Little Traditions
The Goodnight Word That Makes No Sense to Anyone Else
Our bedtime routine ends with a made-up word nobody outside this house would recognize, and it has outlasted every other part of the routine we used to follow.
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Little Traditions
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Friday Pizza and a Movie: How It Became Ours
We did not plan our Friday night ritual. It grew out of one exhausted evening, and now the kids ask about it…
The First Snow Tradition We Fell Into by Accident
We never meant to build a ritual around the first snow of the year. It happened once, then again, and now the…
The Pancake Shapes Only We Understand
We make lopsided pancake shapes every Saturday morning, and the kids can name every single one even though nobody outside our kitchen…
The Driveway Chalk Tradition Nobody Planned
A leftover box of sidewalk chalk turned into a Sunday ritual we never wrote down anywhere but everyone in this house knows…