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yellowdogintexas

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46. no ass kicking?

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Tue Sep 23, 2014, 12:05 AM

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Did you grow up with any family traditions? [View all] begin_within Sep 2014 OP

Rug spotting KamaAina Sep 2014 #1

LOL- I thought maybe you were a family of food & drink spillers marzipanni Sep 2014 #38

Quite a few: Xyzse Sep 2014 #2

Ravioli on Christmas and lasagna on Easter a la izquierda Sep 2014 #3

We always eat latkes on Xmas Eve Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #35

PUMPKIN BOWLING!!! dr.strangelove Sep 2014 #4

i love that! it sounds completely wonderful. i hope people continue to go for orleans Sep 2014 #19

I have pictures of me doing it with my dad in the late 1970s dr.strangelove Sep 2014 #21

that sounds like fun... also like a story Ted might tell his kids on How I Met Your Mother yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #45

Fun! begin_within Sep 2014 #24

During the holidays Dad would make fresh dough for homemade ravioli... Callmecrazy Sep 2014 #5

Of course. femmocrat Sep 2014 #6

Sauerkraut, boiled potatoes, depression LiberalEsto Sep 2014 #7

Egg smashing on Easter. DamnYankeeInHouston Sep 2014 #8

Ice cream when it thunders. DamnYankeeInHouston Sep 2014 #9

Chinese food on Christmas Eve. Aristus Sep 2014 #10

Was this before or after "A Christmas Story" dropped? jmowreader Sep 2014 #14

Before. Aristus Sep 2014 #17

no Skittles Sep 2014 #11

no ass kicking? yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #46

birthdays are usually the only time we go out to eat fizzgig Sep 2014 #12

Only one, really DFW Sep 2014 #13

We are Jewish. Every Christmas Eve we would light a fire in the fire place mucifer Sep 2014 #15

Real-life DUzy! KamaAina Sep 2014 #39

My mom and dad didn't decorate the xmas tree till after we kids went to bed on xmas eve. KG Sep 2014 #16

Yes to avoid having any family traditions LynneSin Sep 2014 #18

it was a 1940 movie with jack benny, 84 minutes long orleans Sep 2014 #20

Is that the one he made when he was 39? KamaAina Sep 2014 #40

Nativity scene under the Christmas tree shenmue Sep 2014 #22

Money Cake IrishEyes Sep 2014 #23

you know, I never really thought about this before... steve2470 Sep 2014 #25

If something came in the mail too late for "Santa" to deliver eShirl Sep 2014 #26

Hey, that is both clever and convenient. I'm going to remember that one. gvstn Sep 2014 #30

The Three Kings could also be tasked--then you'd have until Jan 6!!! nt MADem Sep 2014 #31

Danish aebleskives madamesilverspurs Sep 2014 #27

The Saturday night pipi_k Sep 2014 #28

You must be from New England KamaAina Sep 2014 #41

Brown bread? The stuff in a can? trof Sep 2014 #42

B&M Brown Bread! trof Sep 2014 #43

My mom always put oranges in our xmass stockings to remind us of the depression and applegrove Sep 2014 #29

Omgeee our parents did that too! An orange or a tangerine. mackerel Sep 2014 #32

Sounds lovely! nt lunamagica Sep 2014 #57

I tried to do the same with my kids but they weren't having. LOL mackerel Sep 2014 #59

We did that for our kids ... Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #36

i remember buying my parents special, boxed & wrapped orleans Sep 2014 #44

same here. we always got an orange, apple, tangerine and some nuts yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #47

So did we and a big barber pole candy cane. Also a coloring book and a box of 64 caryons. SammyWinstonJack Sep 2014 #56

Pizza EVERY Sunday night! adirondacker Sep 2014 #33

only one onethatcares Sep 2014 #34

On Halloween my mom always dressed up as a witch, sat on the porch, Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #37

my secondgrade teacher lived in a creepy old house and yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #49

Ha ha. Fun memories. Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #50

many of ours center around the food, good Southerners that we were... yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #48

Inside joke in my family since 1978 wyldwolf Sep 2014 #51

LOL geardaddy Sep 2014 #54

Lighting candles on the Advent wreath at dinner during the four weeks before Christmas Lydia Leftcoast Sep 2014 #52

We do that in our household now. kwassa Sep 2014 #55

Baked bean sandwiches geardaddy Sep 2014 #53

We used to put the Nativity together under the Christmas tree shenmue Sep 2014 #58

not anymore... DavidG_WI Sep 2014 #60

every place we went had to have alcohol rurallib Sep 2014 #61