I'm looking for some traditions to start in my family - and I'm looking more for everyday kind of traditions rather than Christmas traditions here.
2007-02-20 08:33:00 · 7 answers · asked by cldb730 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
Well I love this tradition. Every year on our birthdays my Mum would tell us all our birth stories. What was happening that day, who she was with, the labour, what music was playing when we were born, the PAIN everything. ITs so good to hear it every year, my brothers and I know them off by heart now. My brothers dont like it anymore, this happend when they were in their teens, but Mum says she went through all the pain to get us here so we have to listen.
I now do the same things with my daughters. And when I had my first daughter my brothers actually came to the hospital and tried to pick up nurses and had the cops called on them just so my daughter could have a cool birth story.
So yeah thats our speacial tradition. And because I've always heard my story, when I was a teen and able to understand the pain Mum went through to have me, I started buying her a thank you present for my birthday. To say thank you for having me. And now she takes my daughters out to buy me a thank you present for their birthdays.
2007-02-20 09:52:29 · answer #1 · answered by Monkey Magic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My boss is from a family of 12 kids. After the kids attend Mass on Sunday morning all 12 originals plus grands and even some great-grands hit mom's house for breakfast. He says it's like a soup line, wives and daughters participate and visit in kitchen. No set time of arrival, no set time to leave. Just family time.
Birthdays - Telling the story of their arrival from different points of view. A 6 AM wake up call that morning to sing Happy Birthday regardless how well you sing.
First day of summer - Family only picnic, frisbee, ball whatever, talk about what to look forward to during summer.
Before first day of school - (common) shopping trip together to get everything ready.
Easter - After all eggs are found, pock eggs. Opponents choose egg and then knock ends against one another gently. One who doesn't break wins.
Anything can be a tradition. If you want to sing "on top of spagetti" after a dinner of spagetti and meatballs.....go ahead, have fun and make it your own tradition!
2007-02-20 08:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by Denise D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was about 6 my sister (she's a lot older than me) got married and moved to a new house about 80 miles away. On the route is a pub called "The Fox". We always used to keep a look out for it, and tried to be the first person to see it, shouting "Fox, Fox Fox!!".
I'm now 47, my son is 14, and we still do it.
2007-02-20 08:42:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When my mom was a kid, her family had spaghetti every Sunday. I know it sounds a little odd, but its one of the things she remembers most when she was growing up. My family has annual traditions but no "everyday" kind of traditions. Sorry I cant help you out more.
2007-02-20 08:41:22 · answer #4 · answered by Amanda 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Night before easter we sat around the table and painted boiled eggs. There were eggs with bible verses, or paintings, or different color gradients of color wash all done in food color. Come dawn of Easter sunday, we went for church service with our contribution of painted eggs. After the service we stayed back and had hot cross buns, coffee/tea and eggs.
Weekends were get together time for our church group. We met at people's homes so that the elders and children all had their own fun. There were desert picnics with games planned for children and adults, moonlight picnics on the beach, movie night at the parks etc. We were a close group.
2007-02-20 18:36:43 · answer #5 · answered by RSJ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
me and my friends made some traditions like eating chirstmas dinner toghether and watching movies on that day and whoever birthday it was calling them at exactly 1200 am on the day of their birthday to see who would be the first to say happy birthday!
haha i think traditions are important and fun to keep
you could try having sunday dinner or maybe having like a special day of the year where you go on a trip and do something memorable
2007-02-20 09:13:42 · answer #6 · answered by teinegurl 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When i was little, wheneve it snowed my grandma would always go out and get a big bowl full of FRESH snow and put some sugar in it and vanilla in to the bowl, stir it up and TA-DA "snow icecream".......
2007-02-20 08:39:23 · answer #7 · answered by dessy-lou 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