Joyful Noises times six!: International Night

My inspiration for this record of my days:

“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” -Anna Quindlen

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

International Night–Korea

Jeff came up with a great idea for our Sunday dinners. Whenever we can remember in time to pull it together, we plan to do international nights. The plan is to let each person take a turn to choose a country and plan the meal accordingly. Each of us will learn a new fact about that country to present at the dinner table.

Our first country was Korea, since Jeff had been craving some Chop Chae, Kimchi and Bool gogi. (I have no idea how to spell any of those things!)

We ate with chopsticks and everything. Simon dove right in and never needed a fork! You should have seen the floor around him when he was done with that rice!