So many good ones above that I may just have to adopt! Love the clap for every year of age!
Yes, when I am sick, and my thoughts turn dark, it's not my accomplishments that make me smile and comfort me, it's those quirky family things proving that it really is the little things in life that count. A few others:
- youngest in the family always places the star on top of the christmas tree.
- Birthday presents are always unwrapped on mum and dad's (me and hubby's bed) first thing on birthday morning. With five of us and four dogs it gets very crowded during the unwrapping.
- with my youngest 19 we still have an easter egg hunt with cryptic clues that take my husband a week to write. The clues are all about things that have happened during the year, e.g. the step where so-and-so fell and chipped his tooth etc.
- We have a family song that I sang to the boys before sleep every night when they were little. Still going strong.
- We have many lines from movies and quotes that have come to have special meaning to the family over the years. The so-called insider jokes.
- The only dessert my husband ever makes is his 'famous' trifle for special occasions.
- we have watch-til-you-drop night - basically a movie marathon where kudos is given to the last person awake. Hubby and I are always the first to sleep.
- Friday night is always GYO - Get Your Own (dinner)
