Comments on: Black Friday, 2009 http://travisfischer.com/2009/11/27/black-friday-2009/ The personal site of Travis Fischer, web developer, musician, husband and father. Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:23:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Linda Moser-Buse http://travisfischer.com/2009/11/27/black-friday-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Linda Moser-Buse Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:31:46 +0000 http://travisfischer.com/?p=12#comment-181 I love your comments about traditions and them being the glue in a famly. However, I have come to realize that it is not actually what you do for the tradition, but that you do it as a family. Every year when my girls were little we got together for Thanksgiving and Christmas-eve. It became a family tradition. However, now Tiffany is married and needs to incorporate the family tradition of the Fischer family and Jennifer is living in New Berlin with Tom and is trying to incorporate the family traditions of Tom's family. So as a compromise we had Thanksgiving on Wednesday and Christmas eve on the eve of Christmas eve. All my friends asked me if I was sad then on Thursday, Thanksgiving or Christmas-eve becuase my family was not with me. I told them no, I realized that it really wasn't the date that we did everything, but the fact that we still did everything as a family. I think maybe traditions are not the glue that binds the family but the family and their love of togetherness that binds them. Thanks for your blog. It really gets me thinking of family and how blessed I really am to have them. - Linda Buse I love your comments about traditions and them being the glue in a famly. However, I have come to realize that it is not actually what you do for the tradition, but that you do it as a family. Every year when my girls were little we got together for Thanksgiving and Christmas-eve. It became a family tradition. However, now Tiffany is married and needs to incorporate the family tradition of the Fischer family and Jennifer is living in New Berlin with Tom and is trying to incorporate the family traditions of Tom’s family. So as a compromise we had Thanksgiving on Wednesday and Christmas eve on the eve of Christmas eve. All my friends asked me if I was sad then on Thursday, Thanksgiving or Christmas-eve becuase my family was not with me. I told them no, I realized that it really wasn’t the date that we did everything, but the fact that we still did everything as a family. I think maybe traditions are not the glue that binds the family but the family and their love of togetherness that binds them. Thanks for your blog. It really gets me thinking of family and how blessed I really am to have them. – Linda Buse

]]> By: Mary Kaye Fischer http://travisfischer.com/2009/11/27/black-friday-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Mary Kaye Fischer Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:28:10 +0000 http://travisfischer.com/?p=12#comment-3 In my Humble opinion you have happened onto something very very significant,these sweet years of removing branching to build the tradition are the concrete foundation of you and Sissa's forever together. another level of thought on the small promises and glue. I believe if a child is sadly in a home where the security and guarantee of forever is not a promise they can rest in , they will often cling unnaturally to the practical traditions. With your daddy and i , he rested very peacefully in what we could do this year/today... on the other hand i have desperately fought to make and keep many traditions, ie massive holiday baking, as it has allowed our home to "feel" well, we are doing ok , we are making this work if these things happen in this way. Making the commitment to make it work in Christ, finding the balance between "we will do this" and "we can lighten up this year" then resting in the hope of His unfolding plan is a sweet and beautiful journey. i love tradition...i love sentiment ....He works powerfully through these details. I love the "crop" of your tree picture...i bet you can not get far enough from the tree to capture the entire thing ? In my Humble opinion you have happened onto something very very significant,these sweet years of removing branching to build the tradition are the concrete foundation of you and Sissa’s forever together.

another level of thought on the small promises and glue. I believe if a child is sadly in a home where the security and guarantee of forever is not a promise they can rest in , they will often cling unnaturally to the practical traditions. With your daddy and i , he rested very peacefully in what we could do this year/today… on the other hand i have desperately fought to make and keep many traditions, ie massive holiday baking,
as it has allowed our home to “feel” well, we are doing ok , we are making this work if these things happen in this way. Making the commitment to make it work in Christ, finding the balance between “we will do this” and “we can lighten up this year” then resting in the hope of His unfolding plan is a sweet and beautiful journey. i love tradition…i love sentiment ….He works powerfully through these details.
I love the “crop” of your tree picture…i bet you can not get far enough from the tree to capture the entire thing ?

]]> By: Tessa Nelson http://travisfischer.com/2009/11/27/black-friday-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Tessa Nelson Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:15:29 +0000 http://travisfischer.com/?p=12#comment-2 When you say, " That small group of people closest to us becomes our home, our identity and our security" it really makes me think what a huge responsibility we have as young adults that will be the parents (small group) of the next generation! The responsibility to teach them about our GOD, about what's right, what's wrong, work ethic AND what kind of traditions we have/set!! What a huge thought, but yet it's an exciting thought:) When you say, ” That small group of people closest to us becomes our home, our identity and our security” it really makes me think what a huge responsibility we have as young adults that will be the parents (small group) of the next generation! The responsibility to teach them about our GOD, about what’s right, what’s wrong, work ethic AND what kind of traditions we have/set!! What a huge thought, but yet it’s an exciting thought:)

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