Hey everyone!!
So the other day I was thinking about how excited I was about Halloween (favorite. holiday. ever!!!! I mean how can you beat free candy all over the city and wearing fun costumes, not to mention the epic scary movie marathons??) and it got me thinking about one of my favorite childhood memories. When I was little, my parents would always decorate the house like crazy for Halloween and I loved helping them out with it (even though often times I'd do more damage than help haha). It was like a ritual - every second week in October we'd go out and get the supplies (you know the drill, spider webs galore and skelton figures) and start decorating. I always loved feeling close to my family that way.
Most of my families traditions revolve around decorating for the holidays (don't even get me started on what we do for Christmas haha) as well as the food that my mom cooks (she make the most amazing green chile stew and beans ever. But maybe I'm a little biased on that account haha). My mom is hispanic through and through and although she speaks even less Spanish than I do, she still carries these cooking traditions as part of her heritage because they're things that her mother taught her. My dad is mostly Italian with a bit of German mixed in there and he doesn't do much cooking so I don't experience as much from those two cultures, but for some reason I definitely have the talking with my hands thing down. haha. Anyway, now that I've finished rambling, I just thought this would be a good opprotunity for us to share some of our family traditions.
What's your favorite family tradition or what's the biggest tradition that stands out to you in your memories of when you were little? How do you think following these traditions has influenced you as a person? Why do you think that you enjoy these traditions so much? Do you have traditions that have been passed down from previous generations to those of your parents? How big of a part does your family's background play in the traditions that you partake in?
