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How close do you relate to your ethenicity?

To answer your ?, though...I relate more to my Yugoslavian ancestry than any other. I have tried to emulate my Granny as I get older in many ways. I've tried to cook some of her old recipes. I would love to visit the area where she grew up. I realize Yugoslavia is no more, but she was from Zagreb, and that city still exists...

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How close do you relate to your ethenicity?

My mom's side of the fam is French and English. My dad's mother came to the USA directly from Yugoslavia when she was a girl. She married a man whose family had come to the USA from Czechoslovakia. I dearly loved my Granny from Yugoslavia. She used to cuss a blue streak in her native tongue :) She held a grudge like no other and voiced her opinion with no reservations. It was tragic to get on her "bad side." I was her fave grandkid, I think, and she loved me to pieces. And I loved her to pieces. She taught me to speak Yugoslavian (?) When I was a kid and we used to speak to each other. I've lost the little bit of vocabulary I learned from her though :'( She talked about her homeland all the time, and when I was in the hospital constantly as a little girl, she would sit and sleep at my bedside, never leaving, and tell me stories about how I was a princess from the homeland...it completely enchanted me

I didn't identify so much with my mom's side of the fam...they were a stodgy, stuck up, self righteous lot. Pretentious about their roots when they were in fact, peasantry and nobody "special..." Though they liked to pretend.

As a married woman...I married a man who is half Japanese. His mother was a WWII bride. He grew up speaking, reading, and writing Japanese. He has a black belt in Kenpo. He was a Buddhist. He dreamed of being and studied samurai and loves to make bonsai trees. I so wish he would teach our kids Japanese...the language and more of the customs....but he claims to have forgotten it. Also, being the product of a mother who was our "enemy" in WWII...made him deny a lot of his Japanese heritage when he was outside the home....

Interestingly...all 4 of my kids are 1/4 Japanese. My oldest LOOKS 100% Japanese (more so than his dad, in fact). My daughter looks just like her grandmother did at the same age from pictures. My two youngest boys have blond hair and fair (almost translucent) skin, like me. They have blue or blue/green eyes. But all 4 kids have the epicanthal fold. You just don't notice it as much on the blondes....my daughter was also born with "mongolian birth spots," which is something that babies who have "medium skin (not African/not white)" have from time to time.

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what do you think?

Very cute :)

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Given I'm not celebrating Christmas this year.

As a kid, my Christmases were huge. My grandparents on mom's side of the family would host a huge shindig on Christmas Day for all aunts, uncles, cousins....AND my grandparents on my dad's side of the family would do the same thing on Christmas Eve. Kids all got together, hyped on candy and new toys, and ran amuck. It was great

Around 2010 ish, my mom started to do the holiday dinners (both of my dad's parents had passed by then; my mom's mom was getting older and didn't want to do it anymore). However, going to my mom's house is super duper stressful. She's all hyped up about how hard it is to do Christmas (or any holiday for that matter) and how much work it is. She's always super stressed. It sucks

In 2005, we moved to a town a couple hundred miles away, and a couple years later, I started to experiment on doing my own Thanksgivings, etc., so we would not have to travel to the high stress place....ended up being very easy and laid back. One year, I hosted TG for 27 people....I did cook all day for that one, but was never stressed. Another year, my son was barely 2 weeks old. Even with a 2 week old, I managed to put on a pretty impressive TG feast....not quite ALL the trimmings, but pretty good. Not quite as early as I would have liked, but hey...

It's very, very hard to get out of going to my mom's for Cmas...the biggest holiday of all. So I'm sorta dreading it. However, my husb has to work Cmas day, so we are going a little before and coming back home on the 23rd. SC will visit the kids on the night of the 23rd and I will cook a meal on the 24th and that is when we will celebrate our precious Christmas time.

Speaking of Muslims, Araz...one year, when we were lucky enough to be home on the actual Christmas Day, we used to live by a park...out our back yard was a big park...and our friends, who were Muslim, were at the park on Christmas Day...a woman, her 4 kids and her mother, visiting from Egypt.

I sent my son out to invite them to Cmas dinner, expecting that they would decline. But they accepted!! All of a sudden, I had to rifle through cabinets and start preparing extra recipes to stretch the food! They came over 4 hours later, and a big meal was laid out...there ended up being plenty of food, albeit some was maybe less "traditional" Christmas food (I made a bunch of fried chicken in a pinch to stretch the meat, since I had ham and that wouldn't work for them, etc) I have to say that Christmas is one of my absolute sweetest and most cherished Christmas memories. We had a fab time and it was full of friends and love....Christians and Muslims sharing a Christmas Dinner...who would've thunk it? It was precious

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Guess who's here??

Welcome back!

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What comes to mind when you think "Texas"?

Texas is big....big state, big houses, big money. Also pretty conservative, I think. Cowboys, rednecks, horses, cattle ranches, pick up trucks, American flags, Southern drawl, Sweet tea and hot/sunny

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Have a good night

Good night, Aeolian

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This is gonna be an unusual one, but appropriate for this site.

Inquests are also public record here, but you still have to pay for them.

I'm so sorry that you haven't found the answers you want; I hope that you can heal and move on...but the memory of him will always be bittersweet to you

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Xanax & Alcohol

Don't know how long the effects should last or what they should be; never been there. But I hope you feel better soon

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