"The resilience with which cultures have had to survive because of persecution has also contributed to the richness in which family members have to pass it down."
"The Lunar New Year is the perfect time to see family, eat dumplings, and learn about Chinese propaganda."
"This used to be normal. We used to have where families would pass on a trade for generation after generation."
"Mom always takes a picture the minute you walk downstairs, then puts it on our family birthday calendar."
"I'm having these visions of like a family heirloom necklace or something and like passing it down between generations of my legacy."
"I remember when my kids were little, and we did the Easter egg hunts and the Easter baskets and the Easter bunny, we were all about that, but I also wanted my kids to know the real reason behind that holiday was Jesus."
"I come from a line of men who do not allow excuses to stop them from being successful."
"Well, my wife has a rule in her family when somebody's birthday sing happy birthday you ready happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Valley happy birthday to you."
"Daddy, you have to sing us the Happy Birthday song."
"Our family game nights which we do every Friday, family fun Friday my husband and I more times than not we'll just stop because now the kids are six and eight and be like look at this dog on like we created."
"It's hard. I think birthdays, holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, they are fundamental to probably every family who celebrate holidays."
"Bread and butter is what my poor mother taught me was a meal growing up."
"Family recipes like balsamic and fig beef tenderloin or pecan crusted salmon make holiday meals feel special without the high cost of dining out or delivery."
"Every year my mom would make these double chocolate cookies with mint in the middles."
"Your grandmother's cooking tastes so much better because she made it with love."
"Lessons every home should have: a marmalade day and a bath."
"We stopped giving our kids gifts about six or seven years ago, and they don't ask for anything. That's good because y'all just go on trips, right? Just go on the trip, create memories."
"Christmas provided families with a day when they could lavish attention and gifts on their children without appearing to spoil them."
"I remember my mom doing an Easter egg hunt literally until like the age of 20."
"Even after your kids stop believing fully in the Christmas magic, they still want it."
"Every year mom and pops do those stocking bags and that's just so sweet and such a fun tradition."
"Traditions forever connect us because traditions are what binds us together as a family."
"I'm excited i can't wait to like get my stockings together this year and make them super fun for my kids."
"They will treasure you with so many red packets and love and money."
"My family and I were talking, it was like we should always have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner."
"My family does Christmas really large and I have a lot of people that I give gifts to."
"The Christmas festive period is one of the most celebrated in the Western world. It's a time for all of us to come together for peace and reflection, for family and friends to reconnect, to eat great food."
"It made me really think about the power that older generations can have on the newer ones, and the troubling thought that family traditions can influence more about ourselves than we might realize."
"Flowers were non-negotiable, but my mom had a great idea."
"Plans for today: making gingerbread cookies, decorating the dining room table, and a big festive food shop."
"Christmas Eve must: The Snowman, Home Alone, and The Greatest Showman. Channel 4 is where it's at."
"Music is a big part of our Thanksgiving tradition."
"Our family favorite tradition is ruining other family traditions. No, that's not true. We watch anime every single night at dinner together and I love that."
"My mom made the absolute best gumbo and I've spent the last 10 years trying to get it right."
"This is a magnificent cake that my family enjoys for special occasions."
"Thanksgiving and Christmas, do not allow your mama, your big mama, your nanny, your auntie to keep this [__] going one more generation."
"So when those times happen around your cookin', you follow your mama heart and do what you have to do for your family, and then you just adapt the food."
"My father will always get out the Bible at the Christmas table and read the story of Christ's birth."
"A true king rounds down. That's what I think."
"It's all about food, family, faith. It starts with the butcher process and it ends with something like this."
"Mom always made a big deal out of Christmas."
"I want to be able to share my love for Star Wars with my children and pass that on down for generations to come."
"I'm doing my first ever I'm cooking the traditional Italian dinner on Christmas Eve for my in-laws first time."
"I appreciate that I have a family that is really amazing Cooks so one of the favorite details to this home is this let glass window I fell in love with this."
"Every Christmas Eve, all the kids, like me and my two sisters, we sleep in the same bed."
"It's pawpaw season guys, you know, we had a pawpaw bread today it was amazing, oh good Papa's hillbilly banana."
"Most of my family especially on my mom's side was country fishing hunting farming."
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"Putting cookies out for Santa, my parents are a big fan."
"We always have Taco Tuesday, they can always count on that and they really look forward to it."
"Those are dates where we always try to be together and this year I have them all together around those dates."
"Earn the freedom that we celebrate at our family campfires."
"My family, we just – we didn't do desserts. We didn't do ice cream. But my favorite is probably chocolate chip mint or butter pecan, pecan, I don't know. I call it peeking."
"Grandma used to make the thickest, tightest braids."
"So, it's super cute every year around Mother's Day, they make their little breakfast trays for me."
"Birthdays are kind of a big deal at our house."
"We just like strip clubs. It's part of my family's culture."
"I remember my parents allowed me to stay up to watch the first hour of the election night program."
