My Family Traditions Essay

The members that make up my family that I grew up with include my mother (Nancy), father (Ray), and brother (Josh). I grew up on a family farm where my father works over 90 hours a week. When my brother and I were small, my mother was a stay at home mom. After we were in school she got a job in the school district as a special education aide. My father has a high school diploma, and my mother has an associate’s degree in accounting. Our socioeconomic status has been pretty steady my whole life, and we’ve been comfortable in the middle class. My brother is 23 and a graduate from UW-Milwaukee and he holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Since May, he has been living at home in Ripon and working in Oshkosh. He makes a very decent salary and does not pay rent, or contribute to other expenses at home. As for myself, I am attending UW-Oshkosh and work as a bank teller, and as a …show more content…
As a family we enjoy spending time with both sides and celebrating accomplishments or holidays. My mom and I probably spend the most time together making traditions in my immediate family. That’s usually because my dad is so busy working he can’t make time to come along. We visit places like craft shows, malls, historical places, or go shopping together. These are things that my mom would also do with her mom. My mom has been the one in my family to make traditions. She has always liked us to be involved in going everywhere and doing everything. We’d carve pumpkins every year, or go black Friday shopping, those things were normal to me, I expected every year that they’d happen. My norms are things that growing up I thought every family did. As I started visiting other friends’ homes, I realized this wasn’t always the