by Kay~Kacey on 11/29/2008
Okay, I’m not sure if I’d posted six other holiday traditions…but we sure have a lot of them. You know, like slinging shooting the Easter eggs? And the pointing pictures?
Yes, we have a few, okay, a LOT of traditions.
For Thanksgiving? It’s this turkey.
What’s so special about this ceramic turkey? Well, it’s been on our table every year for about 40 years. Really. He looks innocent enough, doesn’t he?
Except he has a stuffed butt of flowers. 🙄 Doesn’t everyone have a stuffed turkey butt on their Thanksgiving table?
We’ve had this poor turkey’s butt “filled” at the same florist every year. They expect us every year. People have seen it at the florist and tried to buy it. We now have our name written on the bottom, just in case. We might have to put a tracking device on it! 😉 The FLORIST has tried to buy it from us.
Nope, no way. It’s OUR turkey butt, thank you very much. Not. For. Sale. At any price.
Hope you all had a wonderful time, however you celebrated Thanksgiving. I sure did. I may never eat again. Well, except for one more small piece of pumpkin pie…
by Kay~Kacey on 10/1/2008
I’ve told you about some of our, well, strange family traditions. Like shooting Easter eggs with a slingshot. Just a bit unusual. Not too bad though, right?
Well, we have another one.
This cute little monster who sits up on a bookshelf in the hallway. If you push his head he randomly says silly sayings. Well, the saying that we like the most is “Hi, I’m Mike. With one “eye”. Get it?” Yes, it’s stupid, but for some reason it cracks me up. It became our favorite saying. So we now push the monster’s head when we walk by. Only one push. You “win” if he says “Hi, I’m Mike. With one eye. Get it?” You lose if he says any other saying.
Yes, it’s an actual competition we have going on here. I’ve been known to breeze down into the family room and just say “I win.” SuperGuy doesn’t even blink an eye. :rofl: He knows what I’m talking about.
So besides competing on our Easter egg slingshots, we compete on who randomly gets the “winning” saying from Mike the monster. I think SuperGuy lies sometimes when he says he won though…he says it entirely too often… :mad2:
As an aside, heads up, Michelle Willingham, my friend. I spy your Her Irish Warrior book right above the monster’s head. Michelle writes awesome historicals and has a great blog where she keeps me laughing about her oh so adorable kids and the things they say and do.
Where was I??? Oh, yes. We also have things thing about cows. And hanging monkeys. But those are posts for another day. What about you? Does your family have any silly things they do like this? Anyone? Someone? We can’t be the only family out there with such strange bizarre a tad unusual traditions.
(still working on the Photo of the Month post. It takes a long time to do it up. Maybe tomorrow, but more likely on Friday.)
