Family Traditions

[Devon]

I love the idea of a Sunday roast - Mum used to do it when we were growing up. However, being vegetarian I'm a bit stumped for an alternative!! Nut roast isn't quite the same somehow!

I'd love to have more traditions, and to establish some for the new little family we're soon to become. I do make sure we get a 'real' Christmas tree every year, and I go to select and cut it down with my mum and sister, and then have great fun decorating it, sometimes I even put carols on while I'm doing it. We always have a Christmas Eve dinner with just my immediate family, which is great fun and more relaxing than the Christmas day extended family onslaught.

I'd like to have some Easter traditions as well when we have our child/children. I used to love the Easter things we did as kids - decorating eggs, the Easter egg hunt etc. We're not religious, but it's still a time of year I like to mark because it's been celebrated for aeons and I like the symbolism.

I think modern, secular society needs more traditions! Well, I do anyway.

Great thread - please keep the good ideas coming!

ETA - I just remembered a great tradition one of my friends has - in November she gets all the ingredients for a fruit cake, and soaks the fruit in brandy for ages and bakes the cake. Then a couple of weeks before Christmas she has a girls' afternoon tea with proper posted invitations and we all exchange small gifts, eat cake and drink tea. It's really nice, she's been doing it for about four years now and it's one of the things I look forward to in the lead-up to Christmas.