Southern tradition calls for ham, greens, and black-eyed peas to ring in the New Year, to bring luck and prosperity to those who consume the meal. We didn't have any greens (so I substituted with green broccoli...), but we had plenty of ham left from Christmas Eve and I made my first batch of really good black-eyed peas (I've had some fails in the past, but these were super yummy and Cora ate a TON of them). Next year we'll be sure to have spinach, and we'll make cornbread instead of tator tots... It was a yummy lunch though!
The rest of the day was spent resting up from last night's party, painting, digging for fossils, playing games, going to a movie (Walking with Dinosaurs was really cool - not what we expected, but definitely a cool movie and James especially liked it), and hanging out in the front yard until sunset (playing on the zipline and dropping into the huge pile of leaves).
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