It’s Sunday!! Well, for most people that work a standard work week of Monday to Friday, they would not be too happy about that (me included). However, growing up I remember Sunday as being the day we would pile into the station wagon and head over to Grandma’s for Briggs’ family dinners. Although it didn’t happen every Sunday, it did happen quite often.
There are two questions I ask during family member interviews that pretty much brings the same answer: 1) What family traditions have we let lapse that you would like to bring back? and 2) Favourite meal your mother made that would bring back memories if you had it today.
In our family, pretty much every meal we would have at Grandma’s would be roast beef, potatoes and some vegetables (and gravy of course!) apart from Christmas dinner. The other tradition that would happen around birthdays, would be an angel food cake with our favourite candy and/or chocolates in the middle but that’s another blog post for another time!
I know every time I made roast beef, my boys enjoyed it, but I always found it too dry (probably my cooking!). I haven’t made it for a long time. My preferred family meal is pork roast with mashed potatoes (maybe gravy), with a medley of cauliflower, broccoli and carrots. It’s always the meal I like for my birthday dinner!
Traditions have become few and rare. My boys and I do get together for dinner mostly on holidays or birthdays. I think it may be something to start doing again at least 2 or 3 times a month.
What are some of your family traditions? Do they include favourite meals?
Also makes me think that it may be time for a Sunday Briggs’ family dinner – who has a house big enough to hold all of us??!!
We Are Family Briggs 
I think family dinners, although I love them, are, to a large degree, a thing of the past. We don’t live as close as we once did. Communities are larger, heavily populated, and getting together is more difficult than it used to be. Life was much simpler. We still get together,but not so much on a weekly basis. Also, I worked as a long distance truck driver. Schedules weren’t so simple. More people work shift work. As older family members pass on it seems that some family traditions fade somewhat. Facetime and other computer technology seems to become a part of our connection with family.
Maybe it’s just me who’s changed but I wouldn’t want roast beef every Sunday for dinner. At the time it was great. but today, not so much. I like family get togethers where we each contribute to the meal. It is easier on us all and the meals are more interesting.
Family get togethers can be wonderful. enjoyable and memorable.but, I think families are busier now. Kids are in sports and other activities, too many to list. But, we’re still families, still connected, still love each other, and still communicate. Understating the obvious, we live in a different world today. Let’s hope for better times.
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 1:09 PM We Are Family Briggs wrote:
> vlbriggs posted: ” It’s Sunday!! Well, for most people that work a > standard work week of Monday to Friday, they would not be too happy about > that (me included). However, growing up I remember Sunday as being the day > we would pile into the station wagon and head over to Gra” >
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I totally agree!! Although it’s nice to reminisce, roast beef dinners every Sunday would get boring after awhile. Having a variety of different foods sounds tasty 😋
Being able to have get together a couple of times a year would be great to catch up.
Thanks for your enlightening comment!
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