When my kitchen is clean it definitely has a lot of potential to be the center of fun in our home. Because our dining room is unfortunately not only carpeted, but carpeted with shag carpet, we opted to have the dining table in the kitchen. One of the few lovely things about my kitchen is that there is room in it for a table. Space is about the only thing our kitchen really has going for it.
Our kitchen is both literally and figuratively the center of our home. Its the place where we share meals and many conversations. The table has been the site of arts and crafts projects, and its where we keep many of our family traditions like making chocolates at Christmas, coloring Easter eggs, decorating cookies, painting watercolors, planting seeds, and doing science experiments.
The kitchen connects me to past family generations as I cook recipes that have been passed down, or make recipes that are new to me but are native to the lands of my heritage. I love cooking for other people. Its one of the ways I show love to my family and friends, and its a great way to help people out when they are down. Cooking also connects me to my children as I teach them how to cook and to enjoy cooking.
I spend a lot of hours in front of the computer every day. There are days when I don't feel like doing the things that need to be done in the kitchen. As I type this I am thinking with guilty thoughts of the dinner I should be making right now. When it comes down to it, as much as I love my computer and the connections it gives me to people that don't live nearby, I have to say that the kitchen is still the funnest room in our house. The kitchen is the place that not only feeds our bodies, but where we spend time as a family, and that feeds our souls.
Our kitchen is both literally and figuratively the center of our home. Its the place where we share meals and many conversations. The table has been the site of arts and crafts projects, and its where we keep many of our family traditions like making chocolates at Christmas, coloring Easter eggs, decorating cookies, painting watercolors, planting seeds, and doing science experiments.
The kitchen connects me to past family generations as I cook recipes that have been passed down, or make recipes that are new to me but are native to the lands of my heritage. I love cooking for other people. Its one of the ways I show love to my family and friends, and its a great way to help people out when they are down. Cooking also connects me to my children as I teach them how to cook and to enjoy cooking.
I spend a lot of hours in front of the computer every day. There are days when I don't feel like doing the things that need to be done in the kitchen. As I type this I am thinking with guilty thoughts of the dinner I should be making right now. When it comes down to it, as much as I love my computer and the connections it gives me to people that don't live nearby, I have to say that the kitchen is still the funnest room in our house. The kitchen is the place that not only feeds our bodies, but where we spend time as a family, and that feeds our souls.
4 comments:
That was so beautifully expressed. I feel a sudden urge to go clean my kitchen. =)
I do too. :) I was going to be lame and say "the living room" because it's the only room in the house we can all be together, but I agree with you.
I love the kitchen. You said it so well. Everything happens there and I have wonderful memories of home where I was in the kitchen.
My kitchen is where I blog, where we play games, where my daughter sets up her barbies, where we eat. So I guess it is fun. How can food not be fun, I ask you?
But, I don't hide the candy in here so...well.
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