Starting a Family Tradition

Start a family tradition over this holiday season.  One that your children will pass on to their children and their children's children.  Kind of neat to think that something you start this year could last for generations to come and have the added bonus of bonding your family together even more.  It doesn't matter whether the tradition is something that comes from your own childhood or something new to your family, both work.  The tradition just needs to be something that includes all the members of the family.  Some of the traditions that my family has adopted are:  riding around looking at all the Christmas lights sipping on hot chocolate and homemade cookies, baking homemade cookies together (even little one's can help by taste testing, or providing them with a tiny rolling pin),  or starting a collection for them (each year I pick out a special ornament for each of my children and give it to them when we are putting up the tree).  Most of our traditions were past down to me by my family, but some I started with my family.  Thanks mom and dad for making the holiday season such a wonderful and memorable time.  Start a tradition with your family this year, your children will thank you too.  Whether it's a new tradition or one from your own childhood doesn't matter.  Just do it, you and your family will be happy you did.