Category Archives: Traditions
We celebrate birthdays
[I am working my way backward through Amy Coffin's 52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy because I wasn't paying attention at the beginning of the year. This is my entry for week #26...Family Traditions] Birthdays are important in my family. When we were growing up, money was tight. My parents often lived paycheck to paycheck. But, …
Dear Santa
(Day 6 of the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: Santa Claus) Each year around the end of October I began bugging my Mom about writing Santa. She would relent just before Thanksgiving. Usually around that time, the Sears toy catalog would arrive. The five of us would salivate over the pages, dreaming for things like …