Is there a point of pride that is often used to define your family?

We, as a family, can eat more mashed potatoes than seems physically possible.

Great eyes.

I go to retirement parties and little old ladies say “Jesus, you got your dad’s eyes. It’s not fair to women”.

I went to pick up the boys from scouts the other day, and the mom says to me, “They look at me with those eyes and I just want to let them get out of trouble. I give them extra candy”.

Our hair. They always say that my family has such great hair

Hmmm, thinking… thinking… t.h.i.n.k.i.n.g… Sorry nupe.

<—- Average bloodline.

@Imadethisupwithnoforethought My girlfriend has bright green eyes. She said that green eyes are the devil’s eyes. ;)

We have thick-ass, dark hair and petite features.

Great overcomers

We are Sicilian and haven’t killed anybody in at least thirty years.

I don’t know about family as in a family unit, but the women from my mother’s side, i.e the daughter, of the daughter… are known to be soldiers. Very strong and tough women.

Nope, we have no illustrious past, no great geniouses, we just have our own little sentimental history and connection, our stories, and that’s what makes us stick together.

My daughters great grandfather patented the copper seal on tin cans and made a fortune back around the turn of the century, and his family were also pioneers in the restaurant supply biz.
On my side, my great grandmother was family friends with Nathanial Hawthorne and I have a book with a hand penned greeting to her as a gift. ” My dearest Blanche…” haha
Also a few nefarious situations like drunken buggy rollovers and tarring and feathering. lol I am also a daughter of the american revolution although I am a traitor, being of an apolitical mind. :-P

Everyone in this town just knows us. Mostly because of our Grandfather and Great Grandfather. But a lot of other family members too. They..pretty much run almost everything. And while I have nothing to do with it..I do have the last name.

Also, my brother likes to make up sayings. You know, about our last name. “Practice makes Pendergrass.” That kind of thing. Sometimes amusing, sometimes ridiculous.

On my mother’s side, Daniel Boone is my great, great… uncle. And if ancestry.com has accurate records, my mother’s line descended from William the Conqueror.

On my father’s side, Jesse Chisholm is my great, great… grandfather.

How racist they all are?

Apparently, I’m related to Nathan Hale and Anne Hutchinson on my mother’s side, which also comes with, apparently, a legendary temper. That gene somehow skipped me for the most part and sandwiched me between my mom and son’s tempers. Aieeee…

On my dad’s side, it’s cotton. They were the poorest cotton-pickers as far back as anyone remembers and my dad started picking cotton when he was 6 and got his first indoor plumbing in 1971.

“Nary a single one of them ever an honest day’s work in his entire life.”

My father once had a family crest made up. The motto, I kid you not, says (translated from the fake latin), “We are weird.”

My maternal families are proud of being sheephearding pioneers of New Mexico.

@Neizvestnaya

Very cool! I’m a native New Mexican, very rich history, beautiful country.
I live in Ca. but my hearts in Angelfire. :-)

We are the descendants of outlaws and bastards (though the bastard children of royalty, thank you very much) who fled to the US and fought in the American Revolution.

The closets thing with the current generation on my side is our Choctaw ancestors. On my Husband’s side, there is very little.

Does two chain-smoking Alcoholics with Asthmatic kids qualify for anything ?

The unfortunate truth. I didn’t exactly score the big jackpot in the parent lottery.

But, life is what you make of it and biology is not destiny.

” It’s never too late to have a happy childhood” was my major Sig line on Forum boards for quite awhile.

Then I switched it to: “Meddle thee not in the affairs of dragons. For thou art crunchy and wouldst be tasty with Ketchup”.

Almost the same thing :)

And I got a halfway decent brain out of the whole deal. At least I think I did :)

Damn stubborn Yankees.
@Coloma, my grandmother was. She quit. Said it was a bore.
How about the Colonial Dames? Not everybody was for the Revolution.
Some of my ancestors were, some of ‘em weren’t interested. Too busy with their farms.

@CunningLinguist any of those bastard royalty set up with plantations in the south by the paterfamilias? Are you a damn southerner?

@Coloma: Ocate and Wagon Mound are the places our families wanted to get the hell out off by the early 1900’s but now us “youngsters” all talk about how neat to go there and retire.

@anartist No, no. All New Englanders. We were the disowned kind of bastards, not the secretly helped along kind.