Your family traditions?
Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:51 am
Have any little traditions that run in your family? I have a few.
Every morning, my dad wakes me up and asks if I want breakfast, even though he knows I get sick if I eat too early. Also, whenever my parents go out, my brother and I watch at least one Miyazaki movie, then local news. We're not allowed to watch it when they're home
How about you?
Every morning, my dad wakes me up and asks if I want breakfast, even though he knows I get sick if I eat too early. Also, whenever my parents go out, my brother and I watch at least one Miyazaki movie, then local news. We're not allowed to watch it when they're home
How about you?
Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:58 am
um... we take our Christmas tree down on New years day.
We always have pancakes when my dad isn't home for supper.
We always have pancakes when my dad isn't home for supper.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:24 am
Um.... oh wait, I just remembered a few. These are like all-family, not just in-the-house-family. 
Every summer (around July 24th) we go camping for a few days up in the mountains in Utah. And then on the 24th, we go back down and watch the Fireworks that happen. 'Tis fun.
And we go back down to Granny's for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter if we can... living in California does make it a bit hard though.
Every summer (around July 24th) we go camping for a few days up in the mountains in Utah. And then on the 24th, we go back down and watch the Fireworks that happen. 'Tis fun.
And we go back down to Granny's for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter if we can... living in California does make it a bit hard though.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:36 am
Hmmm, the only real tradition my family has would be that every march break we go to Sunday River for the week.
Which is the only place in US I've ever really been.
Which just reminded me that march breaks less than a week away
Which is the only place in US I've ever really been.
Which just reminded me that march breaks less than a week away
Last edited by Khristian on Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:46 am, edited 1 time in total.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:45 am
I've been thinking and thinking and I've finally got one! Not really a tradition just something that always happens.
My mom once bought a little calendar that counted down from Dec. 1st to Christmas Eve. And each date was a pocket, so you would move this fabric candy cane to a different pocket each day. And every morning my brother would move the candy cane to Dec. 24th, no matter what day it was. (So now the pocket of the 24th is stretched out, heh heh.)
Sort of sad, but this year my mom and I moved to an apartment and my brother moved in with my dad. So I had the move the candy cane to the 24th pocket. It just felt so weird doing that...
Eh. Can't think of any other traditions. Oh, except for Christmas at my cousin's house. But I never really thought of that as a tradition.
My mom once bought a little calendar that counted down from Dec. 1st to Christmas Eve. And each date was a pocket, so you would move this fabric candy cane to a different pocket each day. And every morning my brother would move the candy cane to Dec. 24th, no matter what day it was. (So now the pocket of the 24th is stretched out, heh heh.)
Sort of sad, but this year my mom and I moved to an apartment and my brother moved in with my dad. So I had the move the candy cane to the 24th pocket. It just felt so weird doing that...
Eh. Can't think of any other traditions. Oh, except for Christmas at my cousin's house. But I never really thought of that as a tradition.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:14 am
We only put up Christmas lights on odd years.
If your birthday's on a school day, you open up one present before school and the rest after.
You can choose any restraunt you want to eat at for your 13th birthday.
My Aunt Debbie and Uncle Willie come over for a few days every Fourth of July and/or Christmas.
If your birthday's on a school day, you open up one present before school and the rest after.
You can choose any restraunt you want to eat at for your 13th birthday.
My Aunt Debbie and Uncle Willie come over for a few days every Fourth of July and/or Christmas.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:13 am
None apart from celebrating christmas (as a commercial holiday, none of that religion stuff).
Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:12 am
Christmas:
We put up the Christmas tree the day before Thanksgiving, and it stays up until New Years.
On Christmas Eve, we all go to my aunt's house (especially hard last year, due to a freak blizzard).
We eat first, and then open presents youngest to oldest.
And then comes the stocking game, which is the best part of Christmas!
Stocking Game:
Beforehand, my aunt makes a stocking for everyone, each stocking has the same number of small individually wrapped gifts (lots of bath stuff, candy, sometimes jewelry, etc.) but we have to play the game to open the stuff!
We use the questions from the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire board game. The game itself is weird and stupid, and we've never bothered to try to play it the right way. We just use the question cards instead.
We go around the room, in no particular order, just circular from where everyone's sitting. When it's your turn, she asks you a question and gives you the four choices.
If you answer correctly, you get to open one thing from your stocking. If you get it wrong, then too bad =P
We continue like that until someone has gotten everything in their stocking unwrapped. It's usually fun because my grandmother always tries to help everyone answer their questions, even when we tell her not to XD
Whoever gets everything opened first, gets taken to my aunt's bedroom, to choose a grand prize. (there's one for everyone, but some are cooler than others). I won one year, and my prize was a gift basket she made containing a 6-pack of Sprite, and a bunch of snacks and candy.
