Speaker: Well um my mom has always been a stay-at-home-mom. Interviewer: She's a domestic-engineer? (inc) (laughs). Speaker: Yeah. You can call 'em that. Yeah. And I've- I couldn't have it any other way. I have always had my suppers made for me and my beds made, my house clean.

Speaker: Like what kind-of tradition? Let me think. Traditions, tr-- Interviewer 4: (inc). Speaker: No, you-know-what, no we- we go to Croatian suppers. They have it here at the Croatian hall. We've done that. We ah we'll go down to the ethnic festival and-that, and they see that.

Like he hear-- he- he was- got- my dad was involved in clubs and-everything-else and ah his job and so- but he kept hearing my mother nagging about it all the time so finally at supper time one time he said to me, he said, ah "Son we seem to have a problem. Your mother doesn't agree with the times you're coming in."

So when I came, (laughs), with my long hair and earring in my head, and- and- the- alcoholic and- and- I'm sure they must have thought, "Good Grief! My daughter fell off the turnip truck!" So you'd go there for their supper, and their suppers were set like our Christmas table everyday you-know. It's just like, "Holy shit." You-know everything was passed from the father to the right you-know. And you only got- if there were six people, six pieces of chicken were cooked.

So I- you-know, we used to sit there, and suppers last two hours and boring as hell with the conversation they used to have. But ah you get used to it and they're very nice people. But you-know (inc) they calm me down and I probably gave Jessica a life.

And like, I remember him telling me sometimes that you-know like, he- he would- he forces us to make sure that we're full at supper time and at all meal times because he remembers being younger that, you-know sometimes he would go to bed still hungry. That, you-know, there wasn't always enough food for everybody 'cause they were a big family.

And ah, like there's a few relatives we'll visit um, every-once-in-a-while. Like my- one of my uncles would usually like- between- on my mom's side they would take turns doing us family supper. And um, one of my uncles who ah had just passed away within the last year from a heart-attack, he um like he was the one that usually kept that side of the family together with like barbeques in ah- in the summer and-stuff-like-that.

We were in um, I believe it was maybe Rome and it was one of the teachers' birthday. So the teachers went out for supper and ah, we had- we had got hold of some absinthe.

We were always outside playing, you were always with friends, you were always- y-- you were yelled at to come home to have s-- lunch or supper or, you-know, or go to bed.

Speaker: Anyway and- and we all kni-- knit it or we just have fun. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: And then have supper where everybody takes something and then- then that's something I go to. And then ah- oh but not the legion but I'm an ah life member now so I- and they have big stairs, eh?

If I could shoot a moose every time and have moose that night for supper, I would love that.

And she comes down every morning to make sure that they're dressed properly, that they're clean and that they're- they're having their breakfast. She comes down again at noon-hour to check again ah for their- their lunch time. And the same for supper. I was told ah she- they'd come down occasionally, not every night, but the- the- they drop in ah to- just to check and make sure everything is all right with them down there.

Speaker: ... when our older two boys, Craig and Andre were growing up ah Stace and I quite often would grab picnic table or a fold up table and a barbeque and hold it up and bring it out to the (inc)- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Sit there for the evening with the boys and have supper. Interviewer 2: Aw.

Interviewer: Was there any formal family gathering where you were responsible for the cooking? Speaker: Um I've had like my parents over for supper and-stuff. And I've had ah- I've made like a turkey dinner before and-stuff.

Interviewer: Oh, you sound- you were kept very busy I- I-think. Speaker: Oh yes. Yeah. First thing in the morning to last thing at- Interviewer: Wow. Are y-- Speaker: Yeah, after supper. All cleaned up, yeah. Interviewer: Wow. And how early would you wake up?

You know y-- you'd go out after your supper and- and play until nine-o'clock at night, until it got dark. Yeah. And once again, in most cases all ages, and- and-that-sort-of-thing.

... we would go out in the morning and maybe come home for lunch, maybe not come home for lunch, or- ... Might go to my aunt's for lunch, or- a-- and-this-sort-of-thing. ... And then was out 'til suppertime. And ah, show up and have supper and go out again and play after. And improvise games and activities, yeah.

Um me and my friends are supposed to go out for supper and then they all cancelled on me. And I'm like "Kidding me, my only Friday I get off you guys all cancel on me." And I'm like "What am I going to do? Just watch movies now? That's- that's a fun Friday off." Like jeez guys.

That's the way we eat- eat our spaghetti. I love going over there for supper. I'm like "Make me spaghetti." 'Cause like she makes exactly the way I love it so.

Like our house-mates 'cause we all shared a house and we'd have people come over for- we'd have potluck suppers or we'd- ... Have a perrogi party or-whatever, right?