Blog Post Three

     Traditions are very important in my family. We have been doing the same things for holidays for as long as I can remember. I almost blame my hatred of change on how much we enforce our family traditions. My family is what I would consider as medium sized. Although we all live in the same county, holidays are usually the only time that we are all together. This makes me enjoy our traditions even more. It is so nice to know that no matter what I will still be able to see all of my cousins on Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter. This gives us just enough time to catch up, gossip, and reminisce before we get annoyed with each other like all family members do.
   For Thanksgiving every year we all get together at my grandma's house at 4pm. It has been that time for as long as I can remember. We tried to change it one year, and it was a mess because everyone couldn't remember the new time and just randomly showed up. My grandma does all of the cooking and every year we look forward to her delicious noodles, and pies. We still have a kids table even though none of us are technically kids anymore.
   Our tradition for Christmas Eve is that everyone comes over to my house, and my mom always makes lasagna. After we are done eating we all sit around and talk and watch the marathon of "A Christmas Story". As for Christmas Day we have pretty much the same tradition as Thanksgiving. Everyone meets again at 4 and we eat noodles and pie until we can't walk. Then we go and open up gifts, and go for round 2 of pie.
    As for Easter we have a little different meal of usually grilling hot dogs and hamburgers depending on the weather. When we were younger we always would hunt for eggs, but now that we have all grown up we don't get to do that anymore. My grandma does still hide us baskets throughout her house for us to find.
   After my grandpa passed away our traditions had to change a little. There was one less mouth to prepare food for, one less person to buy gifts for, and one less person sitting around the table. This made holidays very hard to deal with, but as a family we have learned to cope. I do not think that the death of a family member should change traditions. I believe that at that time is when traditions need to be enforced even more than they were before. I am so thankful for my family traditions, and for always giving me good holiday memories.