For my family our Sunday ritual of breakfast and a drive has become our weekly tradition. As we all know during the week can be pretty crazy and hard to find time to all have a meal together, so in my family we reserve Sunday morning’s for that no matter what. My kids are older now and they still look forward to going. I am more of a spiritual person than religious person, so this was my alternative to church. This Sunday ritual was my way of making sure we at least once a week could set time aside time no matter what to come together as a family. It is so wonderful to have a day in which you can just get up in the morning, throw on jeans and a tee shirt, no makeup, and have no real time schedule to keep. It’s even better knowing you don’t have to hurry anyone else along either. After Saturday’s games in the rain and then doing sixty piles of laundry Saturday night, I find myself going to bed dreaming how wonderful those Bloody Mary’s will be in the morning. We have several places that we love to go, Darrington is one of them, and it is great because we can also hike by the river with our dog after Breakfast. For me this was the closest ritual I had involving food that is not around a Holiday, I believe it may have started out as something as simple as us all having breakfast together, but now has evolved into so much more. I hope that my children find that this is a tradition that they will want to continue doing even with their own families.
