Rockin Fridays

I love music. Music has such a way of allowing memories to be ingrained forever in our hearts. It also is such a great way to express our moods – you know, loud, heavy rock for our angry days – pop music for our bubbly days, and praise music for our reflective days?

One day I was taking my kids to school and we had one of our favorite CD’s playing in the car. My girls are very fond of music as well, and I wanted to just blare the music and enjoy it with them. So I yelled – “It’s ROCKIN FRIDAY!!” and I turned up the CD very, very loudly. They LOVED it!! They got excited and we all started singing at the top of our lungs. (Yes – we are probably that weird car that was next to you at the stoplight!)

Well – the next week, my girls prompted me – “Mom? Where’s our Rockin Friday?” And so began our tradition. They never let me forget a Friday and started pumping me for music as soon as we’d get into the car on Friday mornings. It has become a fun, and special tradition for us. It also showed me that even car times could become special family moments and memories. They can bond parents to children in special ways because of the confined space.

Most of us take our children to school on a regular basis – or at least pick them up. If your children ride the bus, I’m sure they are involved in some activity where you take them on a regular basis. Create special car traditions that get everyone excited about being together and allow you to share joy as a family in the process. I think you will discover – as I did – that something so simple, can develop into something so special.