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| Last day of our Bahaman vacation. |
He moved to go to school there and it was quite difficult considering I had always relied on him for just about anything. But I'm gonna guess that he would say other wise. It may have to due with me being just like Nonna, but that doesn't matter.
So with the timeline, my birthday came first and Dennis wasn't able to come home on my actual birthday. However, he was able to make it to the party I had for my friends.
He arrived the day of the party, to find our house in complete and utter chaos. The kitchen was filled with a dozen teenagers stuffing their face with pizza and a competition to see who could down the most Mountian Dew in one go. For the record, I won. I'm not saying how many I got because you'll think that I'm absolutely insane, if you don't already.
The idea of having the party was so I could spend time with my friends. Looking back, I should've paid my brother the respect and actually have a full conversation with him because he did drive all the way back just for me.
So because of me completely ignoring my brother that day, we instated the new tradition to prevent that from happening. Because I mean would we actually have a birthday to celebrate without our family being there. In my world family comes first, no matter what.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that this is an extremely valuable tradition. Throughout my childhood, I experienced the same difficulty in finding the proper balance between time spent with my family and time spent with my friends during parties. No matter what I did, it seemed like someone got hurt, and I have always hated that feeling. I think your family has developed a tradition that not only creates a fix to this problem, but it also allows enough time for all the love to be spread that there is to give by friends and family during birthdays.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great tradition. I hope my kids are that sweet to eachother one day. In my family we have what is called "birthday weekends", which fixes the issues with birthdays falling on a weekday. We just celebrate the closest weekend to our birthdays.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a very special tradition to have. I have a very large family and I know how difficult it can be to get together with everyone at once, especially since each person probably has their own schedule. We try as hard as we can to see if everyone can make it on the same day, but if not, we still make sure we are able to celebrate some way or another.
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