Light My Fire One of our family traditions focuses on the Christmas tree. When we took the tree down after the holidays, we would saw the limbs off and saw the trunk into pieces. The trunk pieces went to the firewood pile to age for a year. The following year, the pieces of last year's tree were burned in the fireplace on Christmas Eve. This tradition provided us with a way of perpetuating the memories from year to year.
Some families use a treasured heirloom as part of the holiday celebration.
Some friends I know have their children take turns reading from their family Bible. The book becomes the responsibility of one of the children for the coming year. The Bible in question is over 100 years old, and the child becomes intimately familiar with the book and its contents, including the family history written there. This tradition has, for them, brought the family closer and educated the children in the rich details of the family history. Each of these is an example of the types of things that you and your own family can do to build and perpetuate family traditions, even in these hectic modern times.