Family traditions are often centered around holidays, but it is also possible to create family traditions out of weekly routines. The traditions that are created out of weekly routines are ingrained so much deeper than the ones that are centered around holidays that the week just doesn’t feel right without those routines. One tradition that both Brenton’s and my family had was Friday night pizza night. Is it possible to start the weekend without pizza?
When I was little, we would make homemade pizza and split a coke between the five of us. I remember that she set the table with her fancy dishes, I almost remember it being her wedding china and using the stemware for splitting the coke. That was our family tradition for celebrating the weekend. As I grew up, appetites got bigger and just a little swallow of Coke wasn’t satisfying to the sweet tooth of three teenagers, my mom discovered $5 pizza from Little Ceasar’s Pizza. The China dishes got packed away while we were building a house and the fancy dishes meant we ate off off the corningware [sometimes] rather than off of paper plates. The boys had no interest in drinking out of stemware, but Mom and I still set the table with it. We had to do what we could to keep them civilized.
I’ve always kept this family tradition in mind while I am making my weekly menu. For a long time I struggled with incorporating pizza night into our weekly routine. We don’t have Little ceasars and their $5 pizza, so I wanted to do homemade (versus paying $20 for a pizza meal). I was stuck in a pepperoni rut and I hated the cost of packaged pepperoni.
About a month ago, I checked out a pizza recipe book from the library. I was looking for ideas for different toppings. Brenton read the book and took over cooking for pizza night! He doesn’t give himself much credit, but my husband is an excellent cook, and what better tradition to celebrate the weekend and date night than to let my husband cook pizza for our family.
What’s your family tradition for celebrating the weekend? Do you have any weekly traditions? I’m in search of more family traditions to incorporate in our lives.
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We’re Friday night pizza eaters as well!! Wow! It’s a great tradition, huh?