Holdiay Traditons
Over the years, I have been amazed how many people I have met that told me they do have holiday traditions. Over the years, I have been amazed how some people have a very rigged way of experiencing the holidays, sticking to black and white plan of what needs to be done as part of "the tradition."
This year I was surprised how few holiday greeting cards they were to choose. Then I had to remember that over the years I have been receiving less cards and more email cards.I still send out cards and I plan to when that tradition has been left in the dust. It is my one time of year that I communicate with many of the people I do not see anymore. I do not send cards locally and since I lived in many places I send the cards with little notes. But you see I remember that many people stopped doing cards long before electronic cards. They just didn't have the time. Then I have the friends who write the letters that they stick in the cards. I like most of them I receive. I might just have very create friends or that they just write well enough to make them entertaining to the reader.
I relate this all to you is that our traditions evolve. I know that 75 years ago a family might be happy with an orange in their stocking. Why? Oranges came a long way. Today in our grocery stores we not only have oranges we all so have strawberries and blueberries that come from all the way around the world. They are a bit more expensive this time of year but they are available all year long.
We change and evolve and so do our traditions. I think a holiday cookbook is a great place to explain how your family started out with their traditions. You can tell the stories about your immigrant ancestors and your grandparents and detail the holiday traditions that were part of the celebrations. Then talk about what you do today. If your family memory cookbook gets passed down, in two generations they will think of you as long ago too. That is how easy things get lost and disappear.
Happy Holidays...
this blog will not be published between 12/25-1/2
This year I was surprised how few holiday greeting cards they were to choose. Then I had to remember that over the years I have been receiving less cards and more email cards.I still send out cards and I plan to when that tradition has been left in the dust. It is my one time of year that I communicate with many of the people I do not see anymore. I do not send cards locally and since I lived in many places I send the cards with little notes. But you see I remember that many people stopped doing cards long before electronic cards. They just didn't have the time. Then I have the friends who write the letters that they stick in the cards. I like most of them I receive. I might just have very create friends or that they just write well enough to make them entertaining to the reader.
I relate this all to you is that our traditions evolve. I know that 75 years ago a family might be happy with an orange in their stocking. Why? Oranges came a long way. Today in our grocery stores we not only have oranges we all so have strawberries and blueberries that come from all the way around the world. They are a bit more expensive this time of year but they are available all year long.
We change and evolve and so do our traditions. I think a holiday cookbook is a great place to explain how your family started out with their traditions. You can tell the stories about your immigrant ancestors and your grandparents and detail the holiday traditions that were part of the celebrations. Then talk about what you do today. If your family memory cookbook gets passed down, in two generations they will think of you as long ago too. That is how easy things get lost and disappear.
Happy Holidays...
this blog will not be published between 12/25-1/2
On Christmas Eve, my 15 year old nephew asked me about one of our families quirky holiday traditions. He wanted to why we have served Kosher Corned Beef ....always from Cecil's Deli for Christmas Eve dinner for the last 25+ years.
My only explanation, other than I love Kosher corned beef from Cecil's is that a tradition is a way of sharing a wonderful memory with others in hopes that it creates wonderful memories for them too.
While that may not be Webster's definition of a tradition .... it's mine as are the many happy memories I have of Christmas Eve throughout the years.
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