weekend rituals
here at the Sauce house, we have two weekend rituals. Every Saturday night Sauce jr stays up past his bedtime and we watch 'Hockey night in Canada' while eating popcorn and drinking hot cocoa. Every Sunday morning we have a pancake breakfast. It may not sound like a big deal, but we all look forward to these things during the week and they give a sort of a routine to our lives that is comforting.
anyone else have weekend rituals?
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we do it most Friday nights, we've watched a few muppet movies, curious george, sword in the stone last night..that SUCKED...
We usually eat out one time (whether it be lunch or dinner) and many sundays we have dinner at grandma's house.
I miss Sunday dinner at Grandma's house. We used to go all the time when my brother and I were kids and now we live further apart and everyone works on the weekends more. I wish my kids could grow up with some of the awesome memories/traditions that I had with my grandparents when I was growing up.
Usually on Saturdays we go out somewhere fun to eat and head to the movie store to rent whatever the kids want. It's great because kids movies are free. Tonight it was 101 Dalmations.
My husband is very jealous of your hockey night because we rarely ever see any games on our tv. We have a local team that we like to go see. Maybe when the kids are a year or two older, we'll turn that into a weekly(?), monthyl(?) ritual.
We have a game night, but we do it every two weeks instead of weekly. My son and I have friends over and everyone plays board games. During the week after I put V to bed A and I break out the scrabble board for a couple games. He even beats me on a regular basis now! I'd like to start doing something weekly with the kids, but my work schedule varies from week to week.
when i first found out i was pregnant and i was looking for positive things about having a kid, i'd daydream about rituals and traditions we'd have. i'm ten days away from d-day now and wonder what our rituals will be in the early days. not to say my childhood was bad or anything, but one of the things i always felt that it lacked was some sort of structured ritual, like the movie nights and sunday pancake breakfasts you gals mentioned. this sounds like one of the more rewarding aspects of parenting and i can't wait to see what we'll come up with when he's old enough to need this.
p.s. mrs... if i come over this sunday, will you make me a spider-man pancake?
sadly we don't have any rituals pertaining to days of the week. dh is rarely home often enough to even make the bedtimes run smoothly. for awhile there we were going over to my mom and dad's for sunday dinner, but they've been super busy with this church-y play they're in for easter. i need to find a way i can make this work even w/o dh being around- what's good for really little kids- m isn't really into movies yet and a- well- she's not into much of anything...
as a toast to you though mrs. s, i am planning on having a pancake breakfast- something dh and i would do on the weekends before kids.
And DH and I cook together, or he does most of the cooking. It is usually a lot if fun, and I love it. He does breakfast potatoes, and they get the whole house smelling delish.
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as of late has been going to the market on Saturday. There's a HUGE markent in the city that we drive to and stock up on fresh fruits and vegetables for the week, any paper products we need, chorizo, fresh cheese and tortillas. We have a great time and now the people at the market know us and know what we like to buy...then we come home and wash everything and put it away and make dinner or something.
Owen doesn't get to into it, he'e 2, but I think he does have a good time being with mama and daddy and he LOVES stocking up on bananas and mangos!
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We do breakfast on at least one weekend morning. Often includes pancakes and bacon or sausage. Sometimes we do bagels and occassionally I'll make bagel egg sandwiches (my favorite). The kids also get to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings (and sometimes Sundays), which is great because they'll go downstairs together and have a little snack while watching cartoons or a video for a good hour or so, during which my SO and I can sleep in a little bit!!!
We have a semi-ritual of going to the library every Saturday morning. The librarian has gotten to know DS and expect him to come in with at least 2 or 3 book topics for his pile of books for that week. I say "semi-ritual" because this sometimes competes with our other Saturday morning ritual, which is "pajama day", when we get to stay in our pajamas and play until we are absolutely tired of being inside which is usually around 11 or noon. Pajama Day is especially important to Mama because after a week of rushing my not-such-a-morning-person son out the door to daycare, it is such a luxury to laze around.
We don't have "movie night" regularly yet but when we do watch movies together it is always with popcorn. One time we started a movie without popcorn and DS looked at me like I was insane, and said simply, "mama. I need popcorn."
I want more of these. DH is a little bit resistant, not because he resists ritual (he eats the same cereal every day, change makes him break out in hives) but because he views weekends as time to get things done. he is forever making impossibly long lists of tasks to complete. i am going to think about this some more, thanks Sauce.
Sunday morning is Daddy's day to get up with the kidlet. They make a fancy breakfast and bring me coffee in bed. I don't have to appear before 9 a.m.!
We're also making more of an effort to incorporate the tradition of Shabbat into our home. Traditionally, Friday nights were a night you stayed in and invited friends/family over for a leisurely dinner. But, I'm a working mama so often, instead, we go out. In the summer, we walk to a restaurant in the neighborhood. We focus our conversation on the less mundane and try to discuss what is going on the world (as best one can do with a 3 yo). We light candles.
I also try really, really hard not to "schedule" us on the weekends. I live my working life in one-hour increments. So, I try and take a break from that and make spontaneity the rule.
I think family rituals are so important. I really can;t think of growing up with many, but I'm trying to adapt some into my little family now. As far as weekend. I love Sunday am's in the backyard. Early morning sun filters through trees, cup of coffee and sitting in my pilow chair. Kidlet is happy rooting around yard and dh and I actually talk.
That said, we have a few rituals on holidays that I try and keep going.
Family Hike on Thanksgiving AM.
Beach walk or bike ride on Christmas day.
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which i think were inspired by another hipmama mentioning having that tradition. we have a lazy sunday morning, go to the grocery stores, go to the ice cream place, and then go to the nearby cove/park. dd has gotten so used to this pattern that when she slept through the first grocery store, she insisted that we needed to go there after the second one {they're right next to each other}.
my plan has long been to create positive family rituals for dd, but i've been a bit of a slacker. a few weeks back, though, i put up my altar for the first time since we moved when dd was wee. she asked me a lot of questions about it, and i answered them in what i hope was a way that made sense to her. she sometimes goes back to it, and we talk about it more.
last weekend, we were over at some friends', and they have a couple of altars in their backyard. when dd saw them, she said right off, "oh, look at the altars, mama." i thought that was so neat given that they bore so little specific resemblance to mine in terms of scale and items and such. it seemed like some kind of start or something.
okay, okay, end ramble.
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"if i pass for other than what i am, do you feel safer?" ~ lani ka'ahumanu
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Same order, too. We start off with a lazy Sunday morning, then grocery shopping, followed by a stop at the locally owned ice cream shop in our neighborhood.
yay! for ice cream sundays!
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Of course!
but we are working on adding another. We want to make our Sundays "consumption free" as in no spending money. It seems like a healthy way to keep our priorities in line.
ah...i still remember when there were no stores open on sundays...seems like a good idea now.
We have snacking Sat. nite, I serve things like spinach dip, mozz sticks, burritos, that kind of stuff. We usually have a bowl of popcorn later. Sunday morning I make a big breakfast, we take turns choosing what we want. Then I do groceries, alone later in the day. Geez our rituals sound food motivated..lol
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