Routine & Social Aesthetics

I am interested in the way that values and how we define them comes into play when discussing routines and what the every day life truly consists of.  In the very beginning of the essay Highmore asks "Can domestic routines become precious moments... or do their rhythms constantly signal their lack of value?"  and furthermore he asks how can we call attention to these non-events without, in fact, making them events?  I think this question of whether or not a rhythmic activity, a routine activity, has any value is an interesting one because it directly relates to how we look at every day activities, especially those of routine.  If these activities do have value, how do we recognize them without making them the 'event' rather than the ordinary routine.  If we look at this through Giard's lens of 'doing cooking,' it is hard then to attribute recognition and praise to these acts of "ordinary intelligence" that women perform everyday, because they are supposed to be viewed as non-events, as routines, how do we recognize them without changing what they are entirely, and what would it mean if we did?
As I kept reading, I started to think further about why it is necessary for us to even make the distinction between routines and events.  Couldn't the every day in itself be a totality, a coming together of the events and routines that make up our day to day lives?  Also, how are we to define these terms event and routine, and who's responsibility is it to define them?
I was also interested in the idea of memory and reminiscence, both appearing throughout the Highmore reading, especially in the context of doing cooking.  He states, "Remembering and reminiscence are simultaneous with the practicalities of cooking and eating.  Flavours and smells conjure the textures of an intimately experienced past: joy and unhappiness, love and anxiety are the secret cargo of cooking."  It's interesting to me the way the routine and the particular events here come together in the form of a memory.  Maybe the event of this memory didn't seem special at the time, and may have even presently come about in the form of a routine, but has since been remembered as something significant, which speaks to the temporality of the every day as an object.  Can events and routines both be signified as something else at different moments in time?  Or different contexts even?  Memory and temporality then may serve a big role in defining an event or a routine as such.