Family rituals

[pegkerr]

Tell me about one family ritual that you do that means a lot to you. I'm asking about everyday rituals, not holiday or special occasion ones. It could be from the family you grew up with or the family you're in now--or even somebody else's family, if it is a ritual you like and admire. I'm looking for a list of the little things that families do that build together memories, cohesion, trust and love.

When Rob and the girls and I eat dinner together, we go around the table and each person says one good thing that happened that day.

Whenever I'm driving with the girls and we see crows, we recite the rhyme:

One crow sorrow
Two crows joy
Three crows a girl
Four crows a boy
Five crows silver
Six crows gold
Seven crows a secret never to be told

And you?

Comments

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

Peg! This is so in-the-past that I can't see the comments. I just chased back through your journal, looking for this, because I wanted to copy down the "continuation" that someone posted in a comment, and now I can't see it. Can you possibly possibly send it to me? This is my favorite rhyme and I wanted the variant.

Why can't I see comments on the old entries? Is that a setting or does it happen for everyone on old ones?

~Amanda (lewanski_amanda @ bah.com)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Hi, Amanda. I don't know why you weren't able to see the comments. I can see them myself; perhaps it was just a momentary LJ glitch. I respond at this comment, and send you this info by e-mail, too. The longer version of the poem was posted by callanuv, as follows:

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl, and
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret that's never been told
Eight for sunshine
Nine for rain
Ten to be lost and found again.
Eleven bring fortune to all that them see
Twelve for a journey down to the sea.
Originally, it was a magpie counting rhyme, from England. In the US, crows are far more common in most areas than magpies, and the rhyme is almost always about crows.
Another one starts
One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a wedding, and
Four for a birth..."
I don't remember that one by heart. I'll look it up, sometime soon.

The thread is here.