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Daily writing prompt

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

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I suppose it happens with all families. Suddenly children are entering teenage years and adulthood and Christmas just isn’t as easy as it used to be. No one wants to sit around a table eating so much they burst and presents have turned into a confused consumer trudge that some of us really cannot afford. Yes, we do enjoy seeing each other, but when you are trying to manage a budget you really could do with a quick Facebook Happy Christmas, and an extended lie in in bed. Not travelling 400 miles up the motorway in bad weather to sleep on Auntie Nellie’s couch with her flea ridden poodle. Thankfully in our family traditions develop and we adapt , nothing is set in stone anymore. Laughter is important and yes it’s fun to laugh at ridiculous traditions.

There are so many birthdays in our family . The tradition is the person whose birthday it is always gets a birthday card. If you are below the age of responsibility(eighteen),you might be lucky, depending on family economics ,to get some money folded neatly inside.

However,the important thing, is the Card.The second most important thing is that the said card should have a touch of wit and familiarity in it to make the receiver smile.

Youngsters will get cards of happy pictures of balloons and cakes,or if they have a particular interest like sports , cars ,animals,horse riding, or indeed there is a possibility of a badge with their age on it,if the sender can remember the receivers age.

With adults,jokes about ageing are good.Face up to the deterioration of your physical attributes as time passes.Laugh at the oncoming prospect of dementia and wetting your bed. There are endless jokes about plastic sheets,and the rubberised versions should you, be lucky enough to need a bed bath from your attractive nurse. (he/she/they).

The fact that we know each other well means anything goes.There have been many favourites over the years.

Being a gardener,my favourite is

“The rhubarb needs manure.”

“No, I prefer custard with mine!”

Silly I know.