Kvenfolkets dag, 16th of March

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

Today is Kvenfolkets dag, where we celebrate the living Kven/Finnish culture and our heritage. I’m a proud Kven as I have written on several blogs since 2023 ❤ ❤ I’m a member of our local group for people with Kven and Finnish ethnicity and language plus others who resonate with their identity as Kven in many other ways. I’m also good at family research/genealogy and I’ve convinced a lot of family members with taking their DNA-tests to help us all find out more and on very deep level.

Have a wonderful day and;

Toivon sinulle parasta! ❤

Counting reindeer

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

Yes, this is a thing in our family even though we don’t have our own reindeer husbandry currently. Not everyone can keep reindeer here and we live in a so-called ‘city’, but there are reindeer at the Saami siida here.

Back to our family tradition: we count reindeer when we see them, and it’s a family tradition going back centuries if my memory is correct. I love this tradition and it should be continued for our future generations, it’s really quite eccentric and fun!

Our family cottage/cabin in the Finnmark Mountains

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

One of my favourite times of year is Easter when we visit our family cottage in the Mountains by a (most often) frozen lake. We sit outside and get the Easter sun tan, and make heated food on the fire outside and we enjoy it sitting outside on reindeer hide to have comfortable place, we also have outdoor chairs. We play Yatzy and other games including question games meant for Easter fun times. Another thing that’s funny for the adults there is having a cold can of cider, not drunk at all but nice slight tipsy feeling. We have some candy Easter eggs as well. 

I love Easter holiday with family ❤

Music together 🥰❤️

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

My half-brother is a musician in metal genres, and writes in our native language about different topics. The lyrics are often really funny as well, in ways our family understand very deeply but others might not understand easily. Many of our family members are musical, including to some extent myself as I’ve mentioned I make music in my dreams sometimes and I love listening to different kinds of music.

I hope you enjoy music as much as we do ❤

mixed cultures

Daily writing prompt
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

our far-Southern family love boats and traditional Southern food like shrimps/(also known in Norway; reker) and I love the accent/dialects our Agder county close relatives have, and further back in generations Southwest Norwegian dialects from Rogaland county. We are likely of Reisende origins and I’m happy for the diversity of cultures in family tree.

in the Northern Norwegian region, especially those with a lot of Kven and Finnish influenced cultures and language the sauna experience is especially important to our identity. And I enjoy wearing traditional clothing and most of all our unique traditional shoes ❤

and the animals my father side share in common like horses and cats, and further back on his side even a couple of reindeer living at farms according to census records.

btw, can you tell I’m very interested in our families cultural features and identity? ❤