I’ve been thinking a lot recently about rituals. In November, MG will start daycare and R and I will go back to the office full-time. So, even though she won’t remember them long-term, it seems like a good opportunity to start with some family rituals.

You can have daily rituals like…

• a few, on-rotation afterschool snacks
• saying what you are grateful for at the dinner table
• taking a shower and changing into pajamas after school (instead of before bed). We did this a lot when I was a kid and it was soooo cozy.

Or monthly rituals like:

• cake for breakfast on the first day of every month

Or yearly rituals like:

• a birthday experience (instead of presents)
• pumpkin carving
• opening one Christmas present on Christmas eve

Or seasonal rituals like:

• late night summer grocery store runs;
• going to the library on a rainy day and then spending the day snuggled up at home
• watching Moonstruck between Christmas and New Year’s