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Butterscotch Monkey Bread

Yesterday I talked about the importance of family traditions and asked you to weigh in on what traditions are part of your family. I’ve gathered your responses from Facebook and Twitter as well and have some fantastic ideas if you’re in search of a new family tradition for the holidays.

New Family Traditions

My mom and I have always loved traditions. Every time we sit down and try to think of our family traditions, though, we come up blank. It seems every year we do something new and think “This will be a tradition!” And every year we forget what we did last year! So, we decided our family tradition is to START family traditions!

In the spirit of starting family traditions, I’m showcasing the traditions friends and readers have shared with me. There are some great ones and I hope you find something that will make this holiday season a little more memorable.

Katie said: “After all the good stuff on Christmas Eve (church, dinner, stories, songs, pjs, etc) we take the boys out to sprinkle reindeer food (oats and a little glitter). To them it’s the perfect end to day and anticipation of what’s to come!”

Kim said: “We have bonitsa (Bulgarian) for breakfast, Boklava (bulgarian) Christmas day, Rice pudding (Danish) Christmas eve, Talk about nativity (Peru) Christmas eve, and Celebrate the birth of Christ ALL day on Christmas (Christian) We try and do things as you see from all diffrent cultures we love”

J said: “One of my favorite traditions is watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” on Christmas eve.”

New Christmas Pajamas

My sister-in-law, Sara, and Vanessa of I Never Grew Up both share our tradition of new pjs on Christmas Eve.

Greg said: “Maybe driving around looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve.”

Mrs P, who has a wonderful, interactive site where she reads books for children, said: “I like to make paper leaves & have everyone write what they are thankful for, and then read aloud along w/ The Gift of the Magi”

One tradition that I married into and we have adopted into our own family is butterscotch monkey bread for breakfast on Christmas morning. It’s delightfully sweet and gooey.

Christie shared her family’s daily traditions that shape their identity: “As a family, we have so many traditions – my daughter and her Dad share a story in bed every morning before he gets ready for work. We sit down together to eat our evening meal every night. We have a bedtime routine that involves all three of us and remains unchanged since she was six months old. I completely agree that family traditions and rituals shape the identity of the individual and the family unit.”

Hope the holiday season is a wonderful time of celebrating and family bonding for you and your little ones.

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