Traditions

It seems like this time of year we all start to focus on traditions. What our families do for each of the special holidays that come up. And it seems like the stranger the tradition the better - like how the girls in our family always wear sandals to Christmas Eve service for no other reason that we now live in Southern California and we can!

But sometimes it is the more year round traditions that cause the most laughter.

Growing up in Canada meant that both my husband and I grew up playing neighborhood hockey (both on ice and on the road) and loving it, all but living the season right long with our favorite teams, and being heart broken when they would get knocked out of the playoffs, assuming they made it! So we do try to share these things with our girls. I think hockey was one of the first things Miss Pear was actually aloud to watch on TV - after all, the Canadian Women won the gold medal last Olympics!

So this weekend there was a game on TV (rare in Southern CA), so we decided to watch it as a family fun thing. After all, we have to pass down the tradition of loving hockey! And as always it is the funniest things that children catch on to and that fascinates them. This time Miss Pear was fascinated with the concept of penalties and the penalty box. I think she was amazed that these big hockey players could be put on the big trouble chair just like her.....