What impact is The Studio Kitchen's food having on your life?
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Surly teenagers, and discombobulated evenings. Actually, I really believe that eating together as a family is critical….it forges us into people who know each other, and move in each other’s lives on a level deeper than “functional utility”, as St. Thomas Aquinas said. Each dinner doesn’t have to be group therapy….just laughing with each other, and describing the mundane things of our lives works to weave us together. You go to bed feeling attached to each other…not distant, and unknown.
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Anything else you wish to communicate?
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I have been grateful for what a seemingly simple thing has done for our daily lives. We are just a regular, middle-class family. If anyone had told me a few months ago that I would be receiving two weeks worth of dinners delivered to our door, I would have guffawed (still a word used in small circles, I understand), saying with some vigor, “That is for rich people…people who have nails, and dress like the “after“in “What Not to Wear“….careful hair, casual chic with non-matching, but fabulous handbags that have Names. They don’t drive minivans be-strewn with fruit roll-up wrappers, and various and sundry socks, and look like the “before“ in “What Not to Wear“. But I have seen the light, and am walking with deliberation towards it. It is no more (or not much more) expensive to have you prepare the meal, and I have more time to be generous in other ways to my wonderful, sprawling family. It has been a blessing. Though I find that word grossly over-used, in this case it is warranted because it has led to a tangible good….more time together, sitting at a table, enjoying a lovely meal, and remembering why we are so crazy about each other. That is a “blessing” if ever there was one!
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