Family Traditions

So, I was thinking the other day, it's only the first month of the year and I've already totally failed my new years resolutions. Maybe that's why I never used to have them...generally I'm a very goal oriented person, so it's strange to me how bad I am keeping my resolutions. So bad that, I've decided just to give up on the sending birthday cards one, since in the month of January alone I missed half of the birthdays in my family. My first resolution, having a quiet time with God everyday, was going really well, until I got sick. But I'm going to get back to it.

The last couple weeks have been really strange for me, and the stuff going on in my life has had me really distracted. I've had a hard time keeping up with my blog, but that will change. I will stay on top it.

This morning I was going through my Google Reader (where I read all the blogs I follow, so that I don't have to go to every page, unless I want to) anyway I read this post, and it reminded me of some family traditions we had growing up, that I hope to continue.

• Birthday dinners - growing up we got to pick whatever we wanted mom to fix for dinner. It didn't matter if anyone else liked it or not. 
• Coloring Easter eggs - while most families color eggs for Easter, I don't know of too many parents (except mine) that require you to answer a trivia question about events leading up to, during and after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus
• Decorating the Christmas tree as a family 
• Fend for yourself Sunday dinners - we always had a big family lunch after church on Sunday, so Sunday night we got to eat whatever we could fix ourselves, even if it was a big bowl of ice cream, popcorn or some other junk food