Yummm. Family Dinner. What could be better than home made cooking? Well I guess it could be when you don't have to cook it at your own home. Since all of my siblings have moved out of my parents house my Mom and Dad have family dinner almost every Sunday. My dad usually does the cooking, he has always been our head chef in the family when it came to dinner. Not that my mom never made dinner, I think he just enjoyed it more. This Sunday it was a crab salad. Oh, I forgot to mention, my parents have also become some sort of wine cynosures since their children have left nest. My dad usually always has a glass of wine near by when he cooks. I think my mom drinks a glass of wine when my dad cooks too.
I do believe this was her glass poured from the "Hey Mambo" bottle filled with California Red Wine. Sitting next to an International Retail Imports magazine she was going to go read with her wine while my dad finished cooking.
It didn't look like he minded much. He really does enjoy cooking for his children, or perhaps it is seeing his children that he really enjoys. He does have the knowledge that home cooked meals bring familys together from near and far.
It brought my sister in town from Bellingham for this meal. While she moved there to go to college at Western Washington University five years ago, she ended up falling in love and now lives with her boyfriend. It took her a long time after graduating to find a job (other than waitressing) in her B.A. of International Business. She finally found one but it is also located in Western Washington.
As my mom is drinking her glass of Red Wine and talking to my younger sister, Jessie, my dad claps his hands back and forth as if to say "Let's Eat!"
The salad looks good. But my dad make me something extra special. Usually he makes me something special every Sunday dinner I come to,
This night it's pizza! I am actually a vegetarian and my dad goes to all this trouble to make me my special vegetarian meals so I can join in and eat with my family. This pizza is actually one of his specialties; one sauce is pesto and the other is barbecue. It's delicious!
After dinner to repay my parents for my meal and for them putting up with me taking photographs all night, they have a request for a family portrait. So we all go downstairs after the dishes are put away and withough a lighting kit or meter I set up the automatic timer and rush back by my family and smile just in time...
If you ask me it turned out pretty good. This photograph just so happens to be the last portrait type photograph taken in this house of my parents. I moved into this house in the third grade of 1991 and my parents moved out in November 2009
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