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Getting Dinner On – A story from Seeing the Everyday
By Seeing the Everyday | January 19, 2012
The stories in Seeing the Everyday magazine are intended to teach, cultivate, guide, bring awareness to, and validate fathers and mothers in their ever-present responsibility to their family. Each story is a personal experience shared by a son or daughter whose parents recognized their vital role to nurture and deliberately build their children, young and old. In reading their stories we see that we influence relationships in all we do and that nothing is routine in the development of a person.
In Seeing the Everyday issue number twelve, Chad Cannon recounts a story from his family that reminds us of the role of humor in our relationships. In response to a common mishap, Chad’s father and mother showed how making the most of a potentially disappointing situation can build a family instead of hinder growth. We share their experience with you here.
A favorite story in our family was the time when Mom needed extra help in the kitchen. She was finishing up some other tasks and asked Dad if he could set the table and get dinner on. With the casserole in the oven Dad said he would take care of things, allowing Mom to finish what she had started. After a short time passed, an amazing crash came from the kitchen. Naturally, Mom responded with, “That better not have been the casserole!” There was no answer.
Minutes later when Mom entered the dining room, she noticed the table wasn’t set and, thinking of the crash, marched into the kitchen to see what had happened. There, sloshed all across the floor was the casserole. Surrounding the disaster were carefully placed plates and cups and spoons — Dad had set the floor so dinner could be served.
Mom fell apart laughing, and Dad suggested we pick up pizza for a late supper. Humor has been an important ingredient in our family dynamic as we have grown together day by day.
- Chad Cannon, Seeing the Everyday, issue number 12
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January 19th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
That is awesome! What a gift humor is. We have a lot of it in our family, and I’m learning to laugh more. :)