Frame Your Photo Ops

Designate activities for the first day of each season: In the fall, rake leaves; spring, plant flowers; summer, catch fireflies; winter, go ice-skating. Take a photo of your kids (or of yourself and your spouse) doing each of these activities and, at the end of the year, fill four-window picture frames with the snapshots and send them to long-distance relatives.

Tour the World

Adopt a holiday from another country and honor it with gusto. Prepare a massive traditional Chinese feast for Chinese New Year; eat crepes and watch classic French films on Bastille Day.

Stage a Repeat Engagement

Return to the site of your engagement each year on your anniversary. Or, if the proposal took place in a destination too far away to revisit annually, set a similar scene in your home. (Cook pasta and put Pavarotti on the stereo for an Italian proposal, say.)

Walk On

Go for a (moderately) challenging hike with your family every January 1. Even if your resolutions don’t make it past February, you’ll have started the year on a healthy note — and the exercise does wonders for a Champagne hangover.