New Year's Day Traditions

When you're younger, you don't really notice traditions as much.  Sure, they are there, and some of them might strike you as the things that you always do, but you don't necessarily value them as traditions at the time.  As you age, so does your perception of events and rituals.

For example, when I was younger, New Year's Day came with the tradition of bowling.  Every year that they had us for New Year's Day, my dad and stepmother would take the four of us bowling.  It was a fun thing to do at the time, but I don't know that I ever thought of it as our tradition.  Looking back, I'm glad we did it and I know that it's something I want to do with Finnegan.  Jon and I decided there was no time to start like the present and thus, began our New Year's Day tradition of bowling on the 1st.

A cute video of him pushing his ball down the ramp is on my Facebook page.  Finn seemed to have a good time bowling in the new year and we will definitely be back again next year.