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Thursday, May 14, 2009

While growing up

what is the one tradition that your parents did with you that you hope to continue with your own children? It does not have to be specifically holiday related, can be about anything!

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Its a short post tonight as I am late getting online (baby woke up) so I will announce the winner on Sunday!

19 comments:

Miranda said...

We have very strong family christmas traditions. The one that I still really secretly like is reading the Christmas story to the kids christmas eve. One year we couldn't find the book so between my brother and I we recited the entire book :) Its fun now to sit with my cousins and read it with them.

Red Charlotte said...

My parents always had us make brownies or cookies and bring them over to our new neighbors. We'd all walk as a family, some of us getting pulled in the wagon and introduce ourselves to the new people on the street. I want to do that with my neighbors when I have children. What a wonderful way to teach children to welcome newcomers.

Krystal said...

Just being with family... didn't matter what we did. But half the time we were all stuffed in my mother's small kitchen all making and cooking different foods and sat down together, gave thanks and ate. It was the one time of year we spent together, not fighting (besides my mother yelling to get out of her kitchen since it was so small) but spending quality time talking and eating.

D... said...

I would say this is more of a lesson .. My mom taught us the importance of family and I felt she kept us innocent ..Children are always listening to "adult" conversations etc..I was always told to go to my room or another room whenver she had company and they were having "talks"..it use to upset me then..but i grew up to understand. A child should not have to worry about adult matters. Lots of children these days talk about money , family gossip etc.. we didnt hear any of it for a long time.I would also like to raise my children this way.

trying1009 said...

Dinner as a family every night. I've done that every since I got married. I hope to contiune that when we have our family.

Candy218 said...

My parents would always have big warm breakfast on the weekends. During the week everyone was everywhere and we'd have toast or a beagle. We knew when the weekend would come we'd all be there and we'd have a nice warm breakfast. Eggs, bacon, pancakes.....whatever. Even now when I visit on the weekends we still have breakfast. I would like to continue that.

Jodi said...

we have a lot of *traditions* in our family - pajamas on christmas, who sees the first robin/hummingbird/oriole/etc - thanksgiving grace with what we are grateful for... a lot of stuff.
but the one sticking out prominantly right now is May Day (May 1st). i couldn't tell you how young i was when it first started - but on May day we always picked a bouquet of flowers, hung them on my Gram's door, knocked and hid to watch her find it. since i now live a few hundred miles away from her, and she's still kicking at almost 90 - i make sure that she has a bouquet of flowers delivered on May Day....(plus my own mom now....)

Jodi said...

we have a lot of *traditions* in our family - pajamas on christmas, who sees the first robin/hummingbird/oriole/etc - thanksgiving grace with what we are grateful for... a lot of stuff.
but the one sticking out prominantly right now is May Day (May 1st). i couldn't tell you how young i was when it first started - but on May day we always picked a bouquet of flowers, hung them on my Gram's door, knocked and hid to watch her find it. since i now live a few hundred miles away from her, and she's still kicking at almost 90 - i make sure that she has a bouquet of flowers delivered on May Day....(plus my own mom now....)

Anonymous said...

I remember summer family trips as a girl that were so exciting and fun.
I hope to have some family trips like these with my kids someday
JulieAnn

Anonymous said...

We never really had any traditions, my family was more spur of the moment. But one thing I loved doing was going camping. My grand parents took us camping every year, then when my grandpa died, my dad took us. I will never forget those trips. Going to Devils Den, and nearly all the caverns in Arkansas. It is something I want to share with my kids, as well as my nephew. But like I said we were spur of the moment, we wouldn't even know we were going until they would pick us up from school with our bags in the truck. It was so exciting to be surprised as to where we were going to end up at the end of the night.

Kat B. said...

My family is Polish so we celebrate Christmas Eve as "the big Christmas holiday". We have a fish dinner with my whole family and open gifts afterward before going to Mid-Night mass in both Polish and English. It's my absolute favorite tradition and I cannot wait to share it with my children.

Anonymous said...

On Christmas morning, we all had to get up together and could not go downstairs to see what Santa brought until we were all up together (all 6 of us!!!)

Sandy

felsha said...

My parents did not have any traditions. I come from a broken family. Now, I have my sister, but I always tried to make sure they had a christmas that I have never had since I was younger. I have worked since I was 11 & had alsways bought them bikes & toys, clothes, & other itwems that I ahd always wished I had. I continue to do that today. Even when I was poor & going to school, I still tried just as much & continue to do so today.

felsha said...

My parents did not have any traditions. I come from a broken family. Now, I have my sister, but I always tried to make sure they had a christmas that I have never had since I was younger. I have worked since I was 11 & had alsways bought them bikes & toys, clothes, & other itwems that I ahd always wished I had. I continue to do that today. Even when I was poor & going to school, I still tried just as much & continue to do so today.

Missy said...

It's a very small thing actually, but I always loved it and hope that when my children are old enough we can continue the tradition. Every May Day my mom and dad and I (I am an only child) would go picking the wild flowers that had just bloomed and make tiny paper baskets and leave them on all the neighbors door handles. My parents and I did this until I was about 16! LOL! I loved it, it was nice to get to see and small all those pretty new flowers and I got to make someone happy by leaving flowers on their door. But the best part was spending time with my goofy father and my loving mother. I will cherish it forever! I am very excited to start this with my children, they will most likely be old enough next May Day! I cannot wait!

I was fun reading entries! :)

zakia said...

I remember every weekend we have to share about our experience and whets going on with our lives I will definitely continue with this with my kids.

Carissa said...

Each fall when the leaves would begin to turn colors, we would take a two hour trip to a small town with an apple orchard. Along the way we would look at the beautiful trees. Once we got to the orchard, we would go on a hayride, pick apples, and pick out the perfect pumpkins. I hope to continue this when I have children.

Kimberley said...

I hope I'm not too late! Every couple of months my dad would come and pick me up from school to take me for lunch. I always loved those days and would love to be able to do the same for my kids.

frenchpiggy1 said...

One of my favorite memories is of my grandfather. We would go over to his house at least once a month on a sunday and go "get lost" as he used to call it. We would all pile in the car, never knowing where we would end up. The ocean, mountains, zoo, aquarium, picnic in the park. It was a special time where we got to get to know eachother better and hear stories from my grandparents about them growing up.