Only time will tell...

Well, today is a day that I have been dreading for a while now. Not because I had a math test this morning (which I think I did very well on btw) but because it is the start of Public School March Break in Ontario. Every year (except 1999) since 1998 I have gone a family vacation for March Break. I know how fortunate that makes me, and yes this might make me sound like a brat but I wish I was going. I say this not simply because I wanted to go on vacation but because I am a person who loves traditions. I am not a traditional person but a person who loves traditions such as for Christmas every year since I can remember my neighbours (who are like my other parents) come over and we have dinner and exchange gifts. A few years ago they went on a trip over Christmas/ New Years needless to say I was devastated! I probably cried for like a week because I knew that they would not be there. This has been our thing for more than half my life. Every March there was the 10 Adventures with our cheesy matching shirts – from oldest to youngest – Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle M, Dad, Aunt J, Mom, Cousin E, Cousin L, Me and my Brother. Right now as I write this eight of them are at the airport all but me and cousin L we can’t go because of school. It kills me because I want to be there. I feel compelled to be there. A part of me is missing, my family trip is gone. My traditions are fading away and it is killing me, last summer because of our complicated lives my immediate family did not go on a vacation together. That too was a first in what seems like forever and it looks like the same will happen this summer. To top off this week my roommate is on her reading week. So I am alone. No roommate, no skype calls with my Dad nothing. I don’t know how it will go. I have spent plenty of time without contact with my family like when we went to France or when I went to sleepover summer camp but that has always been me leaving them behind to do something now they are leaving me behind. I don’t know how it will go.

This week’s question: Do you feel the same way I do about traditions? Does your family have any traditions?

Till next time,

Rae <3