New Year Menu
New Years has been at our house ever since boy 3 was a baby and we lived next door to the fireworks maniac who once shot water at my kids thinking that they were popping fireworks early. They were not. In fact once she yelled at my kids when it was her own teenager who climbed on the roof and popped off fireworks. We built that house in our late 20s, early 30s, so that you have an understanding of our mindset, but each year, we would save up our Christmas money and blow it on fireworks. We would wait until 9 pm, the county start time on New Year's eve and blast (in our gravel yard, not on the road) until 1 am (the county stop time). Every half hour we would do a string. All within the legal restrictions, but really just to irritate her. Call the cops. We are not doing anything. So see, we needed to be home for New Year's eve. We needed to be well fed and well rested for the "tradition" of irritating our neighbor. The second story is about my mother. She takes Chr...
