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Family Traditions
Filed Under (From Mr. Lund) by Daniel Lund on 25-11-2009
Family traditions. Family traditions are an important part of the holidays. Your traditions are unique to your family. They connect your grandparents, parents, kids, aunts, and uncles. Every family has certain things that bind your family together. Do your family traditions revolve around food? Do they center around certain activities or games? Maybe your family traditions revolve around helping others. Please take a moment and describe your holiday family traditions.
-Mr. Lund
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November 25th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
The family tradition is every thnaksgiving going to my aunt Alice’s house in Dallas, But since she moved we go to her house in sprringfield in Dallas. But we still go visit Brianna in Dallas
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November 25th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Springfield insted of Dallas I meant.
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November 25th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
My family tradition is we put up the Christmas tree every Christmas. We also have our family from my moms side come down or we go over there for Thanksgiving. I love family traditions!!
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November 25th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
A new family tradition was started a few years ago by the kids in my family.
After Thanksgiving but before Christmas, my family spends a day making pierogis. Pierogis are a Polish ravioli or dumpling. My family fills our pierogis with mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, or sweet cabbage. These special treats are saved for our Christmas Eve dinner!
We started this tradition because we wanted to continue the traditional Polish dinner that we “enjoyed” as kids and now appreciate as adults. Of course, the meal was prepared by my Grandma. Grandma Gayda would serve pierogis, fish, various soups, hunter stew, kapusta, and various other side dishes. When we were kids, this dinner was a “required” part of the holidays. Many of these foods are based on cabbage, which smells very “unique” and unappetizing to kids! The best part of the meal was the desserts and presents after the Christmas Eve meal.
Now that my siblings are older, we’ve grown to love this meal, the time we spend together as a family, and the history behind the foods! -Mr. Lund
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Marisa R. Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
That sounds like a great tradition you had! That sounds like a tasty meal your Grandma made. I’m glad you had a great tradition and enjoyed what your tradition was!
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Christine (Emma's Mom) Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Mr. Lund,
I love how you and your family celebrate your heritage through these very cool traditions. I bet it’s fun for everyone in your family.
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Our family tradition is eating at my house for Thanksgiving, for every holiday or special occassion we always talk about which house we are going to eat at. It would either be my house, my grandma’s house, and either my aunt’s house. Every Sunday after our family has gone to church our whole family goes out to eat and it will be someones choice in the family to choose where we eat at. Our family does this every Sunday. It is very fun because we get to talk to each other for once because we are always either busy at school for us kids in the family (my cousins and I) or the adults in the family are working and have other plans. So that’s the only time to see each other which makes it worth wild for everyone and we all have a great time! I love the traditions we have, it brings our family even closer.
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November 25th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
My family goes to ST. Louis every year the day after Thanksgiving and watch a new realse movie.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Well I was born in Korea and I go to Ginger a lot and get Korean Hot wings. My sister was born in China and we eat Chinese food like white rice. Our family like Ginger and we love trying different foods from of countries.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 1:53 pm
My daughter Cambria and I share a fun tradition through the month of December. The weekend after Thanksgiving we wrap up 24 holiday books (mostly Christmas stories). Then, starting Dec. 1, we unwrap one book each night and read it together. We have been doing this since Cami was very little. Now, she is reading most of the books to me! This is a great way to share a special time together and get into the Christmas spirit with fun books. It is also a great way for Cami to tell how close we are getting to Christmas by the pile of books that gets smaller and smaller!! Sometimes, I will buy a new book and wrap it too, Cami is always hoping that she may unwrap a new story one night during the month. Of course the last book that we unwrap is The Night Before Christmas. On Christmas Eve, my dad reads this book to all the children and grandchildren while we have eggnog and cookies together. Sometimes we get very busy during the holiday season with programs and shopping and meals with families. This is a fun tradition that ensures Cambria and I some special time together each night!!
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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I think that is a great family tradition. I also love to read.What is your favorite book?**
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December 4th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Hello Mr. Lund and class! This is my first visit to your blog, and I am really enjoying your comments and pictures. I thought I would share my favorite holiday tradition. Every year, as it gets closer to Christmas, my family picks one night to go to Starbucks to get hot chocolate. Then, we drive around the local neighborhoods to see all the holiday light displays. You would be amazed at some of the brilliant and creative homes we have here in California! While we drive, we sing along with the holiday songs on the radio. I look forward to it every year. I hope you all have an enjoyable holiday season and winter break!
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December 10th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Hi Mr. Lund and class!
I am from Norway, so some of my traditions are quite different from the ones you have in America. First of all, we don’t have Thanksgiving. Also, we open our presents on Christmas Eve. Around five in the evening we have my grand-parents over and we eat lamb ribbs. After that we eat something called Riskrem (Ricecream, or something like that in english). It is made of cold porridge and whipped cream. It sounds very grose, but it’s delicious! It is a very common desert in Norway, especially around Christmas. You should try it once!
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Christine (Emma's Mom) Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I love hearing how other people celebrate different holidays from different parts of the world. So interesting! Thanks, Rebecca for sharing:-) Norway seems like such an interesting place and I would love to take the kids there one day for a visit. I remember, Rebecca, when you were just a baby, probably about a couple of months old, I tasted a dessert your Mom had made. It was so delicious. I remember it tasted like what we call Tiramisu. I bet the the Riskrem is delicious too. Maybe we can try to make it one day. Any special way to make it? Who knows, maybe it will become a favorite over here in the US:-) Thanks for stopping in to say hi and tell us a little about your wonderful traditions.
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