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Wednesday is the first day my kids are back with me each week. They spend Monday and Tuesday with their dad, and they are with me Wednesday, Thursday and every other weekend. It’s an even split and infinitely fair, but it remains strange years later that I have a homecoming of sorts every Wednesday.

Before ‘Friends for Dinner’ became routine, my boyfriend Tony would join us for dinner once in a while on a Wednesday, and for a long stretch, one of Conall’s close friends would come home from school with him and stay with us until about 8, having dinner with us every Wednesday. I was off work Wednesdays until recently and would greet the kids at the door and have some wonderful home cooked meal for us all each Wednesday night. We would sit around the table and share the meal, with friends in tow, and reconnect.

The start of a tradition

‘Friends for Dinner’ really came into its own about a year ago. It started innocently enough when a good friend needed some extra support. I invited her to dinner on a Wednesday and then again the next Wednesday and the next.

via After Divorce, New Tradition Brings Family Together – Royal Oak, MI Patch.