We do the pork and kraut thing. I cook it all day in the crock pot. By the time it's time to eat...I'm not hungry (from smelling it all day).

A past tradition...and something I was VERY superstitious about...At 12:00:01 I would call my mother from wherever I happened to be at that particular time. Wherever I was I had to have a phone (back in the days before cell phones...*waits for the kids to stop gasping, "There were days when you didn't have a cell phone"?*) at the ready so that one second past midnight I could tell my mom I loved her and wish her a Happy New Year and ask her if everything was ok!

I miss those times and still think of her every year at the stroke of midnight. Well, actually I think of her more than just then...but you know what I mean...lol!

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