What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?
My parents are not decorating or festive decorators, or put in the effort into making the holiday special other than going to church.
Or even coming to the festivities other than praying and giving grace.
For example, they’ve never cooked a Turkey on Thanksgiving. That’s something that I had to bring up.
I believe that decorating and sharing the festivities in going out, seeing a pumpkin patch, or going to the local farms is a tradition, and cooking turkey is a good tradition as well.
They don’t really do Christmas decorations or go around the tree. And putting up decorations to get into the Christmas spirit, I had to introduce that to make things lighter and festive.
Even with making up games something I like to put a tradition on. So we can just laugh and play with each other. They didn’t do that in their time because they didn’t celebrate Christmas festively and uniquely back in Africa.
They would randomly go around the shops and visit from sitting outside and just talk for hours.
That’s fine, but I think it’s important for me to part with my very own traditions which I see as a very nice part to invoke in the future for me and future family.
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