When my husband and I were very recently pregnant with #1 - we took a day trip to Martha's vineyard. We spent the day walking around and talking about how we envisioned our family life together. We bought a journal and wrote down "rules" for our family and family traditions that we wanted to keep. I think family traditions are extremely important. They give our family a source of identity. The kids like the predictability and excitement of these traditions.
Today, #1 is 6 years old! We are keeping some old and some new traditions. Our biggest birthday tradition is breakfast in bed. This was hard today since #1 needs to leave the house by 7:40. I helped this along by making pancakes last night, after the kids were asleep. I just reheated this morning and #1 was so happy to have his breakfast in bed. A new tradition we added was putting balloons on the floor of his room so there was a big surprise in the morning. The final tradition we have for birthdays, is the birthday boy gets to pick what is for dinner. Tonight's dinner ~ hot dogs!
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