Dining

What’s for dinner?

If you're anything like me, just reading the title of this post gives you anxiety! The dreaded question that haunts the single and married, girlfriends and boyfriends, wives and husbands, hostesses and hosts, and moms and dads...it just haunts! I may have a little help for you that has completely transformed my dinner game and has alleviated the stress that comes with wondering 'WHAT'S FOR DINNER?' A little system I devised years ago (Mackenzie was 4, and Madison was 5)…
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Bread and Soup

Break off individual piece of bread, drop into soup, use spoon to push bread around the bowl to absorb the yummy goodness, then "little ship out to sea!" To get the last little bit of soup, tilt bowl away from you and "little ship out to sea!" Rest spoon at 4:00 to signal the server that you are finished. BOOM 💥 XXOO Mme. P ​​
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Soup Course!

Consider the spoon a ship, and the soup the sea. Now, little ship out to sea, I push the soup away from me! Then it's soup to mouth not mouth to soup (keep your head up). Think about it...you're pushing the soup away from you, and lightly dragging the bottom of the spoon on the back rim of the bowl (wait for it) to prevent droplets from dropping! BOOM! When resting the spoon, we rest at 3:00. (Utensils DO NOT…
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Hand Signals. 

Take your left hand and make lowercase "b" then take your right hand and make a lowercase "d." Now you'll NEVER forget which is your bread plate and which is your drink glass. I love you, and want you to feel confident when dining! ❤️Mrs. P. 
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Help, if somebody needs you!

Post 293.  In this photo, Cortez is teaching LaMontez to eat the continental way! ❤️ (I taught Cortez last year!)I love my life, I love these kiddos! Thank you Arthur Family for facilitating our classes! You're right, Jules, EVERYONE deserves to learn these life skills.  Truly-Mrs. Parker    
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Continental. 

This is Madeline.I taught her to dine "Continental Style." She killed it! (Oh...almost forgot...she's SIX!) A Truly Proud-Mrs. Parker   
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