Some traditions our family has planned carefully, like looking for baby Jesus before we open our gifts on Christmas morning or taking time to have Advent dinners in the season before Christmas. Other traditions have just sort of happened:
I present to you the Second Annual Gingerbread House Demolition.
My children sat at the kitchen island for at least an hour today, smashing and cutting and banging bits of gingerbread. I do believe the word “smithereens” was used repeatedly.
I am also grateful for so many of the other traditions that have just sort of developed or are developing in our family:
315. holding hands when we pray before dinner
316. reading before bedtime
317. candlelight dinners on winter evenings
318. handmade Valentines
319. siblings making gifts for one another
320. simple prayers of thanks offered before lunch
321. relaxing Sunday afternoons
322. muffins for breakfast on weekend mornings
323. strawberry and peach picking and freezing
324. Handsome’s garden
325. and the subsequent dubbing of the food: Daddy-grown-tomatoes, Daddy-grown-cucumbers, etc.
326. ice cream for the first goals of the soccer season
327. handmade and kid created red, white, and blue construction paper hats on Independence Day
328. husband and wife kissing at red lights (and the kids yelling, “Ew!” from the backseat!)
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