We had a large garden before we had lawn when we bought our home in the early 1960s. During my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153domestic phase\u00e2\u20ac\u009d years I felt obligated to preserve\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcan, freeze, pickle, dry, etc. as much as possible. (We even have a root cellar on our suburban lot.) <\/p>\n
One year I thought it would be a great idea to freeze corn on the cob from my husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s garden to eat at our Christmas Eve dinner. So I picked eight of the nicest ears and froze them, carefully following the best information I could find and then I put them away for Christmas. On Christmas Eve I served them. Not at all what I expected. They were rather tasteless, hardly the best of the best. But hope springs eternal. The next year I tried to figure out what had gone wrong and do it better. Alas, the same result. So I concluded corn on the cob on Christmas Eve had been a bad idea not once, but twice, and I would not do that again. And I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n
However much to my surprise, the next year and the next and so on for about 20 years, I heard, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But we ALWAYS have corn on the cob on Christmas Eve!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I would consistently remind the complainers that it had only been twice and a bad idea both times. But about ten years ago I finally relented (sort of). Since I was now out of my domestic phase I purchased frozen coblets for Christmas Eve. The complainers were so happy as they cheerfully reminded each other, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We ALWAYS have corn on the cob for Christmas Eve.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Moral of the story, anything you have done more than once may become a tradition, at least in some people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heads.<\/p>\n
P.S. The same principle applies to reading books to toddlers. Always pre-read a book with an eye to, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153if this becomes the favorite book, could I stand to read it a thousand times?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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