We are trying to start some family traditions. What are yours?! I'm looking for more non-holiday related ones. Right now one of our most consistent traditions is ordering Indian takeout each Thursday night. Please share yours!!
Post by Ohhmm(bligo) on Oct 13, 2016 19:23:03 GMT -5
We try to do a big breakfast every Sunday - eggs, toast, bacon, fried apples, etc. We also like to go to the out-of-town Y on Friday's, where they have a bigger facility and a pool. We workout, go swimming, and then go out to dinner (earning back all the calories) as a family.
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Post by hungrycaterpillar on Oct 13, 2016 19:32:05 GMT -5
Oh Friday night family dinner - every Friday we meet my parent and my brother and his family at my moms house for dinner. We don't always do every week but at least 2-3 Friday's per month.
breakfast tacos at the farmers market every saturday
2 stories every night snuggled in moms bed before they get tucked in their own beds
one weekend a month my sister and I get sushi and go shopping
banana & chocolate chip pancakes on sunday mornings - I've been doing this one since college, I'd drag my hungover ass out of bed and make pancakes for our dorm while we traded party stories from the night before. Now it's coffee and paw patrol, but it makes me happy
None of these involve kids, but they could (I think kids would definitely be in favor of the first one).
On Fridays we have dessert before dinner (or at the very least we meet up with our friends who are having dessert before dinner - I've been trying to cut back lately, but we've been doing this for years).
In the summer we go to Shakespeare in the park and have a picnic before the show.
There was this old, cheesy roadside park we used to drive by all the time when I was a kid on the way to/from larger cities, and in high school my friends and I started waving at the big beast out front when we'd go by on the way to various competitions (we were nerds). But I still have to wave at it 20 years later when I come back to town, even though the park is long since closed.
Every 1001 days I have a new list of 101 things to do during those days, it's called the Day Zero Project. I have yet to complete a list, but I'm currently on my 4th iteration, and it's a way of getting me to try new things, and I have several friends who feel invested in helping me out, which makes it more fun.
We have pizza/movie night on fridays. Lately we've been doing dinner at my IL's on Sundays, mostly because I grocery shop on Monday and I run out of food by Sunday night. Lol.
In the winter we do brunch almost every Sunday just to get out of the house.
I love this idea. For a time, before she had a child, my BFF and I would meet at Panera twice a month for lunch then walk around our local mall. I miss those days.
Pizza and a movie on Fridays and big breakfasts on Saturdays. We don't have kids but here are the things my parents did with us:
Ordered pizza and watched TGIF as a family, mom would also make popcorn Breakfasts on Saturdays (usually muffins or pancakes) Mom would take me out of school and go to lunch one a month When we got good report cards, we would go out to eat to a place of a kid's choosing (alternated between kids) Ice cream cones after soccer games
We're Catholic and Italian so we love us some traditions...
We used to do Fancy Brunch Sunday. We'd have mimosas with a full breakfast. It was wonderful! But then Holly got a job that required weekends so that tradition ended.
Some nights when DH is out, I close all the blinds and make it dark and DS and I have a movie night with just the two of us. We eat popcorn for dinner.
I give him fruit and a cheese stick "while I'm making the popcorn" so he can get some food groups in.
Friday night gyro take out and a movie on the floor of the living room. Our favorite gyro place blew up last spring (in Seattle-- I think it made national news). We used to walk there, then the chocolate shop for treats. Now we have to drive to their other location, but there's another chocolate shop on the way home. We've done this almost every Friday night since I was pregnant with DS1, so almost 7 years.
Post by FrozenSunshine on Oct 13, 2016 22:31:57 GMT -5
We had pancakes once a month or so growing up and my dad knew I liked mine with chocolate chips so to this day every time I visit, without asking I get chocolate chip pancakes in bed!
H and I don't exchange gifts for birthdays/Christmas, we pick a new restaurant to try their tasting menu.
We adopt two elders every year for the holiday's and provide gifts. We do the shopping together and get the elders what they want while reminiscing a bit about time with our grandparents.
Not sure this can go on long term, but a goal this year was to see a new city a month in the U.S.
Every time H and I buy a house, we eat Indian food on the floor on the night we close.
It's semi holiday related, but is during Nov and Dec. we go to a big light decorated place where you can walk through. Our bigger tradition is we buy a hot chocolate in the reusable mug and we all share it and keep the mug. We only had time once to go the day after Christmas. It was hell like and all I could think was how bad I felt for the people who lived on those streets. But honestly I think A,who is almost 6, enjoys the hot chocolate and the mug the most. Doesn't have to be huge, mostly just something that makes you happy.
We go out to brunch on Sundays pretty often. At least a few times a month. I guess that will be a tradition for DS. Hopefully we'll get into some other stuff, like pizza and movie nights or something. These sound fun.
We don't watch sports or care about them so on Super Bowl Sunday we would go to an amusement park. They are EMPTY! We are able to go on all the rides without any lines. It is glorious. We haven't done this since DD2 was born but she's getting older so we may start up the tradition again.
My brother does Fast Food Fridays (he is a solo parent while his wife serves in the Navy). We do a spin off of that--we call it the same thing, but it involves going to a sit down place.
My son (who's 5) is trying to get Wegman's Wednesday off the ground. Don't know if it'll stick.
We order pizza every Friday and watch shows that we DVR throughout the week that we like to watch as a family. Once a month we have movie night - pick a movie at RedBox and have popcorn. A few times a year we have game night.
It is not consistent because usually we eat whatever leftover we have on Sunday night but Friday night is pizza and Sunday is brunch or fries with chicken or a roast. Tonight might not be pizza. I already cooked tonight's dinner last night (ground pork with cabbage,green onions, ginger and soy sauce). I need to be more consistent because it would help tremendously with meal planning.