Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.
Growing up in a large lower lower-middle class family, we didn’t have the money to do many things. We didn’t eat out much. We didn’t go on yearly vacations.
There was a three year period where we went to an ocean town for a couple days each summer, but I only have memories of one of those years.
We went away for Christmas once when I was 16 years old, but it wasn’t a tradition. It was just the one vacation. It was a blast though, full of a lot of awesome memories.
Then we started going skiing every year with a huge group of our friends and family. We went for Learn to Ski Day because the cost of rentals was like $10 per person or something crazy like that. For a family of 7, that’s not a bad deal.
But as we got older, friends and family moved away or stopping going. Then I was gone for over five years with the military, so I wasn’t able to go with them anymore.
The last time we went skiing as a family was in 2018, shortly after I separated from my now ex-husband and moved back home with my son, who did not enjoy the skiing. He did love snow tubing though.
No, the family traditions I have are the ones I make with my son and my fiancé. My favorite one being our yearly trip to Lexington, VA to see their Christmas parade. It was the first away trip my fiancé and I took with my son. Our first picture of the three of us was taken in front of the Natural Bridge in VA during that first away trip.
In fact, he proposed in front of the Natural Bridge on our most recent trip to Lexington in December 2024.
I love Lexington, and always look forward to our yearly trip there.
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