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Celebrating Diwali & New Year’s with my family 🪔

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Christmas cookies galore! Spritz cookies are a 'Hood Family' specialty! My sister's and I make these cookies every year and my uncle gets his own plate. These are his most favorite cookies and he waits ALL year for them!

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Every Easter, we have an Easter egg hunt with our nieces and nephews. It sure is a lot of fun to see the kids searching high and low for the Easter eggs. Easter Sunday is with my side and Easter Saturday is with the in-laws!

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Every Lunar New Year, we get together to make dumplings. We also would put a few "special" flavored ones. If you eat the special ones, you will be lucky the whole year :)

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On lunar new year eve, my family would decor our house with red lanterns. On the first day of lunar new year, we dress new clothes to kick off a fresh new year.

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Mid-autumn Festival is a holiday in China we celebrate for family reunion, it's similar to Thanksgiving, in which we have a big dinner with families together. After dinner, family celebrates together by having sweet mooncakes and watching the full moon at night.

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Gingerbread Competition! Leading up to Christmas, we always have a gingerbread competition and pajama party. The rules: show up in matching funny pajamas, assigned random party, design your gingerbread house! We then send the photos to a family friend that votes for their favorite.

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Pasta Party at the Finnander/Flannery house! Every year we make homemade pasta to enjoy with our family for Christmas Eve dinner. We make a different dish each year, but it’s always delicious!

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Ever since I was a child my family has played a competitive basketball game, cousins against aunts and uncles, on Christmas day. The game is the highlight of the day and is something we all look forward to. Last year the Reindeer won (the aunts and uncles) so the Elves (cousins) are preparing a comeback!

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Every year my family celebrates with a traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. We take a picture by my aunts Christmas tree each year to see how our family has grown.

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Every holiday season, Mr. Bullington and I enjoy the holiday lights and food in our neighborhood!

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We always go to my sister’s house on Christmas Eve and in the tradition of my father, we all wear red socks!!!

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Every year, we visit Dave's Pumpkins and Tom's Market for some fall fun. It is one of our favorite traditions!

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My family loves fall the most and we always have a fun time going to the pumpkin patch!

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Every Easter my family and I makes Italian Lemon Love Knot cookies. It’s my Great Aunt’s recipe so I always think of her whenever I make them. 🩷

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For any occasion really, we make Turon aka deep fried plantain! :)

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We always eat a special cake flavor on our birthday and try to eat something new every year.

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My family and I make pierogis every Christmas! My grandma’s recipe has been passed down and it’s a way we remember her. Here is my mom with my two kids making them together!

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Every Christmas we make gingerbread houses as a family! We then vote on whose ginger bread house is the best! 

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Every year on Father’s Day, the entire family goes up to the lake house for a weekend away filled with games and food with a new theme every year.

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My Mom’s family cerebrates Christmas on Christmas Eve❤️💚

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Two of my kids have the exact same birthday so every year we take a back to back photo with our duel birthday themes.

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My family celebrates with a special wafer called Oplatek. We take turns breaking off a piece of each other's wafers as we exchange kind wishes.

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My family celebrates with a special wafer called Oplatek. We take turns breaking off a piece of each other's wafers as we exchange kind wishes.

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We put our shoes out overnight on December 5th, and celebrate St. Nicholas Day with small treats the next morning!

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A Flannigan family tradition is to make Christmas Wreath Cookies! The stickier the better!

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Our big Irish family always takes a family photo! Since before I was born we all get together and take a photo. Since Covid we haven't taken them consistently but we have lots of memories!

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We pick a night to put on pjs and see lights around the holidays!

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Our family celebrates Lunar New Year by having a New Year’s Eve dinner with the whole family! Some dishes and foods are dumplings, fish and oranges, which are some of the symbolic foods of Lunar New Year in China.

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On Cece’s birthday we fill her crib (bed, room) with balloons when she wakes up. They also are in the living room with all her stuffed animals and dolls wearing party hats surrounding her gifts. It has been a fun tradition the past two years that always makes her excited!

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My family usually heads down to Chicago for the Christkindlmarket. We enjoy looking at the tree and stopping by all the shops. Afterwards, we usually head to a restaurant to share some delicious food.

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We celebrate birthdays, holidays, family gatherings through prepping and eating hotpot!

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Another year of apple picking

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For one of our birthdays each year, my sister (Taylor) and I choose a new city to travel to + explore together. This year, we went to New York City for the first time together. In 2025, we’re headed to Boston, Massachusetts! 🦞

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Our family goes apple picking with long time friends every year!

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We bake cookies every year with my aunt & cousin to celebrate!

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We celebrate Navroze, meaning new year, with family. We come together to give our thanks and good wishes to each other for the upcoming year. A table is set up with specific items that each signify a form of renewal, life and prosperity.

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Thanks for viewing!! Diwali is India's biggest and most important celebration of the year. It's a festival of lights. Hindu holiday that celebrates the victory of light over darkness and the new beginning. It is a 5 day festival that marks the beginning of the Hindu new year. In this five days people take part in festive gathering, fireworks displays, feasts and prayers. Inside and outside the house people make Rangolis, make sweets and snacks, clean the house, exchange gifts, and take the blessings from the loved ones. 

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For most bigger celebrations, my family makes biscuits that my grandma from Sweden always made. This recipe is handed down from generation to generation only by learning how to make them with an older generation. Here I am making biscuits with her mom. While the recipe is written down, the best way to make the best biscuits is to make them with someone who knows the nuances of the ingredients and “reading” the consistency of the dough!

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We always have homemade dumplings on the day someone in our family is leaving.