Eat With Your Family Day 2008

Did you eat with your family today? Well, I didn't. Parents and Margaret had taken their dinner together as it will be pretty late if they were to wait for me. Moreover, M needed to catch her bus to Ipoh. I do understand the purpose of having this special day. Though I couldn't make it today but we all have dinner together almost every evening. *blessed* As for Nat, Chris and Cheryl, they are staying in the East and only come back during the weekends. So you can imagine, our weekends are so 'happening' and really like 'pasar malam' when 9 of us seated at our rectangular dining table. Is good to know that many companies participated in this program and they encourage their staff to leave the companies by 5pm and have a family meal together. Sigh, see the common issue in the first world country?

extracted from Fathers.com
“Eat with Your Family Day” – a ritual of the heart
CFF has been running this initiative since 2003, to remind families that the ritual of having meals together goes a long way towards keeping the family together.
Make plans to reinforce this important practice in your family and pass on important values to our children, by doing the following:
1. Plan and coordinate family members’ schedules so that you can all eat as a family on Friday 23 May 2008
2. Encourage friends and relatives to do the same; encourage employers and schools to enable this to happen
3. Make it a habit to eat with your family