While I could never add to Tom's prolific post on Breakfast in Bed (and prolific pictures, I might add), there is no doubt that Mom (and Dad's) loving traditions live on in the lives of each of her children.
This morning Sisi kicked off her 5th birthday with one of my favorite traditions—breakfast in bed: delectable french toast, the happy birthday and fried ham songs (not captured in the video below), and a bed full of siblings (Kai and Anders) ready to partake in the spoil.
Some of the other traditions (alive and dead) that I have enjoyed with mom are:
1) Special Day (where one of us gets to go out with her for an hour or two)
2) Morning scripture study
3) No chores on your birthday (which, sadly, never applied to Mom)
4) Having our favorite meal made on our birthday
5) Rib Fest (lunch at mom's for Joseph's work colleagues)
6) Going around the table on peoples' birthdays and saying what we like about them
7) Going to the old stake center on Christmas Eve to hear the organ play
8) Visiting Midway every year
9) Going out to lunch with everyone before the MTC
10) Eating gelatin pudding in those old-school gray plastic dishes at our old house for FHE
11) Putting our Christmas presents into "sections"
12) Getting chocolate oranges in our stockings
13) Singing hymns in the morning
14) Father's blessings (with mother's blessing?)
Looks like most of my favorite traditions revolve round food. I'm looking forward to hearing other traditions I've forgotten about!
Thanks for making Sisi's Birthday Nanny!
This is Dad commenting from Mom's computer. Other traditions include: Making Bratzli, breaking large glass dinnerware, taking impulsive vacations, Easter egg hunts at Great Grandma's, skiing trips, force feedings wherever Dad had trade, having people live with us, traditional remodeling, mayhem during the babysitting sessions while Mom and Dad went on media trips - most of which apparently fell over the week of Tom's birthday. We also gave $20 if the dentist found that you were cavity free. Questions for quarters, seat belt checks, and hotel stays with the family were also part of the family fun. One of the wonderful things that Mom continues to do is family haircuts. (or, for Porter, "Two cuts.")
ReplyDeleteTwo other traditions that come to mind were trips with dad before the mission (did all the siblings do that?) and the Adams Christmas Eve Party of singing Christmas songs and getting together.
ReplyDeleteThere are some things that mom and dad "tried out" as traditions, but that didn't stick. For example I remember several years in a row mom put green footprints all over the house on St. Patricks Day. I seem to remember a few other scavenger hunts like that too.
We also used to go out together after Priesthood meeting, which is a tradition I'd support reinstating. Who's with me?
I'm a big fan of the sister sewing trip and the brother's golf retreat we've done. Let's make that a regular deal. Get it on the calendars!