Tradition
I love celebrating holidays and I love traditions. I am grateful for all of the wonderful family traditions that are a part of who I am and of the family my husband and I have created.
A typical Thanksgiving for me as a kid meant that our friends, the Adams family, came over for the day. We would play games all day and snack on veggies and cheese and crackers, then eat our dinner around 4pm. Turkey, yams and apples, homemade rolls and stuffing, cranberries, corn, green beans, and Jello salad were always on the table. Then we would talk and eat and talk some more until we ate pie. My favorite is my mom's apple pie with a big scoop of ice cream, but I also love her cherry and pumpkin will do if that's all that's left. Then we would all gather to watch a Christmas movie and during the movie we would pause it to make turkey sandwiches with the leftover rolls and turkey.
It was a simple celebration but it became tradition to share our day with friends since we never had any family close by. Good food, good friends with some games and a movie mixed in were enough to make it a special day, one to express and feel gratitude for the numerous blessings we enjoyed.
It is the simple traditions and the way of celebrating important things that make families unique and bind them together. I'm grateful to my parents for the many traditions they created in our home. The July 4th picnics, the Christmas Eve program we always did, the way Santa always leaves one, fun unopened gift on Christmas morning, opening birthday presents on our fireplace hearth, having a weekly family home evening, going to church every Sunday, daily family prayer and family dinners made us Burninghams and I'm so grateful.
A typical Thanksgiving for me as a kid meant that our friends, the Adams family, came over for the day. We would play games all day and snack on veggies and cheese and crackers, then eat our dinner around 4pm. Turkey, yams and apples, homemade rolls and stuffing, cranberries, corn, green beans, and Jello salad were always on the table. Then we would talk and eat and talk some more until we ate pie. My favorite is my mom's apple pie with a big scoop of ice cream, but I also love her cherry and pumpkin will do if that's all that's left. Then we would all gather to watch a Christmas movie and during the movie we would pause it to make turkey sandwiches with the leftover rolls and turkey.
It was a simple celebration but it became tradition to share our day with friends since we never had any family close by. Good food, good friends with some games and a movie mixed in were enough to make it a special day, one to express and feel gratitude for the numerous blessings we enjoyed.
It is the simple traditions and the way of celebrating important things that make families unique and bind them together. I'm grateful to my parents for the many traditions they created in our home. The July 4th picnics, the Christmas Eve program we always did, the way Santa always leaves one, fun unopened gift on Christmas morning, opening birthday presents on our fireplace hearth, having a weekly family home evening, going to church every Sunday, daily family prayer and family dinners made us Burninghams and I'm so grateful.
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