Record Keeping:
Birthday Journals - Yearly journal entries sharing your heart, your memories and your prayers for your children.
Thanksgiving Journal - keep a record of thanks for your family. Bring it to thanksgiving every year and fill it up in between too.
Stones: Stones of Rememberance. Joshua 4:5b-7 "Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?' tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever."
Making Memories:
- Birthdays - midnight phone calls in order to be the first one to wish a happy birthday.
- Special Plate for meals, with a book that recorded the special person, reason, meal and date.
- Sunday Morning Breakfasts: everyone seems to be able to get ready in time for breakfast out, why not make it a tradition?
- Pajama Runs: Getting the kids back up after they've been put to bed and taking them out in jammies for a special treat. Dessert at a restaurant, a special visit to gramma's, viewing holiday lights -and only one rule - NO ASKING if tonight is a pajama run night.
- Plate-Over Night - flip thier dinner plate upside down over a simple treat.
- Me and My Mom/Dad trips - take them somewhere just the two of you and enjoy each other!
What ideas were you inspired with?
2 comments:
We are all over the Pajama Run idea!! So exciting! I am now in search of the perfect bell to ring...but I may just settle for the Taboo buzzer. The Thanksgiving journal will be a fun one to do also! It was an awesome month (thank you Tina)and has really gotten our household thinking! :)
I really loved all the information that Tina shared. It has truly made me think about what "traditions" I will start even though Cayden is only 10 months. I am thankful that I got all this information early on. One of my favorites was the birthday journal, I am a sucker for "emotional" memerable things!
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