If you read my blog, you might remember that Patrick and I have a 4 year old habit that we need to break now that Bennett has arrived. What is it?

Biting our nails? No. Eating too much little caears pizza? Maybe… How about eating dinner in our living room. Yes.

Patrick and I have eaten dinner on our couches since day one of marriage. We MAYBE have eaten at our kitchen table 5 times in the past 4.5 years. Our table has only been a home to snail mail, our aloe plant Marley and the various arts and craft projects I embark on.

Patrick and I both grew up eating dinner around a kitchen table. We want Bennett to grow up eating dinner aroudn the kitchen table. What is hard though is breaking the habit of watching our favorite show while eating dinner on the couch. Even when I was 38 weeks pregnant, I would sit on the floor of our living room and use the coffee table to eat off of. It never even crossed my mind that maybe sitting at a table might make things easier. It’s just what we have always done.

We will be introducing food to Bennett once he turns 6 months so we knew when Bennett turned 4 months we needed to start introducing our new family routine. So this week I placed Bennett’s high chair at the table and made it a purpose to plan dinner at the table that night.

Night one? Weird but good.

Night two? Completely forgot. We ate dinner in the living room as usual.

Last night? After a stressful day we reluctantly sat at the table but we did it!

You might not understand why this even deserves a blog post but it’s a big deal to us! It’s just another Relbot Adventure that we have embarked on. It will be fun to look back on this post when Bennett is 5 and we have forgotten the days of couch eating while watching our favorite shows.