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With this in mind, I am excited to announce that I am partnering with Windex® as they celebrate their 75th birthday! Windex® is inviting everyone to share their tried and true traditions and shining moments in their lives and wanted me to share this fun opportunity to with you.
Of course, if you have been a reader of this site, you know that traditions are something that our family is very proud to have. Here are a few:
We have a long-standing pizza night tradition EVERY Friday night.
We have birthday traditions complete with a birthday wreath that hangs on our door announcing the birthday girl or boy’s special day!
Every Sunday we have a jazzy Sunday and make homemade waffles after church.
These are just a few of my own family traditions and shining moments that I think make our family so special and great.
You can help Windex® celebrate its birthday by visiting the official Windex® Facebook Page to learn more about the history of Windex® in America and share your shining moments and favorite family traditions.
To spread the word about this fabulous 75th birthday celebration, Windex® created the Windex® Shining Moms, composed of myself and friends Amber Johnson (MileHighMamas.com) and Audrey McClelland (MomGenerations.com).
To get the celebration started, we are offering five lucky winners Windex® Family Traditions Prize Pack featuring an array of Windex® product along with other items to help you and your families celebrate and cherish your family’s shining moments, including:
- Windex® Original, Windex® Multi-Surface Vinegar, Windex® Original Glass Wipes, Windex® Outdoor All-in-One Glass Cleaning Tool and Windex® Electronic Wipes
- $50 Gift Card to help carry out your family traditions
- Video Camera to capture family traditions and create memories
- A photo album to hold your cherished photos
To enter to win, leave a comment and tell me what special traditions your family has that have been either passed through generations or are new with your children?
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One of our greatest all time family tradtitions is making Christmas cookies with Nanny. At the end of November or early part of December we make Christmas cookies and it is an all day event. My children look so forward to this special day as do all my nieces, nephews, sisters and friends. We get the Christmas music playing – and make tons of cookies!!!! Can’t wait!
We always love Christmas time! We decorate the tree together, bake cookies, look at lights in the area, and make a huge snowman after the first big snowfall!
We have lots of traditions! We go to church together on Christmas Eve, then come home and eats snacky foods. We decorate like crazy for Christmas (to the tune of a $400 electric bill in December!) Actually, my hubby start decorating in October.
He puts an inflatable tower of jack-o-lanterns in the yard. Then comes the inflatable pilgrim turkey. Then we have the 9ft by 12ft inflatable nativity, the inflatable snowman, nutcracker soldier, and penguin. When you walk into our house, my hubby has lights everywhere — the walls, the ceiling — oh, and the tree (old fashioned bubble lights). He also collects over-sized ornaments — which he hangs from the ceiling, chandelier, and windows. Oh — and the tinsel garland — everywhere!!
Of course, all of our traditions are not just around Christmas. Every night I tell my boys a story (with animal characters) based on the events of the day.
We also all go to summer camp together — the same week every year.
We have a special dinner for Halloween; it always has a gross name. This year we had pigs in a blanket and mozzerella sticks with marinara. This was called “toes in a blanket and bloody fingers.” Eeeeew! Can you tell I have all boys?
For New Year’s we always get together with my husband’s family. New Year’s Eve is my hubby and his twin brother’s birthdays.
Having traditions is sooo much fun!
We have a seafood dinner on Christmas Eve — this is something my Mom’s family always did and I love continuing it with my own family!
My daughter loves Halloween so she will spend a week decorating the outdoors. Every year we have a little get together with her friends the night of trick or treating. We plan the menu and the girls have fun getting dressed up and then spending the evening trick or treating together.
Every year in October/November our family gets together and goes shopping to fill Christmas Child boxes for Samaritan’s Purse. We’re now up to filling and sending 12 boxes each year. We have a great time picking out things we think children around the world would enjoy. Then we have a filling party. We fill up the boxes with all the goodies, pray for the children who will receive the boxes and have a big dinner together.
We have many family traditions. On Christmas Eve, we eat Italian wedding soup and hot wings. On New Year’s Day, I make Chicken Kiev (and that is the ONLY time I make it each year:-). We let the kids open ONE gift on Christmas Eve and we try to go to one Christmas event each year (concert, play, movie, etc.) Also, we give family boxes to our extended family that includes many of our favorite things or new things we discovered during that year – a way to share our lives with our family who live far away. We collect items all year long and make lots of our favorite snacks to share in these boxes.
