Family "glue"

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Some of ours..

Saturday night telly (or a film when there's no Dr Who or Predator or I'd Do Anything) with home made pizza.

Pancakes for breakfast on Sundays.

Growing our own potatoes.

General family meeting/debrief on Thursday evening (only night when nobody has an activity) so everyone can talk about anything followed by Uno.

Broadstairs Folk Festival.

Always making all birthday cards.

Daddy gets a lie in on Sundays but needs to be pestered every 15 minutes by someone offering him a cup of tea.

Mummy always cries at everything - baby photos, little socks, I'd Do Anything....and has to be brought tissues.

All particularly brilliant drawings, painting, stories etc are sent immediately to Grandma.

family sandwiches which is what we call it when we have full on cuddles. Dp and I are the bread and dd is the ham, sometimes a cat is pickle.

Playing board games or card games.

Walking the dog.

Camping.

Funtime fridays, I go to the pub dp and dd buy sweets, go to the arcade and watch too much tv. I pretend I don;t know.

Cooking esecially pasts as we throw spaghetti at the wall and it drives dp mad.

Church.

When camping or if walking for the day we will all paint as a family.

Twinset, we do the sandwiches too!

Whenever anyone buys chocolate/sweets they share. Tis quite sweet when 4 year old dd insists on paying for a Freddo bar for me.

Dh gets up every day to make coffee and dd's drink while I lie in bed to b/f little baby.

Singing - e.g. "horsey horsey" every day to dd2. Sometimes dd1 stops me singing!

Replacing names of characters in nursery rhymes/songs with your own dcs' names.

bathing together, naked cuddles, all cuddles (and we call them sandwiches too sometimes but ds is the cheese rather than the ham!). chants of 'it's the start of the weekend' on a friday afternoon. walking to nursery and shooting the breeze, a time I love with ds. dancing around the dining table like loons. family tickle fights (these can get quite rough, but I always win as ds and dh are FAR more ticklish than me).

singing twinkle twinkle to ds before he goes to sleep.

Oh, Broadstairs folk festival is great!

we thought we were the only family in the world who did sandwiches, I won;t tell dd she will be gutted.

If you don't tell DD TSAP, I won't tell DS.

ooh we have 'you've been framed' but we call it The Fally Over People

Pizza Marguerita night where we pretend we are at a pizza restaurant once a week

breakfast in teh garden in summer

films in bed before falling asleep with mum (this on nights when I am too ill to make it past 7.30pm)

whenever I try to do something difficult the kids shout 'go mummy, go mummy' at me till it is done

Capp, YBF is known as 'The Falling Down Programme' here.

deal Bree

Harry Hill is our family programme, dd howls at it.

My children are only 4 and 1, so we're just starting ours, but they're quite similar to the one's mentioned!

We have a season pass this year to a local stately home. So lots of family visits to this place.

We go to a proms night (with fireworks etc) every year.

Lots of long weekend breaks - we'll do about 4/5 this year. (But no expensive foreign holiday)

Trips to pizza hut.

Lazy sunday mornings watching a movie under the duvet whilst daddy has his lie in.

Eating tea at the table and talking, with no tv on.

So, just the usual really!

Oh and YBF too!

lol at YBF - us too. Though DH and I call it ''ball in groin'' in homage to Homer...(simpson )

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ah evening, curmudgeonly one...

Making cakes in the bowl I made cakes with grandma in when I was little. We don't do this very often because I couldn't deal with the consequences if I broke it.

Getting the train into the city and mooching around, having a starbucks then maybe a pizza.

Chilling in the garden when it's warm.

Packing the campervan on a friday night and sodding off for the weekend.

Weekend mornings piled in our bed.

Waiting for dad to come home from work at the window.

Eyespy( again and again )

Everybody getting out in the garden when it needs tidying.

I really need to work on glue more

Dr Who is about it for us

Always giving grandma the benefit of the doubt
Singing David Wainwright's Feet
Calling apples "abbies" and naked people "boodists"
Debating when, if ever, daddy's balsawood plane will get finished
Lorina pink lemonade "children's champagne" for high days and holidays
Rainy day matinees with curtains drawn and popcorn
Taking ds' three-foot cuddly Pikachu on holiday every time even though he is a Big Boy now
Consensus that mummy is a champion shopper and daddy makes wonderful curry
Tea and biscuits after church every Sunday, catching up with everyone else's busy week
Our special walk along the River Darenth
Always stopping to rescue bumblebees

Loving this thread!

We do:

family dinner every night where everybody gets to talk about their day (starts with Mummy asking the whole table "Did you have a nice day at the office, dears?")

bedtime stories (though dd is now 11)

picking berries in the forest together

summer holidays with gp's on an island

one short holiday a year with just the four of us, often in this country

switching between languages when we're on our own

silly family jokes

children encouraged to make us breakfast and dinner on Mother's and Father's Day

the night before every child's birthday, Mummy stays up late and sticks up photos from the life of the birthday boy/girl

We used to do:

film night on a Saturday night (will start this up again)

camping in the garden and (every September) in the New Forest- difficult to do now because of dd's disability

days out walking- again, this is something we can no longer do as a family

I am trying to start:

baking and cooking together

Frequent trips to A&E - DH with whichever child, and me at home with the other two asking "how is he?" "what will they do?" etc.

Whinges that Dad is working again this weekend, or "What time can we wake dad up?".

No, seriously, this is a sweet thread.

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