Does any one out there have any Holiday traditions they would like to share? I just love to hear how other people celebrate any holiday will be fine
2006-06-20 16:16:42 · 7 answers · asked by TINKERBELLE 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
We make gingerbread houses at Christmas.
Thanksgiving: we pass a dryed ear of corn around and pick off a kernal of corn and say something we are thankful for. We continue passing it until the ear is empty of kernals.
Birthdays: We make a treasure hunt with clues for the presents for young and old. We also always have a birthday pie of their choice. we just prefered pie over cake. We also went out to eat at the honoree's choice of restaurant.
Tooth fairy: The tooth fairy never competed in our family with other kids amounts of money they recieved. In our home, the toothe fairy always brought with the first tooth lost, a world map and a few coins from a country she had last visited children in. I recieved coins from Germany, Nigeria, Austrailia, Guana, Thailand, Japan, India, Russia, and even glass trading beads (wampum) from Native Americans. My friends thought this was much cooler than their many dollars they recieved!
St. Patrick's day--our family would be little elfs or leprechans and go do a good deed for someone in our nieghborhood. Like taking out their trash if it was trash day, wash their car windows, leave a baked treat or sweep their walkway.
Valentine's Day--we always made homemade cards for our immediate family members. Our mom would buy ribbons, material, stickers and doilies. We would get old, free wallpaper books from home depot too. This would take hours but we still have most of the valentines.
Weekly--Every Sunday our family would have a family meeting or gathering and we would all bring our schedules for the upcoming week. Our parents would coordinate their schedules and decide who was attending what kid's activities and who was driving us wherever we needed to go. Also, each week, the kids would report on what we were doing in school and our favorite things that happened during the week and also tell about any special help we needed or recieved. At the end of our meeting, we would write a short letter to one of our grandparents and alternate it each week on who was writing to who. Our parents would also get out the TV guide from the newspaper and we would discuss what programs we would watch in the coming week. TV wasn't something that just got flipped on. It was only turned on when it had a purpose--even if for sheer entertainment. We were always too busy for it anyway. We built things, fished, studied etc...
2006-06-20 23:47:36 · answer #1 · answered by ikwya 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When my kids were very small, I thought Thanksgiving dinner would be a much more thankful affair if everyone had what they liked most. So, in addition to turkey and/or ham, everyone got to choose two side dishes and one dessert and we would make them all -- no matter what they were. We had some pretty strange combos when they were little, which sometimes included french fries or pizza, but it became a great tradition that continued.
When I divorced their dad and they were teen & preteens, I didn't want them to have to choose with whom they would have Thanksgiving dinner, so I made a radical change: we started having Thanksgiving breakfast! We have everything anyone could possibly want for breakfast, they're free to have a guilt-free turkey dinner with their dad or boyfriend's family -- and best of all -- I have a kitchen that's clean by noon and the rest of the day to myself!!!
For birthdays instead of a bunch of gifts, we all go out to eat wherever the birthday girl wants to go and invite boyfriends and close friends to join us. It's always a great, noisy, fun time.
2006-06-20 23:27:04 · answer #2 · answered by bikerpjb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate my birthday, and all the major holidays alone, no family fights, feuds etc to deal with, just more peace
2006-06-20 23:20:18 · answer #3 · answered by dahorndogd013 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was growing up my mom used to bake all kinds of cookies to give to friends and neighbors, so now I do the same thing with my daughter. People love homemade treats and don't always have time to make them.
2006-06-21 15:39:57 · answer #4 · answered by dawno 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A holiday means getting up late , lazing around & partying in the evening
2006-06-21 03:46:59 · answer #5 · answered by Lulu 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We got rid of ours. It's kinda sad but it's also liberating because we can build new ones. Hmmm, maybe we should get around to doing that .
2006-06-27 23:03:47 · answer #6 · answered by cboni2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On Valantine's day I get sad and mopey. *teehee* And we always eat every bit of candy the first night on Halloween! Lol!
2006-06-22 02:14:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