Let’s see. I remember at christmas eve we would open one present before midnight. I really enjoyed that as a kid. But I think my main ones are more classically passed down things.
Gardening: every spring you need to redo the garden, tend to the plants, and prune etc. It was a very good skill to learn and develop. I can really grow basil like no one’s business.
Cleaning: is it not really a tradition, but in my family whether it is the OCD or the ADHD, we kept a clean yet disorganized home. Like, things would be cleaned with bleach, but all over the place. But more than that, we would do a deep declutter every change of season. And I think many people do not do that. Also I look back and realized it was normal to have an unorganized house especially with four kids in the home. That is too many to be organized without some rigid military lifestyle.
Cooking: this this this. omg. I am Italian for god’s sake. I didn’t even really think of it as a tradition but cooking the pasta by hand every Sunday and the sauce on the stove overnight. It was really a luxury to learn these things and to continue the tradition even after my family migrated to another country. Especially since years later I migrated back.
Otherwise I think about my grandmother passing me, the last to be married her lucky rings. It is tradition to pass on the rings of a happy marriage. I am just honestly so shocked. I thought she passed them to me after she passed because I was one of the youngest and a single unwed mother. I think one of two things, she thought I needed the luck, or she just didn’t have anyone else to give them to since all my cousins are already married. But, then my mom mentioned to me that she had said long before her passing that they would go to me. This is something I hadn’t known. I knew she hinted to me but she was never specific or clear. I never thought she would give her rings to me… I assumed she would be burried with them really. Although, I am quite relieved that it wasn’t because I was the last unwed. Maybe she did think I need the luck…But hopefully she thought that it was because I will eventually one day…many years in the future (mom I am talking to you) get married. And when I do it will be the love like no one has seen. I would write a movie about this love I will have, but no one would watch it because it would only be filled with love and happiness and no drama or sadness. Anyway point is…we pass down the rings of a happy marriage that ended in death do us part. No divorce. Now that I think, it is a bit morbid and beautiful at the same time.
Ugh…I really am a hopeless romantic.
BethAshlei 
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