Dinner At Seven.

Dinner at seven is marriage in the Stone household.  It's Mark leaving working early evening and arriving home at seven in the summer season.  It's Christina gathering her grocery list and heading to the store and compiling meals from old family recipes or pinterest or her own creations.

Dinner at seven is marriage in the Stone household.  It's two ways of life blending.  It's Wever casseroles and Stone meat and three finding a rhythm usually of neither -- pastas and enchiladas and crockpot roasts.  It's salads and late night ice cream for the usual dessert.  It's water with lemon, it's two at the table.  It's special napkins with white plates spread.  It's taking two lives and committing them to one.

Dinner at seven is commiting to the dinner table and to the coming together routine.  To being present with each other, to setting aside the day, to being purposeful about that time.  Dinner at seven is Mark laying aside the freedom of work hours, to come home at a spoken time.  Dinner at seven is Christina snacking at four to wait for his hug at seven.

Dinner at seven is commitment, compromise, unity, protected.

Dinner at seven is marriage.