Traditions

One of the things I enjoy most about being a mom is thinking up and starting traditions for our family. I'll admit that when Eric and I were childless this didn't seem as important, but now that we have Owen I'm really enoying thinking about what habits I want to start now and continue as he gets older.

Here are some of my favorites we've started to establish:

Reading the Bible at meal times and eating together as a family at dinner. My parents actually started this tradition when I was growing up - we would have devotionals after breakfast each morning. We try and all sit down for dinner every night and after we're done eating we'll read a few Bible stories from the "Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes." It's a great kids Bible that I read as a child - big pictures, a few questions and a short prayer at the end. The best part is that Owen asks for it every day and wants us to read more and more stories!

Saturday morning cereal and cartoons. Owen is a big breakfast eater - every morning he eats two eggs, toast, fruit and yogurt. On Saturday I give both of us a break and we just have cereal and fruit in front of the TV. I usually put on Veggie Tales or Thomas the Train and we just hang out for an hour - such a nice change of pace from our busy week day mornings. This is the only time of the week Owen really watches TV and even though his bowl of cereal and fruit doesn't have milk in it, he usually puts his food in my bowl of milk and we share. :-)