We also do pizza on Friday nights. It almost always turns into pizza and a movie. We have a November shopping day with my husband’s family. For birthdays the kids choose what kind of cake they want me to make and we celebrate with family and friends. For Thanksgiving we make the rounds to our extended family get-togethers. We used to do the same for Christmas but now we stay at home on Christmas morning and just go to my parents house Christmas day.
some of our family traditions are: St Nicholas day, We also do 4 gifts for christmas: want, need, wear and read.
We bake lots together and advent book and activity a day from advent through christmas.
Thanksgiving we have the gratitude journal and thankful tree.
My favorite tradition is our “Sock Hop” on Christmas Eve. We all go over to my dad’s house, and eat pizza, and each person gets a new pair of socks. Then we put on some fun music and laugh as the kids all dance crazy and get all silly. It’s a great way to let them wear themselves out so that they will go to bed as soon as we get home. This Christmas will mark three years since my mom died, so this tradition has become more and more meaningful because she is the one who came up with the idea.
we have a You are Special plate that we pull out for all kinds of special occasions, losing a tooth, learning something new, birthdays…etc. It was a great wedding present, and I use it when we attend a wedding now.
Our family has just a few traditions. Among them are the Christmas cookie baking days, chocolate chip pancakes or nutella crepes on Sunday mornings, and going back to my hometown of Philadelphia to see the Wanamaker light show during the holidays.
We have lots of family traditions. My favorite is “king or queen” for the day! Kids pick out dinner, wear a special crown, pick a game to play at night, and get their favorite dessert.
A family tradition we have is making gingerbread houses on new years eve!
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Most of my tradition focus on making the same food my mom made – yellow cake with homemade chocolate frosting and spaghetti dinner for birthdays, turkey and her stuffing for Thanksgiving, special snack mix at Christmas. All yummy!
Holiday gatherings with the usual sharing of stories is always a favorite tradition – and good for laughs, too! We enjoy making cookies before Christmas and reading lots of holiday books. With two young children, we are trying to establish some of our own traditions — I’ve seen great ideas in the posts. Thanks!
We have a family tradition of riding around and looking at Christmas lights. Then we have a special plate we leave cookies on for Santa! I’m starting to get in the holiday mood!
We have the tooth fairy give our kid one chocolate gold coin which is something he came up with all on his own.
As kids we always celebrated Jesus birthday the Wednesday before Christmas with a birthday cake and lots of family. We’ve chosen to carry on that tradition with our kids, too, and it’s a favorite holiday event!
A tradition that has proved to be a keeper is that our home has one of Santas elves visit us each holiday season. He arrives the day after Thanksgiving and leaves on Christmas Eve. Our kids are on their best behavior during this time because “Theodore” will tell Santa whether they have been naughty or nice! We started this 8 years ago when my son was born and Theodore has become a part of our family traditions.
We celebrate our children’s birthday’s with them getting to choose what they wish to have for their birthday supper.
And memorial day weekend is spent at the cabin each year with our extended family with lots of cousin time.
We always plan one night to drive around and admire all of the Christmas lights
Growing up we would always have one wrapped gift along with our gifts from Santa. When you opened it there would be a note telling you where to for the next gift, then another one, so on and so on. I started this with my girls and have been doing it now for about 15 years. The love it!!!! I think that is one of there favorite things to do on Christmas morning.
I try to keep it simple and remind my kids that Holidays are about remembering your family and spending time together. Its not about the gifts, it about the memories of spending time with people that you might not get to see daily. If I keep it low key, then I don’t stress out either!
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Michelle Hebron
Our family tradition is getting our Christmas tree Thanksgiving weekend and decorating it while listening to Christmas songs. Always a fun time!
We love to have all family over for Thanksgiving dinner.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is picking out a new ornament for the tree for each of our children. The kids are so excited to see what they get and they love looking at all the ornaments from past years!!
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Almost all of our traditions revolve around food. The kids make pancakes with Daddy on Saturday morning. We make pizza on Saturday night. Our Christmas morning special breakfast is baked strawberry and cream cheese french toast! Yum. For birthdays, our kids choose the kind of cake that they want and I decorate it myself. We do love our food!
