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The Welcome Wagon has rolled into town!
Question for everyone:
what family traditions have you continued to practice
what family traditions have you continued to practice
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Hi desertrat – welcome! Psst, froggy, I left some cheesecake over in the cafe for you.
Hi froggy and welcome desertrat!
Nice if newbies introduce themselves.
I’ve been around this site since the beginning. Norwegian, though living abroad for 20+ years – most of that time here in the US.
As to family traditions carried on; not too many, but I wrote a diary entry about one of them (Christmas Eve playlist – No Christmas without Jussi Björling) not too long ago. I can vividly recall the same pieces being played in my childhood home.
We’ve continued the long family history of blogging.
It all started back in 1896 with Phineas Boran and his blog entitled DailyPhineas. (Sorry, no link.) Using a Compaq 186 running at .2 megaherz purchased from the Sears catalogue, Phineas was one of the early pioneers of the tubes. His observations and reflections about daily life brought him fame and fortune, enabling him to upgrade to the then capacious .5 megabytes of Ram.
And so we continue to uphold the blogging tradition today.
Other than that, and in addition to religious traditions, there is a the family tradition of meeting each October in Cape May, New Jersey for a weekend. It’s fun for all of us to get together and enjoy each other’s company and the town’s Victorian astmosphere.
Most of our family traditions center aroud the holidays at the end of the year. The ones that don’t involve being an incorrigible smartass, that is.
But it’s not so much that I’m continuing the tradition as that those portions of the family that were disfunctional when I was younger continue to be disfunctional today, ocasionally in new and spectacular ways, and I continue to be related to them.
Well, it being Lent for the vast majority of my Catholic family, we’ve been feasting on fish tacos each Friday. I’m also looking forward to our annual picnic at a nearby ranch for Easter. I’ll be enjoying a burrito of tripas de leche, can’t get more traditional than that š
Hi Manny, I remember Lent well from growing up Catholic-going to catholic schools for 10 years/church every morning for 8 years before school, fish on Friday’s, desperately wanting to become a nun…and how I ended up an atheist I guess would be a whole nother story.(and not particularly interesting at that) Enjoy your family and Easter feast Manny.
Black-eyed peas and collard greens on New Year’s Day. However, since I’m a vegetarian, I’ve found some more creative ways to cook them than my mother did.
We’ve always had black-eyed peas & cabbage. (For luck & money)
The family Passover Seder because it matters to my mom. It may be disorganized and a bit (well a lot) lacking in religious feeling but the family feeling is strong. And besides my sister’s charoset is yummy.