Christmas is over and we will soon be bringing in a New Year. I had a very joyous Christmas with all of my children and grandchildren on Christmas Eve. Since our children have grown up and married, they have families of their own, they also have extended family members that they want to spend Christmas with or just stay at home with their children. There is one tradition that will always be part of Christmas Eve in the Adams house. I have tried to change it, but our girls insist we continue with what has gone on most of their young lives. It all started when my children were very small. We opened gifts on Christmas Eve, because Santa Claus made his visit during the night. His gifts were under the tree on Christmas morning. I had a job that required me to be late getting home on Christmas Eve, that is if it fell on a weeknight. Being late and the children excited to get started on all of those pretty wrapped packages. One Christmas Eve, my mom and the girls decided to make pizza. They enjoyed doing this and it kept them occupied until I arrived home from work.
This caught on, so naturally that became the ritual. Eventually they discovered pizza parlors and now we have take-out. To this day, we still have pizza for our Christmas Eve dinner. I have tried to get them to let me make something else, but no; they want to stick to the pizza. With 10 adults and six children on Christmas Eve, there was so much high energy in my home that I thought the rafters were going to raise and the house would come off its foundation. It was such a joyous evening.
Christmas morning I always make a special breakfast for the ones who have spent the night and for the ones that come back that morning. In addition, Christmas dinner is Christmas ham with all of the yummy foods to go with it, plus all of the desserts. Next weekend is New Years. All of the family will be here on New Year's Day. On that day, we will have the usual chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, and the most important item on the menu that everyone has to have at least two is black-eyed peas. For those of you who do not know the importance of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day, my grandmother and my mother always stated that you have to have black-eyed peas to make sure that you will always have food on your table for the rest of the year.
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I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year to you and your family. In addition, may it be a most prosperous New Year for all.
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Happy Birthday to Jon Boy Bailey on Friday, December 30. Happy Anniversary to Joey and Jeannine Kroon on Friday, December 30.
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Please contact me if you have items for the Farmington News column. E-Mail me at farmingtonnews@gmail.com or phone 896-6697.
This caught on, so naturally that became the ritual. Eventually they discovered pizza parlors and now we have take-out. To this day, we still have pizza for our Christmas Eve dinner. I have tried to get them to let me make something else, but no; they want to stick to the pizza. With 10 adults and six children on Christmas Eve, there was so much high energy in my home that I thought the rafters were going to raise and the house would come off its foundation. It was such a joyous evening.
Christmas morning I always make a special breakfast for the ones who have spent the night and for the ones that come back that morning. In addition, Christmas dinner is Christmas ham with all of the yummy foods to go with it, plus all of the desserts. Next weekend is New Years. All of the family will be here on New Year's Day. On that day, we will have the usual chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, and the most important item on the menu that everyone has to have at least two is black-eyed peas. For those of you who do not know the importance of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day, my grandmother and my mother always stated that you have to have black-eyed peas to make sure that you will always have food on your table for the rest of the year.
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I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year to you and your family. In addition, may it be a most prosperous New Year for all.
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Happy Birthday to Jon Boy Bailey on Friday, December 30. Happy Anniversary to Joey and Jeannine Kroon on Friday, December 30.
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Please contact me if you have items for the Farmington News column. E-Mail me at farmingtonnews@gmail.com or phone 896-6697.
