GTKY: Family Traditions

PandaCon · May 2014

Been a while since we have done a GTKY so...

What Family Traditions do you do that you can't wait to share with your LO?

PandaCon · May 2014

My family is big into Christmas.

Christmas Eve is church with just us. (Kids Ministry Director so it's important to me!)

Christmas day with my family is huge. Brunch, 2-3 hours of present opening, games, dinner. Relaxed and fun.

Christmas on the farm (DH's fam) is lunch and lots of presents. Grandma (86) still buys 3-5 presents for each child, grandchild and great-grandchild. She has around 50 people that se does this for. It's awesome!

I also love to do a Christmas light tour at least once near Christmas!

MrsC430 · May 2014

My family is big into summertime - beach trips, hosting BBQs & pool parties, camping. I'm excited for our LOs to join in!

jlove253 · May 2014

My In laws are huge on traditions, which I love. The next ones coming up are: 1) every Memorial Day we help maintain DH's grandparents home and yard. DH's grandpa is very handicapped and has been for a while. They have land we get back into shape and chores we do. It's not the funnest tradition, but it's good bondig usually. And I'll get the easy jobs this year

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2) camping!! Every year we go to the place FIL has been going since he was a teen. It's the place FIL proposed to MIL. I love camping and the down time with family is awesome. And last year camping dd really flourished.

AnnieRoo13 · May 2014

My DH and I are big into Christmas too. For some reason DH feels the need to Griswold out house up at Christmas time even though we don't have any kids (until now!) we have excessive lights, light up candy canes, signs, a giant polar bear and essentially the biggest tree we can fit into our tiny house. We actually move furniture out of our house to get the tree in front of our big street facing window. I am very excited to share all of our Christmas ridiculousness with the LO and maybe make it more ridiculous since we will actually have an excuse for our festiveness.

brooklyngirl18 · May 2014

christmas eve is the one that really stand out in my mind. My mom's side of the family is italian so christmas eve is all about a big fish dinner including my favorite dish ever- shrimp parm. last year was the first year without my grandma so it was sad but me and mom will continue the tradition and i hope to pass it down to my children as well. christmas day is almost an afterthought

DoubleUp8 · May 2014

My family has a camp (cabin) on a lake. DH and I got married in the town where the camp is. I have been going to the area since I was 6 months old to a place my grandparents had until several years ago. My dad started going when her was in high school. I can not wait to share such a special place with our baby!

momtojad · May 2014

This is actually really hard because we are still shaping ours. My husband is from another country and grew up very different than I did so we are really trying to make our own traditions that work for us.

pennyandandy · May 2014

We are still trying to figure out our own little family traditions. We do host a big 4th of July party every year-we live in the country, so we can light whatever fire works we want.

And for Christmas we do our own little family Christmas the weekend before because we go home to our parents' houses for actual Christmas.

We have our own little weekly family traditions-we have Family Movie Night every Friday with pizza and popcorn, and Sunday after church we have a nice lunch.

ssstephanie214 · May 2014

my parents paid off the house where i grew up in florida a few years ago. my sister and i told them it was really important to us, we love that house so much. i can't wait to take my kid(s) there and i'm hoping it stays in the family forever. it's so beautiful and like 10 minutes from the beach.

other than that, i'm hoping to adopt my boyfriend's traditions, especially if it includes thanksgiving. my family was never very big on holidays and my mom doesn't cook. but thanksgiving food is my favorite, i've been craving that shit every morning

Nfranco973 · May 2014

Thanksgiving... Big dinner cooked by everyone ( each person cooks one dish or 2) camping in the summer, fishing trips with the kiddos, 4th of July BBQ's at the beach... Pink Moscato on ice (oh sorry wishful thinking)

lincoln79 · May 2014

we have moved around so much since we got married and the last four years have been so focused around all the medical treatments to have a child, that mh and i haven't really started a lot of traditions.

thanks for the post because this makes me want to discuss this with mh!

in general, attending church every Sunday is a huge part of our lives together. i am already planning our baby's baptism service in my head!

NunyaBennis · May 2014

Trick-or-Treat! My parents live on an amazing street for candy grabbing and my sister & I both live on not-so-good roads so we hand out candy with my mom. She makes a big pot of soup or chili, and all the neighbors bring out lawn chairs to the ends of their driveways. We all eat, then sit around chit-chatting and sharing candy. There's 200-250 kids that come through every year!

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