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| Traditional Birthday weekend in Kenosha |
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| Playing Uno on our Kenosha Weekend! |
There is a special bonding of hearts that happens with our families when we participate in traditions. It reinforces our sense of belonging to one another. It identifies us to ourselves as the "___" clan! It gives us the opportunity to invest in our history as a family! It brings joy to family members of all ages and a sense of security in what sometimes seems a fragile world.
My husband and I started a tradition about 4 or 5 years ago of going to Lake Geneva and Kenosha area of Wisconsin to celebrate our shared birthday. It coincides with the Art in the Park fest in Lake Geneva so we started going and spending the weekend and inviting our adult kids to come along. Last year we were joined by my son's new wife and step-son and his mother-in-law. This year my daughter was able to join us again too. The laughter and comraderie and love for one another just makes our yearly birthday tradition so special for my husband and I. It is wonderful to look back over photos of these times together in Wisconsin and revel in the treasure of family.
As we as Americans face some difficult financial times ahead, we especially need some of these weekend family get-a-ways. These family mini-vacations are priceless. It's worth the small investment to us to keep up our tradition of this birthday weekend celebration...no other gifts needed, just having our kids with us is the best gift we could ever receive.
We have other family traditions as well that are unique to us. How about you? Are you keeping family traditions, making new ones as you add family members? It is an investment in strong family ties!
Feel free to click on "comment" and share your favorite family tradition!
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| Poppi with daughter Amy and daughter-in-law, Brandi in Kenosha 2011 |
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| The "grandmas" at Art in the Park 2010 Lake Geneva |
Mother Teresa, I saw your picture and caption about the garden and the dew... I have a supernatural story about my garden. I had a rose tree die a couple years ago and disappear, and now it birthed 6 or more new trees and they are of 3 different colors! When I see this, I can't help but believe the fruit that God will bring forth from things that die in our lives. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteWe too take min-vacations to countrysides such as Wisconsin or Amish community as to create and treasure lovely memories in our hearts. My two boys always recall those wonderful moments of family time.
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