RWS Project 1 : Family Traditions Blog

     Hello all and welcome to my final blog post for a while! Today I am going to be reminiscing on one of my own family traditions that I remember from my childhood, and there aren't many that I can remember. This is one from after my parents' divorce and was solely practiced at my dad's house. That tradition was: Family Game Night.     My dad has always been known to love a good game. Some of his favorites were on the Wii, including Wii Sports Resort, Wipeout, Mario Kart, and Super Mario Bros, but he was also a big fan of classic board games. The ones that we had on rotation were Clue, Trouble, Shoots & Ladders, and Candy Land. But none of them were used more in my dad's house than Monopoly.     We walk in the door to my dad's house after getting home from school on Friday. Not only does that signify that it's now the weekend, but it also means it's time for my favorite activity of the week, family game night. My sister and I rush up the stairs t...

     Hello all! Today's blog post is going to be about family traditions that surround something we all love: food. Food is a huge part of a lot of not only family traditions, but also cultural ones. Sometimes the lines between a family tradition and a cultural one can be quite blurred. Culture can mean many different things, but for the purpose of this blog post, I'll mainly be discussing racial and religious cultural traditions surrounding food.     Being a white woman with no ties to any religion in particular, I don't feel that I am the most qualified to speak on racial and religious traditions from first-hand experiences, so I have gathered information from my roommate about her own familial food traditions to share with you all. I hope that all my readers can either relate to this tradition in the way that you have also practiced it, or that, at the very least, you learn something new about a culture that is different than your own!      My ...

     Hello all! My first real post here is going to speak on my most fond personal experience with family tradition. As I mentioned in my introductory post, my parents got a divorce when I was seven years old. I am a "look on the bright side" kind of person, so the way I looked at it was I got to have twice the amount of traditions than everyone else because I had some with my mom and some with my dad. The tradition I'll be talking about in this post is the only one I can remember from before the divorce. My list of traditions stops short of lists I have made of my close friend's family traditions, but mine are special to me because they are just that : mine.       This tradition that sits near and dear to my heart surrounds Christmastime. Allow me to set the scene. I am six years old. Tomorrow is Christmas morning. I've been told that Santa will be coming to our house tonight while I sleep to drop off presents carefully selected for me. Even at six ye...

    Hello all and welcome to my blog! Here, I will be discussing anything and everything about family traditions. Where do they come from? How many should a given family have? Can you simply make one up or does it have to come from somewhere? Must they be of sentimental value? What are some easy ones to incorporate to your own lives? I'm here to answer these questions and more!      I'd like to begin by defining what a family tradition means to me. A family tradition in my eyes is a recurring activity or behavior that you share with your immediate or extended family. Traditionally, these traditions are inherited from your parents or grandparents, which you then do your part of passing it on to your own children, and down your ever-growing family tree. However, I am here to tell you that family traditions must start somewhere, and that somewhere could be you!       My experience with family traditions is limited. My parents got a divorce ...