I think most of us truly desire to have one big happy family, all gathered around the table, holding hands to say the blessing and then to fill our hearts with laughter and our bellies with good food. I think most of us have our own version of the Walton family dinner table in our minds…especially us moms!
But the truth is TV is not real and of all the families I know there is not a single one that has the ideal. They all have issues, if not within their own household with extended family. We all have gatherings we need to go to, “because we are family”, yet we dread it. We dread an obnoxious personality, a hostile worldview, bratty kids, lack of love…name your reason.
