Family Traditions
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i know that my fam used to have fish frys every friday.
Every year *when my granny was a live* we used to go down to east Texas, and look at the land my GREAT GREAT grandfather bought from his master. Now, 160 years later, they have found out that it has a lot of natural resources *natural gas, and possibly oil*. Thus, why my politics are different from most.
We don't have any. My family is big as hell, (I got ten great-siblings on one side and I don't know the other side), but we don't like each other. Wish I can do something about it, but I can't take care of everyone.
I honestly can't think of a tradition I'd like to start cause I don't know any. The most simplest one would be to have a holiday dinner at my house every year or some shit, but I'd get the feeling it would only be me and everyone in my house. If that.
If I had my way I'd take the traditions of another family and put it in my house. If my family wants to join in, then fine. If they don't, I don't care.
Perhaps I see my family as full of shit
but we can't get together for a damn reunion I'll see you on a trial basis. I liked my other family better anyway.
I honestly can't think of a tradition I'd like to start cause I don't know any. The most simplest one would be to have a holiday dinner at my house every year or some shit, but I'd get the feeling it would only be me and everyone in my house. If that.
If I had my way I'd take the traditions of another family and put it in my house. If my family wants to join in, then fine. If they don't, I don't care.
Perhaps I see my family as full of shit
but we can't get together for a damn reunion I'll see you on a trial basis. I liked my other family better anyway.
My family and I gather once a month at one of our homes for supper. It simply a way to make sure we stay in contact and that we know each other is doing all right.
Every summer we also have a family picnic provided there is no rain.
Never thought of it as a tradition really. I guess it could be classified as such.
Peace
Every summer we also have a family picnic provided there is no rain.
Never thought of it as a tradition really. I guess it could be classified as such.
Peace
I don't know if these are considered tradition really but. . . . I talk to my three sisters everyday. . .no matter what.
Another thing is I always spend Thanksgiving at my father's house. He's a great cook so he insists on making everything; so me and my sisters come eat, laugh, and help my dad figure out how to use all the electronic gadgets that he has bought (crazy how every year he has something lol).
Another thing is any time someone graduates there's a restaurant in Chicago we always celebrate at. . we've been doing that for about the last ten years.
Another thing is I always spend Thanksgiving at my father's house. He's a great cook so he insists on making everything; so me and my sisters come eat, laugh, and help my dad figure out how to use all the electronic gadgets that he has bought (crazy how every year he has something lol).
Another thing is any time someone graduates there's a restaurant in Chicago we always celebrate at. . we've been doing that for about the last ten years.
On Christmas Eve, my family used to pile into our mini van and tour the city, looking at houses singing Christmas carols 
I know it's corny, but I can't wait to do it with my children... I also want to collect/build ornaments for Christmas every year with my children. The first Christmas, after Katrina, it felt really weird to decorate a tree without all of those old ornaments you used to keep from Christmases ago...
At Thanksgiving time, we also all attend the Bayou Classic in New Orleans...this Thanksgiving will be the same
I know it's corny, but I can't wait to do it with my children... I also want to collect/build ornaments for Christmas every year with my children. The first Christmas, after Katrina, it felt really weird to decorate a tree without all of those old ornaments you used to keep from Christmases ago...
At Thanksgiving time, we also all attend the Bayou Classic in New Orleans...this Thanksgiving will be the same
In my family we start celebrating everything at midnight. I call to wish people happy bday at midnight and we open christmas gifts at midnight as well.
another one is that every 4th of July (which is also Big Mommas Bday) we get together at the home she purchased from her master.
another one is that every 4th of July (which is also Big Mommas Bday) we get together at the home she purchased from her master.
My family just does the old regular stuff... Christmas/thanksgiving at someone's house.. I grew up with my grandma so for mother's day I usually go with her to meet up with her sisters (my great aunts) and have dinner, sometimes church, and then we go to my great grandmothers grave. We used to do Labor Day when my great grandmother was alive as a birthday celebration for her.
My family would always do the holiday get togethers and things when I was a child. I never wanted to go, I just wanted to stay home. I would told that I had to go and when I was grown, I could do what I wanted. So now, I make the family funerals and that's it. I don't like getting together with them so I don't. I started my own tradition, they finally stopped asking me so i did not have to say I am not coming.