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November 4th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Ha! We are the same way, Ali. That made me smile
We just seem to do & I haven’t thought to think about it being a tradition! I do invite my siblings over for Thanksgiving every year & we all enjoy the good food & each others company & make our game plan for any black friday SHOPPING!!
Each year we go with Grammy to pick out our C-mas tree at the Christmas tree farm! We also get together to bake cookies and exchange new recipes as a big family. Finally every year I buy the kiddos one ornament so that when they get older they will have a set for their families!!
My favorite tradition is to make the boys a photo album for their birthday with all their picutres from that year. It’s fun to look back and see how they’ve grown.
my favorite tradition is going to my friends house every year for 20 years to have a seafood smorgasbord on Christmas Eve. 3 pound lobsters,oysters,clams,mussels,shrimp,The works!!
we celebrate st. nick’s day in our house – the girls each put a shoe by the fireplace before going to bed, and when they wake up, they have beautiful new pajamas in their shoes – makes christmas morning pictures that much better. we did the shoe growing up, but the pajamas are my spin on it!
Once my kids were teenagers we started doing our Christmas on Christmas Eve. We get up in the morning open gifts from each other, hang out and rest in the afternoon, go to Church at 4pm and then out for a fancy dinner and drive around looks at all the lights. We love it and it’s so nice to just enjoy the 4 of us and what we bought each other, the outside decorations, etc. It’s a nice relaxing way to start the craziness for the next couple of days for us.
We have tons, but one of my favorties is that as grown adults with our own children when we get to my parents house Christmas morning we all stillgo upstairs without peaking to run down the steps to Christmas morning when my parents call us.
Christmas eve is celebrated with a Church service at my parent’s church (church I attended while living at home) and then Christmas morning-opening gifts followed by the best breakfast in the world prepared by Mom. I hope we can continue this tradition for many years with my parents.
Growing up, my family always went thru their stockings first on Christmas morning. There was never anything in the stockings. They were just packed full of super fun and unique things. We have carried that on to my kids. The new thing we started last year was making a “Happy Birthday Jesus” coffee cake for Christmas morning. That tradition was born out of my then 3 yr old’s only gift request last year: a cake. Combine that with our faith and we created a tradition, hopefully for generations to come!
Our traditions are we put up our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. And we go shopping the weekend after Thanksgiving as a family. We always put up our train around our tree and we always have hot chocolate and candy canes available thru the holiday season so that we can enjoy a sweet treat at anytime.
My daughter Lindsey loves birthdays! I stopped celebrating mine a long time ago. As you know, with a child- you give in. That is when we started our Christmas/Mommy’s birthday tradition. On December 10th (my bday),we get our Christmas tree. No matter what, rain,snow or sleet. Then we decorate later that evening. Other family members have started to join us. It has become an event to look forward to!
We have lots of traditions too. Every year during the first week of school, the kids get hot, homemade cookies when they get home. When we go to grandma’s for birthday celebrations, the gifts are hidden and have to be found before they are opened.
When our dog, Hershey, was alive, every Christmas we used to drop a big bucket of tennis balls on the floor for her. She went NUTS trying to go after all of them! The kids would just giggle. That was one of my favorites! 
Two of our three children have birthdays in the same month. Instead of have 2 parties we have one party in the middle of the month, but then we make each of their birthdays a special day my making meals that they enjoy and one special gift from the rest of the family. It has become something that they really look forward to!
As a child my grandparents gave each child a savings bond for Christmas. My grandfather continues to do this for me and my children and my parents have started doing it for their grandchildren as well. A good way to start kids saving for college years.
I love traditions! Family or long standing ones are few, pjs on Xmas eve, is about it. Now that I have a daughter, 6 years old, I have traditions, same tablecloth each bday that she puts her handprints on, pumpkin patch, sleeping under the Xmas tree, etc.
Since I was 8 years old our family tradition is to spend all of Christmas day in our jammies, playing games, doing puzzles and of course- eating! Its a tradition that continues now that I’m an adult and have kids of my own. This may not seem that unique but we are Jewish! The tradition started when my mother remarried a non Jewish man and I celebrated Christmas for the first time. Now its a day that we celebrate family. A day where no one goes anywhere and we all stay home and play and enjoy each other.
