Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Holiday traditions

Growing up, we always celebrated holidays (Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas) at one of my aunts houses. We have a large family (my mom has 4 siblings - 2 brothers and 2 sisters). Every family get together was guaranteed to have American Pie playing in the background, the sisters dancing in the kitchen while cooking, and the nieces and nephews singing. As we got older, the song changed to Itty Bitty Pretty One, and it was the first song played at my wedding once the dance floor opened

only a small part of my family


To this day, anytime I hear either of those songs, it takes me back to family gatherings and terrific memories.

One year in High school, I missed Thanksgiving dinner because I was working - it wasn't a huge deal, but one of my best friends also missed Thanksgiving that year. One night, during one of our many lengthy phone calls, we came up with a plan.

It was coming close to American Thanksgiving, so we decided we were going to host a turkey dinner for our friends (we did it on a Sunday as we had school on the ACTUAL American Thanksgiving) - somehow, Krys came up with the name "Shaboom" and we started inviting everyone. Now, since we were in high school and low on money, we asked everyone to contribute a small amount to the meal - but we took care of getting the groceries, cooking the food and cleaning up (well, actually - I think my mom did most of the cleaning!)

It was my first time ever cooking a turkey, but Krys had a little experience and my mom was around too...we managed (with a few mishaps) to get everything cooked and served  - and had a great evening. It was such a success, that we did it again the following year. Unfortunately, everyone scattered after high school and we never got to have another one, but we still have the memories of those nights.

A few weeks ago, one of those dear friends in attendance got married - and it was such a wonderful day/evening - and brought back lots of high school memories!

Do you have any holiday traditions? I would love to hear them!

9 comments:

  1. I have 2 sisters and once we all got married we almost always had Christmas supper with our husbands family so we started the tradition of every Christmas Eve getting together for a big supper and opening all of our gifts to each other and the children. That way we could see our nieces and nephews open their gifts and spend quality time together.

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    1. we do a christmas eve GTG at my moms too! Lots of fun

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  2. We have many holiday traditions and they always include us being together as a family. Now that we have moved to a smaller house our traditions are getting rearranged but we are always still together.

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  3. We also have many holiday traditions from when I was growing up that we know enjoy with our own kids, but we've also developed new traditions as well. As long as we're with family, we're happy! :)

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  4. Love those memories! I just got introduced to the song Itty Bitty Pretty One in the kids' movie Matilda--it sure does get you moving and rocks! I hope you have fun with your family traditions this year too!

    Jenna
    www.snymed.blogspot.ca

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  5. Since having a family we do. From setting yup the tree to celebrating the seasons.
    We also make our infamous Ashmore, Christmas 'Nog Shakes. They are a secret recipe and do delicous. It'll knock you on your tush.

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  6. Nothing in true stone for us, each year bring more excitement!

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  7. I'm lucky enough to still be close with a lot of my high school friends and we've recently started a big Christmas dinner together. We all have families now, so it's a pretty awesome time!

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    1. That's really neat that you all get together! Fun that the kids can grow up with each other like you did

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