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New Year's Day when I was growing up was a big deal. All of the men would go from home to home to have a bite to eat and a drink for the New Year. All homes were within a very small geographic area then. The women would spend a day or two before New Years preparing a lot of food.
Those days are long gone, but mom still prepares some of the traditional dishes for the New Year. And only a couple of our friends families come over.
The snacks
Setting up the dining room table
All of the food is now on the table
No sashimi (raw fish) this year
Shannon S, mom and Laura
Laura S and Steve S and Shannon S
The T's kids and wife and girl friend
Steven, Sidney, Tyler and Sally
Sidney, Tyler, Sally, Rina and Bradley
Sitting in the great room after lunch
That's Laura's sofa they are sitting on
My birthday cake
Checking on scores on the iPhone
Sally tries on Laura S.'s hat
"I think I lost that game"
Cutting the birthday cake
Eating the cake
More eating
And still more
Finished eating the cake
The relative newlyweds. Just married in September.
The old guys watching the Rose Bowl Game~end
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