Dinner, oh how I love and despise you! Wouldn't it be awesome to be a fly on the wall and observe how other families handle dinner time? I could use some major tips at this moment.

Dinner prep usually goes like this: Mom, busily trying to get dinner made and on the table at a decent hour. Kids, preventing mom from making dinner at a reasonable hour with lots of tears and complaining. Mom, prepping herself for when Bryan gets home by rehearsing in her head "just smile when he walks in, just smile"

Finally dinner is made and it's placed on the table and without fail I hear a "I don't like that food" come out of my kid's mouth and at this point of the day, I want to just cry. And most of the time someone ends up with tears before dinner is over.

Dinner is at such a hard hour. Everybody is exhausted and worn out yet we are supposed to have this nice sit down meal where we talk and enjoy the food we are eating. Don't get me wrong, I think dinner as a family is crucial and something I  loved growing up but lately it has been a battle for me.

So, after mulitple days last week when I completely lost my patience, Bryan decided that something needed to change and so we now eat dinner at lunch time and lunch at 5:30pm.

And I love it! Bryan gets an hour lunch break and so that now becomes our nice sit down meal. I can't tell you how relieving it is to have 5pm come around and not feel the rush of getting a nice meal on the table especially when the kids have hit their max. I also love that the kids are so much happier in the morning anyway and so it is a lot easier to get them to eat their food. It's a still an adjustment trying to prep for meals now that I have to do it the night before but overall, I'm sold.