I hate my kitchen

I have a galley kitchen.  I keep looking online and in magazines for ideas on how to remodel my kitchen to make it more practical for a family of seven, but my kitchen is backwards to every other galley kitchen I've been able to find.  


In the average galley kitchen, you can walk through to the dining room.  Not so in my house.  In my house, the dining room is on the other side of the kitchen.  On the wall between the two rooms is a huge built-in designed to hold dishes and small appliances.  My sliding door to the backyard is also in a very different place than in all of the other kitchens I've seen.  This makes the remodel options I've seen useless.  


I cannot have more than 2 people in the kitchen at a time.  That makes preparations difficult...as does the small amount of counter space I have.  


I guess I can just hold on a few more years and my family will shrink.  Shrinkage, however, will only be temporary as my children marry and have their own families.  Then, the kitchen will be entirely too small for any family get togethers.  


I will get some pictures to put up of my layout.  Maybe some poor soul who wanders across my blog will have some great ideas.