If your family all eat dinner together at what time do you do it?

[Flum]

My kids are 4 and nearly 2. I usually feed them at 5 ish. Then DH and I eat about 8.30pm.

I would lurrrrrve to cook just one meal and then close the kitchen but DH just isn't hungry earlier.

At weekends I sometimes persuade him to do an early meal at say 6 or 6.30pm.

I have tried a few combinations. I think the ideal for me would be 6pm so I could get the kids ready for bed then dinner all together then pop them into bed.

It should work for us as DH works from home but I can't seem to get him really into it.

I want the family thing and the less work thing. Would it be awful for me to just announce that dinner will be at 6pm on say 3 nights a week and him have to lump it.

I don't really want to force it on him as I ain't his mum but maybe I should just introduce it for a trial period and hipe he likes it.

Maybe I should just make it 7pm and get the kids to bed later....

Actually Cod, we talk about Barack Obama.

But one thing we do do is feed dd by herself on a friday evening and then we have a nice proper adult meal with wine later on. dunno what we will do when she gets older though.

DS2 even.

And then we say. Oh god, you've spilled your drink again, why can't you be more careful DD3, no DD you don't need more ketchup, you've already got the European ketchup lake on your plate, I don't CARE if the Simpsons is just starting DD1, you are eating your dinner at the TABLE.

We eat together at the weekend, mostly just lunchtimes, and sometimes at 5pm dinner if we have not had something decent midday.
Weekdays, there is no way I would jeopardise my lovely quiet evening meals chatting to my DH and remembering that we are also in a relationship. It gives us a chance to be a couple!

Dss are just 3 and 5mths though, so no doubt in a few yrs we'll eat together weekday evenings too.

Oh, we don't talk!

Mostly it's me saying, brightly, "so how was your day today?" To which both boys say "fine". I then say "what kind of fine" and they both look at me with pity.

Or have things that only need re-heating later, rather than starting to cook again.

Or cook after the kids are in bed and then give them your leftovers the following day.

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You shouldn't talk...
You don't talk with your mouthful y'know.

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You lose weight by eating earlier your know.