NEW YEAR FAMILY TRADITIONS My immediate family has gone home to be with God, my father John Thomas Jr., my mother Mrs. Mary D. Thomas, my grandparent both paternal John and Lucy Thomas and maternal John and Mary Robinson, some aunts and uncles. I truly miss being with my family and love one on the New Year, I can still remember the food and fellowship that we shared. Grandmother would be in the kitchen cooking, it seemed like for days. Collars for money, Black-Eyes Peas for pennies and luck, and of course chitterlings (we ate everything except the squeal), but if you could skin it or can it, it would be a part of the New Year dinner. Then there were the fixings; mac and cheese, string beans, corn bread (you want your corn bread), potatoes salad, rice and gravy, sweet potato pies, jelly cakes, caramel cakes, ambrosia, ice tea so sweet you could let the ice melt and it still would be sweet, I feel like Im missing something, yea the fried chicken and ham. And I had people wonder why I was overweight. I use to eat one time with everyone else then go back again until I was so miserable, didnt know gluttony was a sin then. The family tradition was that there was more than enough, does that sounds familiar. But as I said they are all home with God, and I couldnt eat like that again if I wanted too, unless of course you have a million dollars to wage against my doughnut. So to continue in the family tradition I carried some things over, collars for dollars, black-eyes for pennies, fried chicken and pork chops. Did I forget the corn bread. HAPPY NEW YEAR IN A NEW WAY, GODS WAY, BE BLESSED.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:59:17 +0000
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