**Sorry this is going up late ladies, I’ve had a bladder infection and my little girl wanted me to lay down with her (in my bed)last night and I fell asleep.

**I am getting ready to add the home tour and it will be after this post.
 

My sweet friend has a give-a-way 

Traditions are funny little things-aren’t they?!

Do you love Thanksgiving and Christmas–I do.  When I was little and we lived in Michigan and Ohio, we were always with family for every Holiday, then my Dad took a job with Hallmark Cards (he’s an artist) and our family moved the beginning of November.  We were barely unpacked by Thanksgiving so that was the first Thanksgiving that we weren’t with any family.  I remember that first Missouri Thanksgiving. It was so warm we were outside in windbreakers and we were northerners and used to snow.  We talked with family, hearing about how cold it was, it just didn’t seem like Thanksgiving that year.  I have a lot of good memories, growing up with my cousins and now my cousins aren’t just family they are my friends too.  Some years we would go back for Christmas but it was impossible to go back for both and so we began making some new traditions of our own and as we got married and had our own families we all pitch in and divide up, who is bringing what.  Some of our recipes are MUST HAVES and things we only fix for the Holidays and then there are new things we try, some become favorites while others do not. I can remember when I was dating Prince Charming and I saw things on the table I had never seen before. My Mother-in-law is a good cook but there are a few things I just CAN NOT bring myself to try–even after 20 years of marriage. She makes 2 kinds of stuffing, one is an oyster dressing and I am making faces just typing those words. I guess-My tradition is that neither of her dressings have ever touched my lips. I can remember the first time she served mashed potatoes with wilted onions in vinegar and oil and there was no gravy on the table. All the boys were filling up their plates with potatoes and making a hole in the center and filling it with wilted onions. I had never had it before. I thought they were all nuts–Now I love it. A couple of years ago, one of the nephews brought his girlfriend and she was commenting about the weird wilted onion thing. I told her, I understand, I thought it was weird too but now I love it. Since I don’t fry ANYTHING-the only time we have wilted onions is when my Mother-in-Law makes them.

TRADITIONS are funny things aren’t they?

Here are some of our MUST HAVES (I will come back and add some favorite recipes but I want to get this posted for you gals–once again I am so sorry.)

How about you?

Who can enter? Anyone.

How do you enter?

**Make a post about your traditions and or recipes. Add the Traditions button to your post (if you need help e-mail me.)

If You do not have a blog but have a recipe you would like to share-send it to my e-mail and I will post it for you.

**Come over here and add the post URL (not your blog address) to the party.

I will post to Foodie Friday

The Traditions party will be up till Nov 24, if you want to come add additional recipes, memories, or stories about your traditions just click on the Traditions button and it will bring you to this post.

Don’t forget to go check out my girlfriend Michelle’s home tour (the very next post).
They live in a darling little town with cobblestone streets.