New traditions

One thing I want to say about 2020 is that it’s taught our family new ways to adapt and bond. While I’ve been a stay at home mom since I had my first daughter over 13 years ago I’ve never actually “stayed home.” We’ve always been on the go be it to appointments, play dates, errands, etc. So much like everyone else, being told to stay home was a huge change for our family.

It took some adjusting for sure, but I think we’ve definitely gotten into a new routine and developed at least one new tradition this last year! A couple traditions, routines, weekly habits (whatever you want to call them) that we’ve been able to continue with throughout this time has been a Friday night movie night and Saturday night dinner picks.

The dinner pick started when I needed to be able to grab food on the way home from church (back when it was safe to go) and I didn’t want to have everyone fight to decide which drive thru. So I decided each week a new family member would pick where we grabbed food from and everyone else either chose food from their or they had to eat something we already had at home. (We did take some time off while we waited for the new safety standards to be in place and it to be a deemed safe to go back to drive thru.)

Letting each member have their day let’s their voices be heard and everyone get a chance to chose their favorites. One other fun thing that was started while quarantined was taken from the movie “Mean Girls”, “we always wear pink on Wednesday!” Let’s face it most of us live in lounge clothes and go nowhere, so having a day to wear something specific helps change up that routine! My girls also decided to add a fun mid-week treat of Starbucks to this!!!!! Secretly, I think they were trying to find a good excuse to get me to take them to Starbucks more often……..and it’s worked!

So here’s to the fun new and old traditions helping us get through this crazy time we are in!