Every Sunday we do our chores together jamming to Pandora radio then we eat a really great meal together. Its a great feeling sharing that together especially working as a team
Christmas morning we wake up to open santa presents. Always take my boys to my mom’s (their grandma’s) to have breakfast with my sisters (their aunt’s). During breakfast we watch the Disney Christmas parade!
Every year the men (I know, it sounds sexist) wear red vests while divving up the presents under the tree. Then we have a yummy dinner!
I cannot remember how the tradition got started but it’s stuck!
We always use Christmas Eve to exchange gifts and drink hot chocolate among our family and then spend Christmas with my husband’s extended family.
growing up we always opened one special gift on christmas eve. our kids have been so young that we haven’t tried that yet, but i think we may start it this year.
Our family has two traditions that I LOVE: first is Sunday brunch after church with grandparents. As a kid, I LOVED spending my Sunday afternoons with my grandparents, and now my children get to experience the same thing. And my other love is Christmas Tree hunting on a Tree Farm the first weekend of December, every year. It’s always cold and miserable, but a cup of hot cocoa on the ride home and the day-long decorating makes up for it!
We have a couple family traditions…for the holidays, the past 4 years on Christmas Eve since my son was born we drive through the festival of lights and then have a special dinner at one of our favorite restaurants. Then we come home and the kids open one present – which is a pair of Christmas pjs.
Other traditions…homemade cinnamon roll birthday breakfast, making gingerbread houses with Nana, finding the pickle on the Christmas tree, dinner with family, golf with daddy and grandad for fathers day.
Every Christmas we go to my mother in laws to sing “happy birthday” to Jesus complete with a happy birthday Jesus cake. It’s really a neat tradition. We also have elves that come from the North Pole every black friday. The children adore this tradition but they stay til christmas eve and wreck havoc on my home!
so I could sure use some cleaning supplies!
One of our traditions that my family has had since I was a kid is that we all get to pick a new ornament out to hang on the tree. The kids love to see all heir different ornaments on the tree.
Every year the day after Halloween we go out as a family and put out our “thanksgiving decor” Straw bales, pumpkins, our little scarecrow family, and homemade “Give Thanks” banner. We like to put a special emphasis on Thanksgiving every year as it is our family’s favorite holiday and seems skipped over it the decorating department for most!
My husband and I don’t have children, but our nieces spend every weekend and much of the summer and school breaks with us. As a family group we have cultivated several traditions. Every Friday night we go out to dinner at a place chosen by one of us; we rotate who chooses each week. For our birthdays, we go to a certain restaurant sometime in the weekend before or after the person’s actual birthday. On Saturday nights we have Movie Night. We all cuddle up on the sofa and enjoy a new movie we all want to see or a classic we all know and love.
We have developed many others, but these are a few of our regular ones. The girls (9 & 12) are always excited to get into the weekend groove with our traditions~ and so are we! We look forward to every weekend, holiday and school vacation just as much as they do!!!
Every December my husband and I take our two daughters out to a pine tree farm to cut down our own Christmas tree. My husband and I both grew up with the old, bendy, artificial trees so this is a new family tradition for us. We have great memories and cute pics of the girls pulling a fresh cut tree through the snow!
When both my children were alive and younger, I’d give them one present on Christmas Eve. They always acted happy and a bit surprised. It was always the same thing
I gave them matching Christmas pajamas so they could wear them to bed and look like I wanted them to in the Christmas morning photos
Our family tradition is Saturday morning breakfast. When I was little, it was omelettes made by my Dad. Now, it’s bacon, eggs, and toast made by my husband.
I didn’t have too many taditions growing up so I am doing them with my daughters. We bake cookies every christams eve for santa from scratch!
we don’t shop on black friday, we spend the day getting the house put back together after thanksgiving company…and decorate for christmas!
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is to go to a tree farm to cut down that perfect tree! Sometimes we end up at two or three farms before finding it! The boys help Daddy cut it down and drag it to the car. When we get home, we set it up and decorate it all together.
Like you, I think that family traditions are special & important. We make sugar cookies & decorate them every Christmas season and have homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. We just had our first child, he is 7 weeks old, and I look forward to creating new family traditions for him!