I don't believe in FAMILY TRADITIONS.
I don't believe in FAMILY TRADITIONS.
Family picnics, holiday get togethers, family reunions, even those Sunday dinners at grandmas, they are all good and I miss them. You got to see family members you normally don't see. Maybe if familys could get back to these type gatherings kids would have a better sense of what life can and should be like.
I never looked at these events as traditional family gatherings but they are. I do wish my family members were closer we are all over the country. The holidays can sometimes be lonely.
We have a ton of traditions. One is that all of the women are great cooks. I want to pass that on to my daughters AND sons though. Also, no matter where any of my siblings is, we always are all together for our parents' anniversary. We cook for every "holiday" even if we are not really celebrating the holiday. The women in my family have a spa day every year for my mother's birthday
The traditions I've carried from my childhood to my children's childhood are the usual holiday stuff...Christmas & Thanksgiving dinners together. However, the summertime cookouts were some of my favorite memories, and that's what I've enjoyed sharing with my kids.
When I was young, my brothers and I would go to Cali and swim in my uncle's pool all summer. When I bought a house years ago, I bought one with a pool. And as my kids, and my brothers' kids grew up, we'd get together all the time, call the fam over and spend the day grillin & chillin...those were great times & parties...still are. There'd be half a dozen kids splashing around during the day...party Rated-G...the kids would leave in the evening...party rated XXX
When I was young, my brothers and I would go to Cali and swim in my uncle's pool all summer. When I bought a house years ago, I bought one with a pool. And as my kids, and my brothers' kids grew up, we'd get together all the time, call the fam over and spend the day grillin & chillin...those were great times & parties...still are. There'd be half a dozen kids splashing around during the day...party Rated-G...the kids would leave in the evening...party rated XXX
a couple of years ago, my family decided on Christmas we'll no longer eat the "traditional food" since Thanksgiving just passed and we'll be eating more on NYD (my mom makes black eyed peas every NYD), so we eat seafood and such on Christmas now. We used to go look at@ lights, but now someones always working Christmas or Christmas Eve. Before we moved, on 4th of July, we used to take over the corner of my grannys house and light up the street and railroad tracks with fireworks.
my family does the holiday gatherings during all the holidays bbq's during the summer and a big family reunion every summer. I really dont like going to most of the events but after reading some of the responses maybe i should cherrish these moments more.
is this the whole thing about if you eat the peas on new years day you will have good luck all year round. I guess my luck will be shitty because i will never touch those things.
You should doggish. I see so many people talk about how distant they are from their families.
It instills something for the lil ones yes. They can see a family unit. And children need to see that and as adults we NEED to experience it.
awwwww hahahaha
*cough* told u so 
I couldn't have said it better sis
Reading this makes me sad.
I can't believe how much I missed out on as a kid and how it didn't help me grow.
I can't believe how much I missed out on as a kid and how it didn't help me grow.
My grandmother started a tradition of the family getting together on New Years Eve for dinner. She would make Gumbo and of course other soul food dishes. Since her passing I have kept it up with my family. I / we have also started having an annual Craw fish boil, and family camp. We are now 10 years strong!!!!
is this the whole thing about if you eat the peas on new years day you will have good luck all year round. I guess my luck will be shitty because i will never touch those things.
That's where the tradition itself came from, but I don't think that's why we honor it (well my mother and myself) she just honors it b/c my daddy with have a conniption if he doesn't get his peas (but I'm not complaining lol)
I can think of a couple...None.
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My family is huge and we have a reunion every two years in different cities. My family in Atlanta is always together eating on sundays, for birthdays, holidays, or any other reason that we can think of. I love the fact that we get together all the time and are willing to help each other at a moments notice. I don't really know what it's like to not have family support, and for that I am thankful...
None.
[lonely]
*e-hugs* for Sean
eh hem This is how I feel about when my family gathers. It is a great feeling knowing that you at least have that in your life.
Some people have that opportunity and choose to allow work and other things to get in the way. I had a friend say to me more than once that he didn't have time to even call his mother.
She doesn't live that far from here. Sees her only on certain holidays. Regrets are a hell of a thing when it comes to family.Peace
going to jail, drinking and smoking cigarettes are the family traditions.