While Tess served as St Lucy this morning I thought back over so many, many cinnamon rolls served by braided little girls in our home. It takes a little extra planning to remember to pick up the rolls and set out some white clothes but as Charlotte Seims' words reminded me in my morning reading:

"Traditions create a sense of belonging and comfort. Children relish those things that 'we always do,'  and the once-a-year foods and décor call up a sense of wonder and excitement like nothing else."

Like nothing else, truly.  It's not the once in a lifetime big events, but the repetition of little things year after year that brings so much delight.  It's what we always do in our family on this day and it is wonderful.  I like to think it is as comforting to them as it is to me to slip into a groove laid down over the course of so many years.