Comments on: Raffle time: Family traditions

By: Erzsi

Erzsi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:37:19 +0000

I’m Hungarian, and we grew up celebrating Mikulas Nap (St. Nikolas Day) on Decempber 6th – the perfect thing to carry us over to Christmas (if we were good that year). I introduced it to my husband years ago, and this will be the second time we celegrate with our son at a nearby Hungarian church, complete with a Mikulas. My sister in law and I also decided to start a Christmas Eve/Christmas Day tradition of making crafts with our kids, so the cousins can bond and have some home-made memories.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:34:52 +0000

We just completed our first ever home-made Halloween costume tradition. My mom always made ours when I was a kid, so I plan to get out the sewing machine and hit the craft stores for years to come.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:26:49 +0000

We have a tradition of baking our own birthday cake, which I’d love to share with my son once he gets old enough. Also, my partner has a tradition with his family where they get together and play a gift-exchanging game with each other each Christmas, which we want our son to be a part of, again once he gets old enough .

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:20:34 +0000

There are so many traditions I want to pass down to my son… and new traditions I want to start! This year, we went pumpkin picking with Ben. While he’s only 13 mos, it was such a fun time and it will be a great memory for my husband and I. On weekends, we go to music class and play music all weekend long… we sing, dance. Ben gets a kick out of it (his fave? show tunes and Jay-Z… very ecclectic!). I’m also excited to take Ben to Macy’s 34th Street to meet Santa Claus. We didn’t do it last year due to his colic so I’m looking forward to sharing NYC with him during the holidays… we’ll hit Macys, Rock Center, the windows at Saks… can’t wait. What’s even better is getting to show him all of these memories with photographs. Oh, he’ll probably roll his eyes and think I’m crazy but it’s these traditions that help build our little family. I now appreciate my parents for dragging me to the Christmas tree farm every year to cut down our tree (and now it’s my turn to drag my child!)

By: dawn

dawn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:18:18 +0000

My husband and I love Halloween. It gives us a chance to really have fun and be creative. We’ve already been lucky to celebrate twice with Leo. Last year at 3 months old he was a baby lobster (we carried him around in a padded lobster pot) & we were chefs. This year he was Jaws & we were Chief Brody & one of Jaws’ victims. We even turned his favorite ride into a wave float complete with the Jaws theme playing on our Ipod. We hope that Leo will love the planning and creating for this day as much as we do when he gets older.

By: Angelique

Angelique — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:33:26 +0000

Our family is a big melting pot where we are Jewish, Italian, Polish and Cuban all at one table. Our holiday dinners are full of different traditions run by the children. It makes for a great time and a lotof fun and learning. The other traditions we are passing down include understanding and respecting everyone’s beliefs and PATIENCE for differences. We also hope to pass down respect for elders which we feel has been lost in todays world.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:54:43 +0000

I like to light the candles on Friday night for Shabbat with my son. It’s a tradition that I hope to pass along to my son. But the once a year tradition, that I hope to pass on is making round challahs at Rosh Hashana. My family always revolved around the kitchen and I hope to share those experiences with my son.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:33:36 +0000

eating dinner together, donating money to a charity for Christmas (this is a stocking stuffer), saying prayers before bed, family vacations, family outings on weekends.

By: Valarie Fleming

Valarie Fleming — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:33:02 +0000

I love the weekend because it’s my time to celebrate with the joy of music just sitting around singing to my favorite tunes of harmonious melodies with family. Nothing beats it; I am definitely a musical theater lover! This tradition will never fade away!

By: Elina

Elina — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:57:51 +0000

I love family dinners together, especially since I love to cook, with lovely music in the background. Our family is very athletic so we also go to the gym together as often as possible in the evenings or on the weekends. So grandpa, grandma, the baby, and us. That’s really special!!!