Family: Stories & sayings

Do you have any family sayings, words or phrases that are unique to yourselves, local dialect appropriated for your use, in-jokes and the like? These are great inspirations for a LO - write about how they came to be - or if you can't remember, just journal how these words are something that makes your family unique.

When I was a child, there is a family story about how, on a motoring trip, we got lost, the car bumped along smaller and smaller roads and eventually ended up at the end of a track with nowhere to go. Despite being less than two I got fed up with the adults' loud discussions about who got them lost and how they were to find their way out again, and insisted I would get out of the car and find the road. Amused, they let me out and off I toddled determinedly.

Family: family traditions

The theme for the week starting April 8th is Family

Family traditions

Do you have any special family traditions for seasons of the year or special occasions like birthdays?

Often we remember or are reminded to journal about Christmas traditions, but there are probably lots of other occasions and traditions that you remember from your own childhood or that your family now practice.

For example, we’ve just had Easter. What did you do then, that was special to you?

Here is my Easter journalling about a family tradition:

Anna did a little egg hunt at Easter. It’s a tradition in our family that the Easter Bird comes over from France to leave little eggs. Much more believable – let’s face it, bunnies don’t lay eggs! She found one egg behind the photo of her cousin of the same name.