Family traditions...

Luckie519

What are some family traditions you and your family do?  I am not necessarily talking about holiday traditions, just in general.

Most of the traditions we do are things my mom and dad did with us when we were kids.  Just curious other little things people do with their family.

 

Luckie519

CTGirl30:

Most of ours are linked to holidays but DH and I have always made a big deal of our Sunday dinners. We make a nicer

Smootchy

Like eating dinner together?

We try/want that to be a tradition but DH is going to school, so sadly this is impossible at the moment. Although, we do try.

For easter we have an egg war. When I was growing up there was no other way to crac

Luckie519

I was curious more about every day traditions, because around Christmas we discussed holiday traditions.  There are just certain things I remember doing with my parents growing up, like the family dinners.

My mom and I planted a garden every

Nita2603

Hm, let's see: there are family dinners.
We try to do big family breakfasts on weekends.
We walk the dog together in the woods every day we can. The kids go every day with at least one parent though.
We will do one gift opening at Christ

Luckie519

Nita2603:

Hm, let's see: there are family dinners. We try to do big family breakfasts on weekends. We walk the dog together

NotSharknado

Other than holidays, just small stuff.

Each birthday I make a cake for them and at the exact time of their birth, we sing happy birthday. Thank god they were born at normal times.

There's other stuff but I'm blanking. I'm the wor

lollitots

Hmmm, most of these just started on their own. We have family movie/game night every Friday. We are together (i.e. we turn off the lights and mom and dad actually sit through the kid movie).

When the kids first came home from the hospital we too

Nita2603

Oh, and there are more...
Grandpa takes the kids to their first haircut. And any haircut they want after.
I know we have others but I cannot think of them right now.

bumpuser260585

It's a holiday, but every October we go camping for a Halloween Campout. We decorate our campsites, carve pumpkins and the kids dress up and trick or treat around the campground. My parents and their friends started it when I was young, now the campgrou

Smootchy

Luckie519:

I was curious more about every day traditions, because around Christmas we discussed holiday traditions.nbsp; There are

Nita2603

Luckie519:

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numeria11

For Birthdays - I made a wreath and banner that we will use every year for birthdays that will be up when they wake up.  It's something a friend's mom did that I thought was a cute idea.  Now that she's old enough this year it will be what sp