Monday, December 4, 2017

on family traditions

is there such a thing as having too many family traditions? asking for a friend.

growing up, we didn't really have many traditions that i can think of. that's not to say anything negative about my childhood at all. i had a cool, fun, albeit potentially strange childhood (everyone did, right?), but it was great. i just can't really remember things that we did every single year, or season, or whatever. and yet somehow, i found myself finding it super imperative to have and keep family traditions, now that luca is of the age to actually remember them. he completely shocked me the other day when he came home from daycare, headed towards our office, and said "that where the christmas tree will go!" they must have talked about christmas a little bit during the day, and i couldn't believe he remembered where our tree went last year, when he was only a year and a half! (he also will remember and randomly mention something that his grandma did or ate or saw when she was here 6 months ago, so he's basically rain man.)
so, it seems like a good time to get our traditions really solidified, since he's clearly secretly an elephant who forgets nothing.

we have 4 traditions that have been going strong for a while:

1. the first one that we've kept going the longest is our cabin and hiking trip which i mentioned in my last post. this started way before luca was born, and will definitely continue to be a  yearly fall trip that we make.
2. and ever since tucker and i first started dating, we've gotten chinese take-out on christmas eve, and i've made a huge breakfast on christmas morning, including enough monkey bread to feed approximately 20 people.
3. our holiday photos. now, this is definitely one that is "my thing", but thankfully tucker never says a word about not wanting to do it, and i'm convinced he will teach luca to do the same as he gets older and mouthier :) it's an important one to me, because we as a family have several photos of me or my brother as kids, but barely any of all the family members together. i want luca to be able to go back and look at pictures of his parents with him (you know, so he can make fun of us).
4. our 4th of july party - i look forward to this every single year, and 2018 will be year #7!

what are some of your favorite/most memorable family traditions?

here are our family holiday pictures from luca's very first holiday season, up to this year.








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