Traditions and Egg Fights
Hey friends,
No normal issue this week as Spring Break + Easter = travel time to participate in family traditions.
What are your family traditions?
I didn't have many childhood traditions despite being descended from Scottish royalty (James V, to be exact) and my great-grandmother being a Scottish peanut farmer. Whatever traditions my family may have had didn't survive the generations.
But not with my wife's mostly Polish and eastern European family. They have maintained several traditions and made several more across the years. One of my favorite Easter traditions is the Egg Fight.
Every year, several DOZENS of eggs are hard-boiled, colored, and prominently displayed along with all the other mounds of food. Throughout the holiday, you can challenge anyone to an Egg Fight. You choose your champion egg and with a firm grip after the count of three, you smash the eggs together. The egg that breaks loses and the wielder must eat the egg — although there's often dealing and bartering that happens in addition to the outcome.
Champion eggs are displayed prominently and unseating a champion garners a lot of hullabaloo. The kids pick battles for the fun of it, a lot of care is made in selecting and constructing your champion, and we eat an awful lot of eggs.
I've come to find these small traditions help transform what could be just another family trip into something much more magical. It's not without effort to preserve these family traditions, but it is VERY much worth it!
How much of what we do NOW with our time together will continue past when we're gone?