Family
May 15, 2019 Uncategorized 2 comments jbrooks19
For me, when I hear family traditions or history I can only think Christmas and of course birthdays. That’s a given yet another year of setting up a tree and blowing out candles but to me, that’s not what is completely important. Let me explain…
If I had one tradition it would be every day and it’s being there for my mom whatever she needs to be done, I’ll help her do it. We have moved to many places I’ve talked to many people and have seen millions of faces. To me, it’s the simple things though just like when October rolls around my mom will light that pumpkin spice candle which fills the whole room with a glorious smell and I always ask what she made. Or when it’s November and I see the green box with Christmas ornaments packed inside we hang the ornaments from eighteen years ago on our tree and sit back and enjoy our work. Or when I smell that spray-on sunscreen it’s either cleaning the yard or were going to be beach bums all day. My favorite tradition though is special to me and it’s just my mom and me sitting down on my bed and venting to each other almost every day and we just talk about what happened that day and what were the high’s and low’s. I appreciate everything she has done for me and the long hours she worked when I didn’t have anyone else to support me. What I can wish for is stability in our lives something solid and not have to worry about where we’re going to live next which is what I imagine to be a more stress-free life. I do enjoy when my grandparents are around we talk about good memories and everything that we had done throughout the years when I was little and to me, I do enjoy these pop-up traditions just sitting with a loved one talking about our older traditions that we used to do every summer. Going up North to see both of my grandparents and going all around and enjoying food having new experiences like going to Bar Harbor on a nice sunny day and going whale watching and eating a lobster roll I would give anything just to be little again and having enough time to go up and do it all over again.
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Family traditions aren’t just what the family does every now and then. It doesn’t have to be something big for it to be a tradition. Just spending time together can be a tradition. So I’m glad that your able to have a good relationship with your mom and grandparents and how your able to have a nice little tradition. You did a good job writing this and there is nothing wrong with writing a short story rather than something long as long as you can get right to your point.
I feel like a lot of what you wrote is what a lot of people need to here, like you said it’s not the extravagant means that your family goes about in vacations or anything, because if you go and do that, you might now have the best relationship under all the money, which at that point something is wrong. So, I’m glad you see the importance of the small things in life that add up the most. I also liked that it was written in a way that encouraged others to find this in their lives