Magic moments to help us make it in business, without losing it at home.
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FIFTY SEVEN MOMENTS
Think about elements fire, water, wind and think of things around those elements
- Collect sticks logs or trees and have bonfires at home on the beach in open spaces. A fire always does something
- Sleeping out in the open - Joel's stag night was on the top of the cliffs at Portland - with a fire
- Sledges - dads you must make one and also learn the art of the plastic ba
- Sledge down stairs on tea trays
- Sleeping out in tents
- Sleep just in sleeping bags in the snow
- Fly kites of all sorts in the wind
- Use candles often
- Have a special place for kites, which you give your own name to (kite hill)
- Fishing on piers on mackerel boats on rivers
- Get a log fire at home and throw out your clinical clean gas replica
- Swim
- Build a tree house
- Sleep in the lounge in a tent made out of the tablecloth
- Throw stones at waves and even the odd seagull you'll never hit them
- Throw stones at logs you have also thrown in
- Play poo sticks wherever and whenever you can
- Go to the library together have fun saying ssshh very loudly several times
- Go rabbit hunting - real time with real guns
- Go rabbit hunting with a powerful torch(wrap them up in quilts and drag them from bed at midnight then back for hot chocolate and back to bed)
- Have a bed time song
- We put up rope ladders swings & climbing ropes from the ceiling of the boys room
- We have got into boats, from one that cost us £50 and sank to a catamaran which cost a bit more and which nearly lost me Joels life to the yacht which we have today.
- Make holidays memorable
- Have birthday traditions - balloons and streamers over the chair of honour
- Have other traditions; (red rose for my girls every valentines day even after they have got married & mum gets 12 the two granddaughters 3 years and 9 months also get one!)
- Biggest bonfire imaginable on November 5th
- Have speeches every now and then at special meals where every child gets to honour one of the others.
- Dads always fight your boys and some girls
- Play Clueso and Cato
- Play the A Team
- Have Christmas traditions that cost little so in the hard times you can still do it e.g.
- Mums special stuffings
- Dad's Christmas night Club Sandwiches
- Mum's little item sewed on new this year on the stocking
- Have friends round for overnights as often as you can cope with it
- Lay treasure trails when you have to go away for the kids to interact with postcards from your away destination
- Send your kids away (All of ours left by 18 and it was the making of them)
- Try to do surprises (Huge overseas trips just for one or small local surprises just one-on-one)
- Turn up unexpectedly for lunch at school and eat with them or whisk them off to MacDonald's
- Treat revision as work and pay them for their work
- Work together and pay them
- Make sure once or twice a year you have time away with just your spouse
- Have a "slob" evening, rent a fun video, buy popcorn, snuggle up on the sofa together and "slob" .
- Read your kids a story even if they are old, just make sure the book's a good one!
- Cook a meal together.
- Easter egg hunts every year with other families
- When you go on holiday go with other families
- Do something with them that they are better than you at
- Go horse riding or go-karting
- Do things with them that you are afraid of yourself
- Write poetry for them and with them
- Write a song with them
- Send them letters cards emails and talk to them on MSN
- Send a letter or card to school
- Take girls to the Hilton for coffee
- Dad's take the girls shopping even to find something for a fiver
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