Do you have any New Year's Day traditions?

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CarolfromTX

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We always have pork and sauerkraut for dinner, with a side of black eyed peas for luck. We have done the black-eyed peas a number of ways over the years but our favorite is a cold salad called Texas caviar. Grandkids have to eat at least two peas. Little Dave in particular finds this an onerous task. Silly boy.
 

pork and sauerkraut, with a side of collard greens mixed with black eyed peas. And, a review of what we accomplished over the past year; what we wanted to but failed to accomplish, and why; what we learned that will change us moving forward; and what we hope to accomplish in the coming year.
 
Always do a long walk, regardless of how cold and/or snowy it may be, and cook something that takes awhile. It varies, but this year it's lasagna. Often, we make bread.
 

We have a tradition here -the head of the Household would go out the back way with a piece of coal and return through the front and let the new year in.
 
New Years for us is always a quiet day. Years back when I hosted Thanksgiving and Christmas my Mom would make a nice dinner for New Years. She made black eyed peas because of tradition but most of all because I love them.
 
I will sleep in and then relax and turn in early as the following day it will be back to work for a short two day week.
 
Ive done that with a peice of coal George-Arthur and I lived down south. Also a threepenny bit in the air snd search for them😂😂
 
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