Family Traditions!!!

[50 cent]

[COLOR=Blue][SIZE=1][FONT=Arial]Doesn't everyone just love family traditions? Well family traditions can both be fun and not so fun. I have many family traditions like one I am half Mexican so I eat hotsauce with pineapple with a little bit of salt. I know it may sound gross but oddly enough its not really it just taste like pineapple with more flavor. Another one is I am also half German so every Christmas I eat at my Oma and Opa's ( Its german for grandma and grandpa) when we are there we eat these things called wenies. I know what you are thinking oh those are hot dogs but they aren't but they look like long hot dogs but tast nothing like them, but all I can say about them is they are so good. Also we always make homeade potato salad which is a family secrect recipe but it is so good.

So anyway I want to hear some of you family traditions from your cultures. I am sure we will here plenty of them that are going to be intresting. Some maybe sick but hey its there culture so please no rude remarks but you can make a rude remark on my pineapple one because I honestly think it sounds sick and wrong but it is good.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

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[Panda]

Every year after Christmas before New Years my family gets together to make Mochi. It is a sweet rice cake. Very yummy. Japanese tradition says that you are suppose to eat the rice cakes on New Year's Day for a great coming year.

So we all get together and make cakes and usually have a huge meal. It is a nice way to spend time with the family and visit. We take the extras over to our friends and wish them a happy new year. It is alot of fun and I know this is a tradition that I will continue until the day I die. My hubby, who comes from a German heritage thinks that it is a great tradition and loves to participate. He is pretty good at making the little cakes! :D

Great,now I am craving some Mochi!

[Ozymandius Jones]

Well, I don't know if it's quite a [i]tradition[/i], but every year, my aunt makes us go to the park and get our picture taken on the same exact swing. We have about 11 years of these pictures.

[Vicky]

[SIZE=1][B]My family has very little, but one of the traditions is to tell those annoying people on the phone selling stuff to f--- off. Not very nice, but still my mum, dad, aunts and uncles do it. Seems like everyone does it...

Though a more serious one is we have a HUGE party on boxing day or before Christmas, the whole family get's together at my Gran's house and we all have a party and bring PS2 games. It never used to be like that, we used to get have a talk and leave, but now the whole family comes and we play games and don't go home to around 1am and most of the adults get pi**ed.[/SIZE][/B]

[Balinese]

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]Heh....

My family used to have a tradition that my brother and i spend Christmas Eve with my dad and watch him get really really drunk on the bottle of Scotch we buy him as a present every year. Great fun.[/FONT]

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]My parent's families are Irish German catholics. My dad's family is huge. Every Christmas eve my grandma (who now I see as some sort of hypocrit, but I used to love), my dad, his brother and five sisters, their spouses, their children, either their children's children or their spouses or their children's children and spouses all cram into one house to eat a buffet style meal, do grab bag gifts and then leave.

Last year was of the utmost enjoyability. For personal reasons one of my cousins and her fiance decided not to come to our house for the occasion (my brother) then my brother went over my aunt Marty's (mom's younger sister) house since he couldn't very well stay up in his room for five hours. My grandma tried to tell my husband how 'God was in Iraq and wanted us to help the people and God is for this war'(this same woman thinks all muslims are homicidal/suicidal people who think the only way to get to heaven is to kill people) Lincoln did a great job holding his tongue, but did wish her happy yule. Then she hung around after everyone else had left and tried to barb my mom about my brother. (and just so you know, I have a cousin on this side of the family who lost custody of her daughter for reasons undisclosed to me, but nobody says anything about that.) My mom said that she wanted to get some sleep before midnight mass so my grandma left

My mom's side of the family is a bit more enjoyable, more closely knit and much more open minded. I can still talk heaven with my Mama. We switch houses around for thanksgiving, easter, mother's day and father's day, but for Christmas we always go to my mama and papa's house with the exception of maybe 2 times. And after every meal reguardless of the holiday we play board games. Last year was Lincoln's first experiance with this tradition-I kicked his butt in Tribond because he didn't want to be on my team. Booger head!

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[NeoNabishen]

Christmas morning, me and my brother and sisters all get up and sit around waiting for my dad to get up. After he gets up we have to wait for him to get out the video camera. By this time the suspense is killing use. Then we each take turns opening one gift at a time (all on camera). It takes a while. Then we have to clean everything up before we can play with anything. My dad seed this is how he did it when he was a boy (my granddad used to be in the army)
Well that’s one of my traditions.
(I don't like it though)