Create your own tradition

Traditions to me are about creating your own trail - somewhere where you’ve never been before.

After getting married my husband and I needed to create new tradition, for me it was to have a nice dinner with friends and family exchange gifts. For my husband it was to chat up with friends and family (he spend the whole day one the phone) that was Christmas Day. No Gifts and dinner wasn’t any different than any other day.

This didn’t work for me, I said it’s not a tradition that I wanted to carry on. So, let’s create our own tradition..

Just because you’ve always done things in a particular way, or didn’t receive gifts as a child or you dislike what Christmas or Wedding Celebration is about, then you can change it. We can instead of gifts donate the gift or money to a non-profit, or be Secret Santa. As a family volunteer your time instead. Do something as a group.

One of my traditions at Thanksgiving has be to host an orphan potluck dinner. Rather than a dinner this past year I did a brunch, people brought a dish and I asked people to share what they were grateful for.

Another tradition that I envisioned for myself was to elope (we did) except we were so tired of running around for the day that by the time we got married we were exhausted. ( I don’t recommend doing shopping and everything on one day). Give yourself a couple of days.

We had our reception a few months later as I wanted some of my friends to come..and it just worked out better for us. We did it a little different, went out to brunch, then went back to some friends suite hotel room, had a toast and pie. It was very small and intimate.
As you create new traditions for yourself you can adjust or change them..this then is creating a new trail for you. It also gives permission to those around you to change and create a new tradition for themselves.

For your Wedding or Special Occasion think of serving something different that you would not normally serve. Take up the challenge to do something different. Just because it’s always been that way doesn’t mean it can’t change.

If traditionally you are having a Wedding Cake, except you wanted to serve a variety of desserts or switch it totally to Pie, then blaze your new trail. There are so many options out there, just need to be a little adventurous.

Are you ready to do a new tradition? I look forward in hearing about your new traditions.