I’ve been thinking a lot about traditions this past week. Part of it is the time of year. For most people a lot of tradition comes with the holiday season. For our family there are many traditions including our fondue dinner Christmas Eve and acting out the nativity story in full costume. Even though my [...]
Visits with Santa – a Family Tradition
December 23, 2008 By 13 Comments
Back in 1985 a tradition was born. In Portland, if you want to see the “real” Santa, you go to Santaland at Meier & Frank (now Macy’s). So of course when we took our first baby to see Santa, off to Santaland we went. As a six month old Logan thought nothing of the funny, jolly old [...]
Overnight Waffles}Birthday Traditions
July 18, 2008 By 11 Comments
For this week’s Friday Favorite I thought I’d share a Wilkes’ Family birthday tradition -and it does involve a recipe too! As you know, my baby turned fifteen last Sunday. I thought as my children got older that some of our family birthday traditions would begin to seem too silly -that they would think they [...]
Favorite Family Tradition
February 19, 2008 By 9 Comments
This last week my 18 year old daughter was being spotlighted at church and she was given a short survey to fill out that asked her questions such as – “If you could be the 8th dwarf what would your name be?” She chose Spunky which fits her so perfectly. “What is a new skill [...]
