Sunday Kind of Day

For us, Sunday is Church Day and we get up a little earlier than usual, put on what used to be called “Sunday best” and drive over to church. 

Our church is a very friendly church and after the sermon, we “share the peace”, going around shaking hands with just about everyone in the congregation. Our church is smaller and it is a little easier to know most of the people. 

For Hubby and me, Sundays mean church and lunch after. When we come home, we relax and perhaps even have a nap. Sometimes we see family, but they are scattered now and it is not so easy to do. 

Not everybody attends church and not everybody who does is there every Sunday. These days, a lot of people have to work on Sunday. 

When I was young in Toronto, Dad and I would visit my grandparents, so that was a Sunday thing to do as well. We would have breakfast at Downey’s Pancake House near the Canadian National Exhibition Grounds in Toronto. Then we would drive to my grandparents’ modest home in West Toronto. Dad and Grandpa would play cribbage and Grandma taught me how to knit and how to laugh and enjoy each other. It was a family Sunday. Grandparents can be the best friends that children will ever have. (Everybody knows that a grandchild can do no wrong!) 

In the 50s and 60s, most families probably watched The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights. Sundays were very casual and relaxing. Do people still have thick Sunday newspapers with lots of flyers spread out on the floor? Since we are not in the big city, our paper is not so thick, but we do read it right through! 

During my first marriage, we went to his parents’ home on Saturdays and Sundays. Mom would make a delicious dinner and then the fellows would watch hockey in the living room while the gals would be talking in the kitchen. Sometimes we would play cards or a board game. That was a family that really enjoyed being together! 

Sunday is probably no longer the relaxing sort of day it once was. Most women work, so there are always some household chores to do. Families do not likely live in the same city. Life is too busy to take a break. “Too busy to take a break?” Uh, oh! That just might be one thing that is wrong with us these days. 

Well, think about it and see if you could do a few more things in advance and let one or two things go. If you could create a “Sunday Kind of Day” for your family, how nice could that be?