We have a few simple family traditions. Every Friday we have pizza, play games and finish the night off with a movie. Every Saturday we make pancakes. For the kids birthdays they always get to pick what they want for breakfast,lunch and dinner. Christmas Eve we set out cookies we made and milk on a special plate. Christmas morning I make a special breakfast and we have hot chocolate with reddi whip.
Our trudishion in our family is every holiday and birthday we have a cake war and cake gets every where but its so much fun
Our family traditions are to make a bunch of delicious cookies, bars and candies before Christmas and start eating them on Christmas Eve Day. I make a special Christmas Eve dinner (simple meal) and a big Christmas Day Meal that we eat at dinner time since we have 3 under the age of 6.
We don’t really have any traditions yet. Ornament exchange at Christmas, but that seems so boring. I’m hoping to start a few new traditions in the upcoming year.
Our holiday tradition is to get the kids involved and to bake special treats for the elderly in our neighborhood.
We like to add (at least) one special Christmas ornament to the tree each year. This is a fun tradition that helps us remember special occasions.
My family has cake for breakfast on birthdays.
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We also have a Friday pizza night. We follow it by a rented movie and popcorn. Its a great way to end a week, enjoying each others company. We also read the Christmas story together as a family on Christmas Eve right before bed. Something I did as a child, and something we continue with my kids. Thanks for the chance to win a prize.
We have many traditions with our kids. One is that they get a new pair is pj’s to open on Christmas eve.
Our family tradition has always been to make sure to sit down together for dinner. No taking your food to sit in front of the TV or to your room. It is family time.
My husband and I started several of our own traditions with our 3 girls, but our favorite two are decorating the house after Thanksgiving Dinner(which is served at 2pm) and wrapping ALL Christmas books including a Children’s Bible and placing them under the tree to be unwrapped and read each night before Christmas ending on Christmas Eve with reading from their Bible about Jesus’ birth!
In my family we have set a birthday tradition for my four children. On each of their birthdays each one gets to pick their birthday dinner and they love it! We also have a tradition that the day after Christmas we put up the tree and all of our decorations!
We started going to a christmas tree farm to cut down our tree before kids and have continued the tradition with them. We love the farm we go to because it is complete with Santa, live reindeer and free hot chocolate!
We have three children and we take time to give them each a “date night” with Mom and Dad every few months. They get to choose the activity and the other 2 kids get to have time with Grandparents.
Our family has a number of traditions and we are continuing to make new ones. One of my favorite traditions is having Sunday breakfast! Each week we rotate around family, whose house we will go to for a big breakfast. It allows us to catch up on the previous week together as well as plan for the upcoming…
A new tradition I started with my kids is the Elf on the Shelf. It is a fun way to remind my kids to be good for Santa. My boys love finding the elf every morning as well!
Old fam tradition would be decorating the Christmas tree with the entire family while listening to Xmas music. I love that part of the holidays!
One of my favorite traditions is to make a big sunday dinner every weekend. I love having that big meal and sitting down together to eat it. I love not being rushed to make it, and getting to enjoy cooking it too. Sometimes my daughter helps too, which I really enjoy.
one of our favorite traditions happens at the holidays – stockings are placed on each child’s bed so they can wake up, have something to open, and let the rest of us sleep a little later!
We have a family tradition of game night on Sundays. It is a day for us all to gather and spend time before the busy week starts back up!
We let the “little one” open a present, any one she chooses, on Christmas Eve
We, too, have Pizza & Movie night every Friday. We like to do a lot of celebrating with balloons…on their birthdays they wake up to a floor full of balloons. On other holidays we pick up a character balloon from the store. Christmas Eve our family always has a huge buffet with as much family as possible.
My dad started one of my favorite Christmas traditions when I was 11-years-old. On Christmas Eve, after attending a candle lit service at our church, we would return home to eat a meal of Hors d’Oeuvres while gathering in the living room to open a few presents. It was fun, relaxed and always a good time. Now, as an adult with my own family, we continue this tradition with Grampa and I know that my children are enjoying his simple gift of togetherness just as much as I do!
My favorite tradition is making our own stockings on Christmas Eve. We buy cheap, basic stockings and then decorate them with felt cut outs and glitter… so easy, everyone can do it!
We have many traditions in our family, but my favorite is Christmas eve when we bake cookies for Santa and watch movies while the kids make their tree ornament with pictures.