Traditions and simple pleasure

We have set up weekly traditions for the times when I have the kids and their parnets are not there. On Monday mornings, if they get themselves ready in time, they get to have a pancake. This is tradition after I suggested it once. They NEVER forget to ask.

On Friday afternoons, when I pick them up from school, it used to be making a cake or biscuits but there was always a squabble about what we make and who gets to do what. Now, we stop off at the shops on the way home to get ingredients for Pizza and then make our own dinner. Friday night is pizza night and there was some disappointment on the part of a child was going to a sleep over on Friday night that she would miss pizza night.

Traditions like these are good, I like them.