I can't believe it's already Friday! I drove limo up to the casino Wed. night and yesterday I spent the day with my mom. We went and bought decorations for Bill's 50th birthday party. He doesn't want a big party so we are just taking the 24 passenger limo coach and a few of his friends up to Fergus Falls to listen to one of his favorite bands. I am looking forward to it, I'm sure it will be a lot of fun. We then went to Fridays for a drink and something to eat and then a movie. We haven't done that in awhile so it was very nice.

We had a discussion about family traditions. My family has just never been one to carry on any traditions, my mom's mom has never been into anything that involves other people in her kitchen and I just miss that we don't have a family recipe or tradition to pass on to my girls. So I told my mom that we need to make our own damn tradition.

In so many Mexican families it is tradition to make tamales for Christmas every year. I remember sitting in the kitchen with my ex-husbands family and helping them make tamales. It was fun but I never really enjoyed it because I felt like an outsider. I wanted to do those things with MY mom and MY sister.

I brought it up to my mom and she said NO NO NO. No because she isn't the "let's stay in the kitchen and cook" type of grandma, No because it is a lot of work and No because she has no idea how. I told her that we could figure it out and damn it she is almost 50 so she might as well start learning how to be the 'ol grandma in the kitchen! ROFL Anyone who knows my mom knows that that will NEVER happen but for one damn day I think she can handle it.

I think I might have talked her into it. There is a Mexican woman who owns a little Mexican grocery store close to here and she once told my mom that she would teach her how to make tamales. This is something I really, really want to do. I want my daughters to have this tradition, I want to give them something that they will still carry on even when I am no longer here. My mom might hate the idea now and when my daughters are teenagers they will probably hate the idea too but damn it I don't care! Someday they will thank me! lol So this is my mission, to make tamales for Christmas this year. I'll keep you posted!