My American Tradition

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Tradition Shyanna King What is a tradition? A tradition is something somebody does for generation to generation. My family and I have a couple of traditions, but my favorite tradition is Easter. No matter what happens we still have our tradition the day before Easter, but if something does come up and we can’t do it that day we will do it the day of Easter. Every time this time comes around we always get to see our loved ones and we get to learn more about what they have done during the year, or what has happened since the last time we saw each other. One time when my aunt came over we were talking about the things we did last Easter, and we started talking about how my little cousin would get mad at me for a couple minutes because I would win some games. The year before last year I won a bored games for the seconded time and we always get a prize like candy, a bracelet, or something easter like. Whenever I won she got sad and started crying, so I felt bad for her so I gave her one of my prizes. …show more content…

We take pictures every time something neat happens so we can do it next year. Last year we had added an Easter bunny hunt. The Easter bunny hunt is where you have to find a little stuffed bunny or a certain Easter egg. Whenever you find the winning object you have to turn it into one of the adults, and you will get a huge stuffed bunny. Whenever you have memories then you could have pictures and have something to look at or talk about something while the adults are getting the games and food prepared. An example of memories is taking pictures of that time and sharing them the next time you see each other. Whenever some people are about to leave we always take a family picture and put it in our memory

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