Every year for Samhain we have an ancestor feast. Everyone brings a dish that represents their ancestors and over dinner we share a story or a blessing in the name of a passed relative. In this way, we hope to keep our history alive for our children. After dinner we do a banishment ritual for the new year of burning a paper with something we want to eliminate in the new year in a caludron and then pick a card from my Soul Cards deck and use that as a glimpse of what we need to hear or see for our upcoming year. We have a great time and share with our family and friends. I am sorely going to miss my best friend and his wife *sniff* but as our families grow, so do our individual family rituals. My friend A and her family are bringing Posole and Day of the Dead bread so I'm going to make a Mexican-inspired flank steak and this killer Carmel/Pecan bar that I learned in last night's cooking class.

Happy Happy Samhain to you all.