In lieu of saying grace, before every meal (okay, every meal at home that's just the two of us) Arne and I hold hands and say "I love you."
Jeff (my brother) is the only visitor who generally gets included in this ritual. Generally when he's here we all hold hands, I say "I love you guys," and then we say "Happy dinner" to each other and eat.
We are also fairly ritualistic about always saying thank you for cooking and cleaning chores.
My mom used to enforce a road-trip ritual: Each of us would get a bag of M&Ms, and we could eat one every time we passed an exit. Jeff and I usually cheated, but Mom never ever did.
On road trips now, Arne and I play the horse game, only we keep adding new rules. Plus, he's driving so he can't really look, so I count for both of us.
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Date: 2005-08-26 06:53 pm (UTC)Jeff (my brother) is the only visitor who generally gets included in this ritual. Generally when he's here we all hold hands, I say "I love you guys," and then we say "Happy dinner" to each other and eat.
We are also fairly ritualistic about always saying thank you for cooking and cleaning chores.
My mom used to enforce a road-trip ritual: Each of us would get a bag of M&Ms, and we could eat one every time we passed an exit. Jeff and I usually cheated, but Mom never ever did.
On road trips now, Arne and I play the horse game, only we keep adding new rules. Plus, he's driving so he can't really look, so I count for both of us.