Did you all have a nice Easter? We did. I’m hoping that we all were able to share in the joy of the resurrection of Jesus. The tomb was empty, praise God! I have always enjoyed Easter. Though, in the beginning it was obviously for the egg hunt. We had our traditions. As most families do. Except now, for our own children, we have let go of a lot of those things. I don’t dye the eggs, we don’t have an Easter brunch or dinner, And I don’t tell the story. My children don’t believe in Easter bunny (and never have) and I honestly feel like maybe I’m failing them.
I know the importance of why we celebrate and I am glad my children know, its just the other thing. The family traditions. Why do we do them? We do them because when we were little our parents did it for us and their parents did it for them. This is sort of what it means to have family traditions. I wonder what will my children do when they get older. Will they have something to pass on? I don’t have a strong desire to do “all the things”, but I fear they will miss out if I don’t start. Is that crazy? To want to have something your children can say they enjoyed every year? To be clear, I am specifically talking about Easter and perhaps Valentine’s Day. We have Thanksgiving and Christmas traditions. What about all the other holidays? I see some moms who do something for every holiday and I think, “Wow, I wish I had thought of that.” or “It would have been fun to at least have done something.”
I’m curious, do you have traditions for every holiday? Something that you do every year, just for the pure joy of doing it with your family or for your children to have those memories? For every Holiday?
Just Momming 
ah yes. so hard to know! I think that traditions are great-they bring a solidness to a family. HOWEVER…that being said, I like shaking it up too! I feel, as long as you do a couple of things to bring about that holiday, it’s all good! Dying the eggs, LOVE IT! something fairly new is the resurrection eggs. you can look it up-it’s pretty cool and all about Jesus and new life! For me, I can get SO stuck on “it has to be THIS way as it has always been”, that I am working away from that, and doing a few new things each year, and then leaving some out. I Do decorate the house, now THAT is something that is important to me! I have different signs about Jesus rising, and bunnies too! spring! same thing with Valentines. so for us, we do not do the SAME thing, but we sure do celebrate in some sweet ways! that to me, is more important! 🙂
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Tami, thank you for reading. Also, I love what you said. I like shaking things up as well. I think I also have some things that I am set on doing a certain way, but I’m also realizing that I don’t have to. Setting new traditions can be a very good thing for us as well. Thank you again. I always enjoy your input.
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