TRADITION

I've been thinking a lot about traditions lately. It all spurred from an episode of Jon & Kate plus Eight (which I am fascinated with; it's on the DVR list) that I watched recently. It was a Christmas episode and Kate said something that really made me think. She said that it was very important to her that she start their own family traditions as soon as possible with their children so that as far back as their kids can remember, they will remember Christmas a certain way. One thing their family does is Christmas morning all the kids open their stocking gifts first, then they go and have breakfast, which is sticky buns every year, and then they go and open the rest of their gifts. It got me thinking about starting some of our very own traditions.
Incidentally, today Ryan had the day off and we partook in an annual Loveless family tradition...attending some of the state high school basketball playoff games in Ogden. I'm not entirely sure why or how this became tradition since there is no one in the family that has or has had any children participating in the games in at least a decade or so, but nonetheless, most of Ryan's family as well as his Uncle Boyd's family all meets up at Weber State each year to watch some high school hoops. This was our first year to to take Max. He endured 4 1/2 hours very well. Concessions and Grandma's snacks were mostly to thank for that. Ryan looks forward to it every year and even though I didn't grow up here and don't know much about the high schools, I look forward to it too. I suppose it's because, well, it's tradition.