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Oh my.
And a late Feliz Navidad to the second-ranking top primitive of 2010 from franksolich too.
Well, well.
Mrs. Alfred Packer is over her mourning.
Watch for "Mrs. Alfred Packer does Christmas" when franksolich returns later on in the week.
Whoop-de-do.
franksolich, just like most other people, decent and civilized people and primitives all included, has many different cultures in him--English, Welsh, Scots, Brandenburgian, Slovak, Hungarian, Judaic, Ruthenian. Austrian--but an English Christmas always suited franksolich the most.
Thank you Frank, I for over 20 years have wondered where the fish on Xmas Eve came from in Hubby's family.
For some reason his Irish, Italian, Polish family did not make that big of an impression on the 7 kids. Once the grandparents died allot of the traditions were cast aside by the parents who were just to exhausted from working in the factory's to be continued with all those kids to raise.
The one with the fish and some kind of soup made with tiny meat balls and arugula remain with them but as both parents died within 3 months of each other, leaving 3 teenagers and 4 kids in early twenty's, to go their own way ,it surprises me that all the kids are still alive at this time.
We had little tradition in my Yankee family except that on Xmas Eve we got to open just one present. Xmas Day we put out a turkey and ham, Lobsters and root vegetables that my Dad cooked, at home, the grandparents stopped having family dinners except at ThanksGiving.
We tend to place little value on traditions of our forefathers, perhaps this is a very bad thing, it leads us into a cultural waste land and a loss of identity. This makes us outsiders from those that know who they are and have pride in their roots, in the past family that sweat's and died to make it possible for us to be born.
Sometimes this comes to bite us on the butt. People who have any blood line from northern Europe are never tested for Cycle Cell Anemia. Those with a grandparent from Africa or around the Mediterranean Sea are tested. Comes as a shock to parents that there may be blood from a Greek family member on one or both sides of the family. These children are tested.
Family tradition is so very important to us, gives us a calming sense of togetherness---a bond with strangers that also follow the tradition.
Few American brides of any culture will have a wedding without----Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.??