aunt are proof the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!  Even my cousins and Grandpa too actually.  

My Mom will do dinner now from time to time; just not every week.  Usually after church I'm anxious to get at least DS down for a nap.  For some reason my kids don't like to nap anywhere other than their own beds after they are about 6 months of age. 

My mom used to make a pot of sauce and pasta on Sundays and we would sit together. Now that us kids moved out she rarely makes sauce anymore. If I am out by them on a Sunday with my sister she would make the sauce and get Italian bread to go with it on her finest china too.

My Grandma always had a nice Sunday dinner for us. Usually roast chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. String beans and parker house rolls. I miss the good ole' days at her house!! She always had really fun toys in her attic too.

Sometimes I make the cats scrambled eggs for their Sunday dinner .