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In reply to the discussion: Did you grow up with any family traditions? [View all]DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)8. Egg smashing on Easter.
Two people hold their eggs with the pointier side out and smash them together Only one egg will crack. The winner takes on the next contender until there is only one champion left. My uncle cheated one year and brought a marble egg.
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that sounds like fun... also like a story Ted might tell his kids on How I Met Your Mother
yellowdogintexas
Sep 2014
#45
My mom and dad didn't decorate the xmas tree till after we kids went to bed on xmas eve.
KG
Sep 2014
#16
My mom always put oranges in our xmass stockings to remind us of the depression and
applegrove
Sep 2014
#29
So did we and a big barber pole candy cane. Also a coloring book and a box of 64 caryons.
SammyWinstonJack
Sep 2014
#56
Lighting candles on the Advent wreath at dinner during the four weeks before Christmas
Lydia Leftcoast
Sep 2014
#52