Tradition!

The cooler the air gets, the more our family traditions come to mind.  Summer is too relaxed for our already loosey goosey family for a lot of traditions, though I suppose that could be a tradition in and of itself. 
Most "normal" families tend to think of traditions being related to the "big deal" holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  And we have a lot of those, from using my good china for Thanksgiving dinner to our annual trip to the Kristkindle Market for chocolate dipped marshmallows and a visit with Santa near Christmas.
To me though, it's the little traditions that matter.  Every Friday our family has cheap, grocery store pizza and pop in the living room while we watch Wizards of Waverly Place together.  Sundays, we go to Mass as a family, then the grammar school age kids attend religious ed and Mike and I hit McDonalds and a local discount store along with whichever kid doesn't have class.  Those surprisingly beautiful days, when it hits 70 in March for no good reason, we hit the zoo.  On birthdays, we have the favorite meal of the guest of honor.  Even if it's peanut butter and jelly on Eggo waffles (which is actually remarkably tasty, for the record).
We ut so much emphasis on tradition sometimes, that I think we miss out on the best ones.