Holiday Traditions

[jcofield]

In light of Thanksgiving coming, I was wondering about your family, cultural, or religious traditions. I always wonder what other families do to celebrate time together. It is interesting how different traditions can be

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traditions

[ebug]

Wow Jennie that sounds very neat. I've only tried to make a gingerbread house a couple of times, of course it was more a grahm cracker house, but oh well. My family traditions aren't really based on religion either. And actually many of our once traditions have fallen apart with age. When my brothers and I were born my Mom tried to get us started on an ornament collection. The plan was that every year we'd each get either a toy soldier, bear, or angel. I'm the only one that stuck with it for a while. Thanksgiving and christmas is pretty American. But, New Years is a different story. Every year my extended family gets together to light fire crackers, eat a ton of great food and play games. There are a few good luck traditions, like placing the Kado-Matsu by the door (its three pieces of bamboo, with some pine, and tied with rope), or stacking mochi (rice cake) with a tangerine on top, then eating the mochi in soup on new years day. These traditions are slowly dying too. My family used to make our own mochi, granted it was with a machine and not pound from scratch, but still it was another step in the process that we no longer do. Its all rather sad really, but I hope sometime to bring back some of the traditions I remember.