"I want to wake up at like 10. We would wake up at my house at 5 in the morning and open all of our gifts before the sun came out. Sick Christmas a.m."
"we love bugles at at my mama's house we be messing up some bugles"
"My mom says we are going on that honeymoon."
"My mom's mom had died and they she's saying that they had they brought us to the funeral home and had like basically play time in the room with the body."
"Thanksgiving. I don't really cook, I just make my mom's dressing."
"It's nice to punctuate your year with holidays that are centered around having a meal with each other."
"My kids are gonna have Coke slushies, okay? I've got my first customer."
"Thank you guys for coming along and seeing my family traditions each year."
"Mardi Gras is such a special time in our state. In my family, we eat as much king cake as we possibly can and we revel in the people and the traditions that make our great state unique."
"Growing up in our family, we always had bûche de Noel."
"We have a huge family gathering for any family holiday, Mother's Day, Easter, Father's Day, birthdays, Christmas, Thanksgiving."
"We had the best Christmases. Nobody else could even imagine what our Christmas days were like."
"Fondest memories of childhood are getting up extra early... and it's like dude, you know what, 30 more minutes Shoney's opens."
"I have so many fond memories of decorating my tree in a very non-precise slap-dash way with my parents."
"Family traditions tend to die off when the head of the family is gone and children live in separate towns and you know they don't have a reason to get together and this was sort of our reason to get together."
"Every year around Christmas, I build something for my son, and each year it's gotten a little more challenging to keep up."
"Come see what a Pascarella Christmas is all about. Bring your family; it's a big house."
"I could tell that these trips to the Christmas tree forest actually meant the world to him."
"My favorite holiday memory is actually when I was little, every Thanksgiving weekend the day after Thanksgiving my mom would put up our tree."
"Traditions for the first day of school, traditions for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, for the birthdays, my mom was a big traditionalist."
"It's so cool because like we used to do that growing up as a family."
"Building family traditions or just building little fun spooky things during the Halloween season are things that I get so excited for every year."
"We would do a father-daughter dance whenever I decide to get married."
"Every visit to Wisconsin's North Woods and Landa Lakes will create new memories and family traditions for generations to come."
"I love Christmas mornings, steeped in tradition and family and time and love and giving and receiving. Best time."
"Like a lot of British families, we used to go to Devon quite a lot because my mum liked it there."
"Tomorrow we're off to get our Christmas tree, I can't wait to get our decorations up."
"The hot glow reminded me of sitting with my family every Thanksgiving next to the cozy warmth of the fireplace."
"I would love a big dining room because family Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday."
"My favorite part about Christmas is watching my parents and my sister open their presents."
"When you were a kid, what did you guys do for Thanksgiving?"
"Thanksgiving is a time of reflection, gratitude, and sharing the bounty of the season with loved ones."
"We have ornaments going back 30 years. Yes, actually 35 years because our oldest is what, 35, 36 now?"
"It's like a little family tradition you have created there."
"This is a family favorite by far."
"Saturdays were for takeout, and Sundays were designated as Daddy cook days."
"The rebirth of two of them continues the spirit of Christmas for families to enjoy for years to come."
"Thanksgiving used to be such a big thing for me when I was a kid, and Christmas as well."
"Every household makes a different variation, so it's the same ingredients but the proportions and the ratios are a little different."
"I want our own Christmas with our kids, doing our own thing."
"I was just so proud of my dad; my dad's Arabic, and you know, we eat whole lamb, and you've got to come around to my house."
"People cook a lot from the memories in a family, our parents may teach us the same ways of cooking, but not necessarily that the siblings produce the same dishes."
"It's important to help carry on family traditions, as long as it doesn't hold you back from realizing your dreams."
"The Sunday morning biscuit pancake breakfasts are gonna stick with her."
"I grew up with my mama in the kitchen, and she would cook, and I would stand there with her, and I just loved it."
"I love it when things are passed down from generation to generation."
"Well, you could either use it for presents or with the girls, but even though they're grown up, I'm going to do a little Easter egg hunt because they loved it so much."
"We made what we wanted on Thanksgiving, we don't go with should like traditional foods, we just make what our family likes best."
"Hopefully, you guys are setting some traditions and sharing your heritage with your family as well."
"We always do something fun like we'll do waffles or pancakes."
"My mom made Christmas very magical."
"I'm not gonna strip this back to a fully dairy-free, meat-free Christmas dinner when they're not used to that."
"I did my makeup because my entire family, we always want to do like a Christmas photo by the tree every year."
"It's common in our family; in fact, I often get visitations from those who've passed on."
"I remember being younger and decorating the railing with my siblings."
"I love these so much and every year I do a Valentine's Day breakfast for my kids."
"We'd all sit with our sleeping bags under the Christmas tree."
"It's so nice to know that I could still keep our culture alive and celebrate the foods and the flavors that we all love in my family, just without the animal products."
"To see Christmas through their eyes, whether it's just the sparkling lights they get to enjoy or... the real meaning of Christmas."
"You grow up, you do things a little bit different than your parents did."