Over time, the ball itself has ballooned from a 700-pound iron-and-wood orb to a brightly patterned sphere 12 feet in diameter and weighing in at nearly 12,000 pounds. Various towns and cities across America have developed their own versions of the Times Square ritual, organizing public drops of items ranging from pickles to possums at midnight on New Year’s Eve. […]
Rarely followed today is the tradition that consist in eating lentil stew when the bell tolls midnight, one spoonful per bell. This is supposed to bring good fortune; the round lentils represent coins. Some believe that people should eat seven, nine, or twelve times on New Year’s Eve. These are lucky numbers in Estonia; it is believed that for each […]
Don’t ask me why because he loves music, but I think he thinks it sounds like a child! He also refuses to ride a bike no matter how many times we tried to put him on one. I hope it’s different this spring and summer, but it’s not interested. I refuse to allow this place to feel discouraged or my […]