"You have ten minutes to get to school!" screams my mother as I race around the house looking for a pair of shoes.
"I'm working on it." I reply, grabbing a yogurt on my way through the kitchen.
This is constantly how meal time goes in my household. During dinner we do homework. Breakfast is normally on the way to school. Lunch is slightly more relaxing because my mom is not there to make sure I am using my time "productively." We are always busy or have somewhere to be so meals is a time to multi-task, and family dinners are a holiday-only occasion.
Most families see meals as a way to spend time together, but now that we are all older, my family rarely all sits down and has dinner together. Other people have their mom prepare the meal or dad cook on the grill, but ours is more of a get at least to meals cooked this week and eat the leftovers later on. There is always someone missing when we do get together because of football practice or choir, but we still hang out together, watching movies or going to each others' activities. Meal times for the Cimbura family are never extremely significant. It works for us though because we do a lot of other things together to make up for that time. Eating as a family is important to most people, but we do not find it easy or convenient to have dinner together everyday. Instead we run around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to do multiple tasks while eating.
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