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[13 Jun 2011 | No Comment | ]
Giving Prizes Should Be A Tradition!

Every year MWD chops the head off an innocent bunny with a cleaver. And he can get away with it, because it’s a tradition.  For the sake of full disclosure, it is always on Easter day and I’m pretty sure the bunny was eating up Farmer McGregor’s vegetables.
In the Devers household we have dozens if not hundreds of traditions ranging from the standard issue (opening presents on Christmas morning) to the less common (playing hooky on Opening Day) and even a few bizarre (shaking a cleaver over a limp chocolate …

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[28 Oct 2009 | One Comment | ]
The Mama, the Mama! Tradition!

This is an especially fun week around the Devers house, because both Halloween & Wurstfest (two of my favorites) take place. Personally, I am pretty big on traditions. I’m not sure why I care about it since we didn’t have very many when I was a kid, but the few we had really did it for me. Little things – like the fact that my Mom would always make a big spread of random unrelated snack food items on Superbowl Sunday. I didn’t even like football, but I loved the …