In article >,
Terrel > wrote:

> After everyone left with their decorated cakes, I decided that we now
> have a new Easter family tradition. I'll make the mini easter egg
> cakes, and after dinner we'll all decorate them together.
>
> I think that's kind of nice.

I think that's how the best family traditions come to be. They start as
accidental accomodation of need and then are so fun or meaningful
they're kept on for their own sake.

I "do" the winter holidays for my sister, b-i-l, and niece. When I
first started (when my niece was a baby), I tried to replicate the
family holidays from when my sister and I were growing up, including
huge English breakfast with opening of the stockings on Christmas
morning.

Well, what with my sister and b-i-l's perpetual lack of speed at
accomplishing anything, plus their desire to be in their own home for
Christmas Eve, and the extra labor and fuss of transporting an infant
(by parents who didn't get to be parents until their 40s), things had to
shift. So now they come to my house on Christmas afternoon, when we do
the tree and dinner. They then stay over Christmas night, and on Boxing
Day we have the huge English breakfast (well, brunch) with stockings.
It makes Christmas last longer and has become a really wonderful way for
us to do it. This year we got a big snowstorm on Boxing Day, so they
all stayed a second night, and we had even more fun together.

I think by now we'd be disappointed if we went to bed on Christmas night
without another day of celebration to look forward to. :-)

Priscilla
--
"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in alt.religion.christian.episcopal