Top Ten List

Top Ten List of Things That Could Have Become Family Traditions, But Didn't

10) Evening walks through the village with my mother

9) Playing checkers after supper with my father

8) Attending the Schaghticoke Fair in one fell swoop--everybody, all day,one day only

7) Family trip to Borden's to get apples and cider

6) Memorial Day visits to cemeteries, later adapted to stopping at Stewart's for ice cream cones

5) Spending the time waiting for Christmas Eve Midnight Mass (always at midnight) by a family card game---Whatever happened to "Pit?"

4) Driving around the area with friends looking at Christmas lights

3) Easter corsages or buttonaires for everybody!

2) Sending Christmas cards by the dozens to practically everybody we knew

and

1) Cooking the Thanksgiving Turkey----------Hey, wait! I'm still trying, Damn it.