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I like the idea of ritual, but I never seem to have gotten the hang of it. When the kids were younger, the family had a fair number of "traditions," such as going up to Duluth every year, to stay in a hotel and watch the ships and drive up the North Shore. But as they got older--and with an eight-year difference between the oldest and youngest--this one or that one lost interest in a tradition or had other things going on. I can't think now of one single thing that any of them expects me to do--except that we still have the tradition of the whole family going out to eat for birthdays and anniversaries of their arrivals in the family, and it takes something big (like living in Korea!) to keep one of them away from that.
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I like the idea of ritual, but I never seem to have gotten the hang of it. When the kids were younger, the family had a fair number of "traditions," such as going up to Duluth every year, to stay in a hotel and watch the ships and drive up the North Shore. But as they got older--and with an eight-year difference between the oldest and youngest--this one or that one lost interest in a tradition or had other things going on. I can't think now of one single thing that any of them expects me to do--except that we still have the tradition of the whole family going out to eat for birthdays and anniversaries of their arrivals in the family, and it takes something big (like living in Korea!) to keep one of them away from that.