{"id":14983,"date":"2013-12-02T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/2013\/12\/02\/tions\/"},"modified":"2013-12-02T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:03:01","slug":"tions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/tions\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I think of traditions, my mind immediately goes to the song from Fiddler on the Roof<\/i><\/a> and I hear Tevye singing in his booming voice. Ahhhh, tradition!<\/i><\/p>\n

Admittedly, tradition isn\u2019t nearly as prevalent in my own life as it was to the Jews of Anatevka. are a key part of many families, and in our family, holiday<\/i> traditions are important. We host an annual 4th<\/sup> of July BBQ, turkey must<\/i> be eaten on Thanksgiving and birthdays are a big deal.<\/p>\n

This is our first Christmas with Reagan. And although I know she won\u2019t remember it, my husband and I are in the throes of making lots of \u201ctradition\u201d decisions – traditions will we keep, traditions we will let go, new traditions to start. There are a lot of decisions.<\/p>\n

Hello darling, welcome to being the parent.<\/b><\/p>\n

In my husband\u2019s family they always opened stocking stuffers before breakfast on Christmas morning \u2013 keep! My family always ordered pizza for Christmas Eve\u2026 and we\u2019ll probably let this one go (at least on the years we aren\u2019t with my family for Christmas). Both families allowed the kids to open one present on Christmas Eve \u2013 we\u2019re keeping that one but making it our own by calling it the Christmas Eve Box<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of the traditions we start this year will last for years, and some will probably be dropped as Reagan gets older. Plus, we hope to have more children who will inevitably help shape who we are as a family, and what our Christmas looks like.<\/p>\n

are important and as much as I love tradition, I never want our traditions to become more important than our family itself. I want to be flexibility in how we celebrate so that everyone can feel like they are a part. (What if Reagan is gluten-intolerant and can\u2019t eat pizza, or what if my husband gets a job that requires him to work on Christmas day?)<\/p>\n

Ultimately, we want to be intentional in keeping the focus of the season on Jesus\u2019, so attending church on Christmas Eve is important to us, as well as reading the nativity story from the Bible (Luke 2:1-20<\/a>). Because, really, that\u2019s what Christmas is about, and what truly bonds our family together.<\/p>\n

What traditions are you going to keep or add this Christmas season?<\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I think of traditions, my mind immediately goes to the song from Fiddler on the Roof and I hear Tevye singing in his booming voice. Ahhhh, tradition! Admittedly, tradition isn\u2019t nearly as prevalent in my own life as it was to the Jews of Anatevka. are a key part of many families, and in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[24,26,103,101,58],"class_list":["post-14983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-parenting","tag-winter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}