What are your family traditions?

[reecejackox]

if any

as a kid it was to go to my grandmas every sunday.

 

[loves to dive]

zero, zilch, nada, ain't got nary a one.

 

[L&Lfan]

We had holiday traditions but other than Church every Sunday, I can’t think of any traditions outside of the holidays. If I think of any, I’ll add something.

 

[sasywtch]

Same as pp But we went t o my grandpa's every Sunday. My dad had 10 siblings and grew up on a dairy so they were very close. When my grandma died young, my grandpa sold the dairy and moved to a little house so every Sunday we were all there men playing poker, women cooking and us kids all playing to this day, all of the cousins are close

 

[Frozen Canuck]

We homeschool, so one of the traditions that we have is that we take everybody's birthday off from school if it falls on a weekday. It is one of the few times that I have seen kids hoping their birthday falls during the regular week instead of on a weekend.

We also celebrate Pie Day instead of (American) Thanksgiving. I have detailed the story on here before in more detail, but basically, being Canadians living in the US, we would celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in October, which left our American Thanksgiving Day wide open with nothing special going on. When our kids were young, my husband came home with a couple of Costco pies on the night before Thanksgiving. The kids asked if we were going to eat pie all day, and thus, a tradition was born. My husband told them they could have pie for every meal if they wanted, but only on that one day, so now we have Pie Day every year.

 

[L&Lfan]

I came up with two.
Every Saturday evening growing up, my Dad would grill steaks, potatoes and onions and we’d watch the Lawrence Welk Show together.
And every Sunday evening my parents would make homemade pizza and we’d watch Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color/The Wonderful World of Disney together.

This was from approximately 1965-1975. When we kids got in high school and had jobs we usually were out on Sat and Sun evenings, so the tradition faded...

But I can’t watch the Lawrence Welk Show today (PBS) without remembering my parents dancing around the den!

 

[RedAngie]

if any

as a kid it was to go to my grandmas every sunday.

Same, but we went more often. Almost every Friday evening was spent at my maternal grandparents' house. Watched The Brady Bunch, etc. there. On Sundays we took her to church at 10am (my grandfather went to the early Mass), then had brunch at her house. In the early afternoon we went to visit my paternal grandmother, then often took a ride somewhere to one of the few places that were open on Sundays. Restaurant for dinner, then back to maternal grandmother's for another hour of two. Usually saw Disney's Wonderful World of Color at her house.

 

[firefly_ris]

On Saturdays I spent the day at my paternal grandparents. On Sundays my mom and I took her mom shopping, out to lunch and back to her house for coffee and dessert (my grandmom didn't drive and my grandfather passed before I was born). I stopped going to my paternal grandparents once I was about 12 or 13, but did the Sunday thing with my mom until I moved out of state at 22.

 

[ronandannette]

We homeschool, so one of the traditions that we have is that we take everybody's birthday off from school if it falls on a weekday. It is one of the few times that I have seen kids hoping their birthday falls during the regular week instead of on a weekend.

We also celebrate Pie Day instead of (American) Thanksgiving. I have detailed the story on here before in more detail, but basically, being Canadians living in the US, we would celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in October, which left our American Thanksgiving Day wide open with nothing special going on. When our kids were young, my husband came home with a couple of Costco pies on the night before Thanksgiving. The kids asked if we were going to eat pie all day, and thus, a tradition was born. My husband told them they could have pie for every meal if they wanted, but only on that one day, so now we have Pie Day every year.

Given that the other choice is "Black-Friday Eve", I think you did well to go with Pie Day.

...This was from approximately 1965-1975. When we kids got in high school and had jobs we usually were out on Sat and Sun evenings, so the tradition faded...

But I can’t watch the Lawrence Welk Show today (PBS) without remembering my parents dancing around the den!

Try as I might, I was never able to cobble together anything substantial enough to be called a "tradition" in our little family of 3. And for sure, everything I did kind of hold-dear took a back-seat when DS hit high-school and jobs and friends came into it. {{wistful}}

 

[tinkerhon]

We don't have many, but we always go out to eat Friday nite - and we always watch the Connors, Kids Baking championship, and restaurant impossible together

 

[JimMIA]

Every Saturday evening growing up, my Dad would grill steaks, potatoes and onions and we’d watch the Lawrence Welk Show together.

LOL, small world! I'm an Army brat and my Dad was overseas a lot, but Mom used to grill steaks every Saturday night! Now my wife grills steaks almost every Saturday night.

Our other tradition is also food -- Stone Crabs on New Years Eve.

ETA: stone crabs and Champagne!

 

[MarkLT1]

Probably to a true "tradition," but we do have our regular family "quirk." And that is adapting whatever song is in our head, to whatever is going on around us (no.. we dont do it out in public, or all the time... but a random family member will suddenly start singing a song from the radio with alternative lyrics to match the current situation).

For example, the other night, my wife was making enchiladas, and normally we make them with the red sauce, but I had accidentally bought cans of the green sauce.. so as she is making them, and said "You got the wrong sauce" I started singing (to the pina colada song) "But I like green enchiladas..." The kids will make up songs about the dogs, etc..

 

[maxaroni]

Growing up, Friday night was spaghetti night. Saturday nights would be take out night, between pizza, KFC, hoagies or club sandwiches. Sunday during the summer would be steak on the grill, winters would be a roast. When I was young, Sunday dinner was at 1:00 and “supper” was whenever anyone got hungry. Sometimes getting deli meats & salads. As the years went on, we would eat dinner more at dinner time.

I don’t think any real traditions for us now.

 

[tasha99]

I have my adult kids and their partners and friends over for dinner almost every Saturday night. We all go to my parents' house on the third Sunday of the month for a huge family dinner (15-25 people). We try to do a family Disney vacation 2 out of 3 years. And we go camping with the extended family every summer.

We have a bunch of holiday routines, too long to list. For example, Christmas breakfast is always the same: bagels, lox, cream cheese, a bunch of fruit to make personalized fruit salads. Never changes, but sometimes we add (such as more types of smoked fish etc).

 

[mumto3girls]

I am trying to think of traditions outside of holidays/birthdays and am drawing a blank. We do have tons of holiday traditions, most involve extended family although we do have some of our own.