What is the first house you remember living in?

What did it smell like?

What did you want to be when you were seven?

Who told you that you could?

What meal did someone make for you when you were sick?

Could you make it now?

Who was your best friend before you were ten?

When did you last think about them?

What is a rule your family had that other families did not?

Do we still have it?

What is the best gift you ever got?

Where is it now?

Tell us about a time you got lost.

Who found you?

What song reminds you of being a kid?

Can you still sing the words?

What did your grandparents do for work?

What did they do for fun?

What was the scariest thing in your childhood bedroom?

Was it real?

What did you get in trouble for most?

Were they right?

What is a story about you that the family tells too often?

What part do they get wrong?

When did you first feel grown up?

Were you?

What was the best part of this week?

Did anyone else notice it?

What is taking up the most room in your head right now?

Does it deserve the room?

What did you eat today that you would eat again?

Who made it?

What is something you are good at that nobody asks you about?

Show us.

What made you laugh this week?

Out loud, or just inside?

What is one thing you are tired of?

What would it take to stop?

Who did you help this week?

Did they know?

What is something small that went right today?

What if it had not?

What are you looking forward to?

What are you dreading?

What is the last thing you changed your mind about?

Who changed it?

If you had one free hour tomorrow, what would you do with it?

What will you actually do?

What is something you learned this week?

Who could you teach it to?

What would make tomorrow easier?

Who at this table could do it?

What is something this family does that you hope never changes?

Who started it?

When was the last time someone here surprised you?

In a good way?

What does this family argue about most?

Who usually wins?

Who in this family are you most like?

Do they agree?

What is something you wish we did more of?

What would we do less of to make room?

What is a job in this house that nobody thanks anyone for?

Thank them now.

Say one thing you admire about the person on your left.

Now the person on your right.

What is the hardest thing about being in this family?

What is the best?

What is a word or phrase only this family uses?

Where did it come from?

When did this family handle something hard well?

What did we do differently that time?

What is something you have never told the people at this table?

Why not?

What do you think the rest of us get wrong about you?

What do we get right?

If our family had a motto, what would it be?

Would you put it on the door?

Where do you want to be living in ten years?

Who is there with you?

What is something you want to learn before you are old?

What is stopping you this year?

What do you hope people say about you when you are not in the room?

What do they say now?

What is one trip this family should take?

What is the first step?

What do you want to be better at by this time next year?

How will we know?

What is something you are saving for?

Money, or something else?

What would you do with a whole year off?

What would you miss?

What one sentence would you send yourself in ten years?

Write it down. We’ll keep it.

What do you want to be true of this family when the kids are grown?

What is true of it now?

What is something you want to hand down?

An object, or a habit?

What is a worry you have about the future?

Who else at this table has it?

What would you want us to do on your hundredth birthday?

What should we do on your next one?

What question should be on the next card?

Ask it.