The game continues, and the second person to open everything gets to choose their prize, and so on and so forth.
It's funnnnn!
Also, all of the big kids and adults get ALL of their presents on Christmas Eve, but the little kids get gifts from Santa in the morning too =P
**thinks**
It's hard to have family traditions now, because everyone's grown up and moved away, so we really only all get together at the Holidays.
When I was little, we had Sunday traditions, it was awesome.
Sundays:
Mum would wake all four of us up, and we'd have cinnamon rolls, and then she'd send us off to church. While we were at church, she'd go out to breakfast with my grandmother and my aunt.
Then when us kids would get home, she'd have spaghetti or lasagna made. And we'd all eat.
In the afternoon, dad's buddies would come over, and they'd all go up to the attic and play pool. We always hoped his friend Robert would come, because when he did, he'd bring his daughter Connie, and she was cool.
So then in the evening, we'd all hang out and play games and run wild. When the weather was nice, we'd usually end up running wild through the neighbourhood. It was awesome.
And it usually ended with hide and seek (in the dark!). And then we'd all collapse in front of the TV and at least a couple of us would fall asleep.
Good times.
**mourns for childhood**
We put up the Christmas tree the day before Thanksgiving, and it stays up until New Years.
On Christmas Eve, we all go to my aunt's house (especially hard last year, due to a freak blizzard).
We eat first, and then open presents youngest to oldest.
And then comes the stocking game, which is the best part of Christmas!
Stocking Game:
Beforehand, my aunt makes a stocking for everyone, each stocking has the same number of small individually wrapped gifts (lots of bath stuff, candy, sometimes jewelry, etc.) but we have to play the game to open the stuff!
We use the questions from the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire board game. The game itself is weird and stupid, and we've never bothered to try to play it the right way. We just use the question cards instead.
We go around the room, in no particular order, just circular from where everyone's sitting. When it's your turn, she asks you a question and gives you the four choices.
If you answer correctly, you get to open one thing from your stocking. If you get it wrong, then too bad =P
We continue like that until someone has gotten everything in their stocking unwrapped. It's usually fun because my grandmother always tries to help everyone answer their questions, even when we tell her not to XD
Whoever gets everything opened first, gets taken to my aunt's bedroom, to choose a grand prize. (there's one for everyone, but some are cooler than others). I won one year, and my prize was a gift basket she made containing a 6-pack of Sprite, and a bunch of snacks and candy.
The game continues, and the second person to open everything gets to choose their prize, and so on and so forth.
It's funnnnn!
Also, all of the big kids and adults get ALL of their presents on Christmas Eve, but the little kids get gifts from Santa in the morning too =P
**thinks**
It's hard to have family traditions now, because everyone's grown up and moved away, so we really only all get together at the Holidays.
When I was little, we had Sunday traditions, it was awesome.
Sundays:
Mum would wake all four of us up, and we'd have cinnamon rolls, and then she'd send us off to church. While we were at church, she'd go out to breakfast with my grandmother and my aunt.
Then when us kids would get home, she'd have spaghetti or lasagna made. And we'd all eat.
In the afternoon, dad's buddies would come over, and they'd all go up to the attic and play pool. We always hoped his friend Robert would come, because when he did, he'd bring his daughter Connie, and she was cool.
So then in the evening, we'd all hang out and play games and run wild. When the weather was nice, we'd usually end up running wild through the neighbourhood. It was awesome.
And it usually ended with hide and seek (in the dark!). And then we'd all collapse in front of the TV and at least a couple of us would fall asleep.
Good times.
**mourns for childhood**
Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:25 am
Hmm, I was trying to think, but we don't really have many family traditions. The only one that my mother and I usually go to the movie theater on christmas day, although we didn't go this past one because there wasn't anything good out.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:42 am
Swinging fire every sunday night.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:47 pm
Sapphire Faerie, that stocking game sounds really fun! I have that silly board game as well, never thought about turning it into a way to open up your stockings.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:23 pm
Everyone always tells me that. You should try it!
Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:30 pm
Every July 4th we go to a ceremony honoring my 7th great grandfather who signed the DoI.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:52 pm
:3 You can celebrate your 13th and 16th birthdays however you want to.
My 13th just happened to be a day I was mad at my parents... 
$200,000 in expenses... but it was a great party.
My 13th just happened to be a day I was mad at my parents... $200,000 in expenses... but it was a great party.
Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:05 am
No traditions over here.