Pearls Go With Everything--Southern Traditions
January 11, 2013
America was divided by war during the 1860s--the northern states fought the southern states over serious differences. This is not a history lesson. The northern states won and the southern states didn't. Enough about that.
I was born and raised in a southern state, a really southern state, Alabama. Old traditions and customs were carried on and are still carried on to this day.
The traditions that stayed with me carried me through many a social occasion while I lived in at least seven different states. My children used to ask why we used cloth napkins at meals instead of paper napkins. Later in life my friends asked the same thing.
I would simply say that paper napkins weren't proper and that was that. I couldn't really explain, but that is how I was raised.
Recently, I found a little list of "Southern Traditions" on pinterest, and it brought those traditions back to my mind. When you read the list, bear in mind that "sweet tea" means iced tea loaded with sugar.
These traditions are ingrained in me, they are things I carry out to this day, except I drink my iced tea with artificial sweetener these days. I am grateful for my southern heritage and traditions, as I'm sure you are grateful for yours.
But the one on the list that made me smile the most was number 9. Without thinking about it, I wear pearls with just about everything, almost every day!
I hope your new year is going well so far, and ladies, remember to wear your pearls today: it's a southern tradition.
