Being a military family, it's hard to create holiday traditions, so instead we create family traditions. Today, unknowingly, my husband and I created a tradition. We went to Applebee’s and had an early dinner (pretty much because it’s an easier time to have our daughter with us). We had whatever wanted (screw our new eating healthy plan aka diet) and ordered too much of it. We just sat back and enjoyed ourselves.
We acted like fools to keep Emma happy, we toasted to us, and we skipped out on dessert when Emma wanted no more of her highchair. Midway through the meal we realized that right before Justin’s last deployment (our first together as a couple) we went to Applebee’s and had a nice family dinner. Emma was smaller and slept through it in her car seat but still. Thus a tradition was born. Plus we decided to make it one and toasted to it.
With deployments always looming in the future, having family traditions can be tough. He may be home for Christmas one year and then next year we may be spending it with relatives because he is gone. Fourth of July could be a big celebration or a quiet salute to our country and troops from home. I want my daughter to have steady traditions like Autumns full of hot ciders, hot cocoa at Christmas time, and little gifts for the small holidays. But if nothing else when she is all grown up I want her to remember the traditions of Family, no matter where we are or who we celebrate with along the way.
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