cshoremom
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“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ― Mother Teresa
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Post by cshoremom on Nov 22, 2017 14:48:07 GMT -5
Wishing all of you a wonderfully joy-filled and memorable day!
What's your favorite tradition???
I started one many years back, with passing around our "Grateful Journal" We write in it what we are thankful for the past year. The kids writing is so funny. I think DS2 was about 5 when we started. Sad, too, because Dad, my sister and my Aunt wrote in there for many years. Bittersweet I guess. Nice keepsake from years past.
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Post by kidsandpets on Nov 23, 2017 23:13:02 GMT -5
What a neat tradition! So many special times and memories recorded in there, even if some are bittersweet and sad.
I haven't really had true traditions.
As a kid, me and my brother kind of had our own - we would await Thanksgiving dinner by watching a cartoon movie called "The Mouse and the Mayflower" (my kids watched it today!) and then play on my neighbor's big trampoline when we went up to take care of their goats and dog while they were out of town. After dinner we got to decorate our rooms and the basement for Christmas (Mom wouldn't do the rest of the house until December 1st). I remember doing it this way at least a few years. Good memories!
We may have started a new tradition this year by bringing our cider press to the Thanksgiving gathering of my DH's family. His family, as many as can get there (usually all or almost all) gather on Thanksgiving Day. Most of us live locally but my SIL's family comes up about 5 hours and one of DH's cousins family comes about 2 hours - both have to go over mountain passes. We've been doing this a long time now so its a great tradition in itself. This year we made apple cider with our press - I don't think any of the kids (besides mine) had ever made cider nor had several of the adults. Provided the weather is decent, we'll probably do that next year too. (Weather can be cold and wet or snowy or like today sunny and warm.)
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