Mommy’s Diary 35 – Making a Tradition

Have you seen the movie, “Dan in Real Life“? I like that movie. I hope my family will look like that in 30 years. That movie portrayed the family being so tight, loving and full of traditions. I hope to develop traditions like making family pancake breakfasts for lazy Saturday mornings and making cookie houses at Christmas time. Super sentimental I know, but hey I can dream!

But, in an effort to get the ball rolling on my family tradition building, I started making a cookie house (not gingerbread house since I don’t really like gingerbread cookies) last year and have carried this into the present. It’s so much fun! Kiko is now 8 months old so she could not help with the decoration of the house, but she helped eat a piece of cookie that I specially shaped like a pig for her. She stared at it and bit it, stared at it and bit it…It was a little hard for her little front teeth but in the end she seems to have been pleased.

I’m looking forward to this time next year, when she can sit next to me and help me both decorate and eat the cookie house!