Wednesday Spaghetti

Alright. 

I've been totally slacking.

I mean, how hard is it?

It only costs about $3, and that's if there are more than 6 or 8 of us here.

So, what?  A buck fifty?  Two?

And I came up with the idea.

You'd think I'd stick to the plan a bit better.

It's the time, man.

I just haven't had any time.

Or energy.

You know how I get when it's cold outside.

But the nice weather is back.  I'm back.  Back on my own personal crusade to get people to sit around my table and to get people to sit around your table.

We all eat. 

Every day.

And I think it's high time that we start doing it together.

Wednesday Spaghetti is back, in full force. 

Every Wednesday at five o'clock or so I'll be putting a pot of water on the stove and waiting for people to file in. 

And if they don't come? 

If it's just Jake and I sitting down to supper? 

Well, that's just fine.

What is Wednesday Spaghetti?  In technical terms, it's this:
Wednesday Spaghetti was formed to increase public awareness of the need for families, caregivers, and peer groups to spend quality time together in an in-home, casual dining setting in order to discuss general life issues, household guidelines and practices, personal habits, issues, and goals, educational habits, issues, and goals, employment habits, issues and goals, family habits, issues, and goals, physical health-related issues, sexual health-related issues, emotional health-related issues, spiritual issues, relationship issues, community events and resources, and other such topics; to support and conduct nonpartisan research, educational and informational activities to increase public awareness of the importance of togetherness, communication, and good nutrition; to provide simple to make, nutritious meals to any family or group in the community, regardless of race, color, creed, sexuality, religious beliefs, ethnicity, economic status, or location at no cost to the family or group.

But really it's this:
Turn off the tv, silence your phone, and pull up a chair.  It's time to eat.

There's a tax ID number and all the paperwork in place making it an official non-profit, there's an oft-neglected WedSpag blog and a "real" website in the works, there's people doing it all over the country every Wednesday, there are homeless shelters and drug rehabs and churches doing it (at my suggestion!! I love when people do what I ask!!), it's happening in my house, and I hope it happens in yours, and now you can find Wednesday Spaghetti on Facebook.  Check it out, hit the "like" button, and maybe try it out in your kitchen if you aren't already. 

It doesn't have to be Wednesday, it doesn't have to be spaghetti, it just has to be some time, some thing, some where, and some body at a table with you.

I promise you will be amazed at what happens.