And ah she said "He's going to fail." And I said "No, he isn't." She said, "There's only five weeks to the end of school." And I said, "Leave it with me." So after supper, every night I had an old royal typewriter, manual that you had to bang every key (laughs). And it came out on the dining room table, dishes cleared.

Speaker: (laughs) um (laughs) um so- what time did supper start at? Like, eight-o-clock or? Interviewer: Six (laughs). Speaker: It started at six? Interviewer: Six, yeah.

Speaker: ... it started at seven, 'cause I remember, at seven-thirty, supper still hadn't come out. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And I was like, "What the fuck's going on?" Anyways, so it started at seven-o-clock and um and supper hadn't started being served 'til, like, seven-thirty or something. And um w-- I-don't-know, food comes out in, like, little tiny plates. So it's a fucking plate with ah, like, one slice of cheese, two olives and, like, two slices of meat (laughs).

So yeah, she'll- she'll know those traditions and I mean she's already playing the piano ah she already realizes that Sunday is family day to have supper together and when we do something she always wonders "Well where's all the rest of the family?"

I didn't mind the food there. We always um- I remember that supper time was always a big thing in Italy. And that one night we had been travelling a lot and so we went into the restaurant and we thought "Oh just a bowl of soup and a piece of bread. That's all we want."

And Hannah is often busy so they've dwindled a little bit, our Sunday suppers, but I presume that they'll start up again in September.

And every time we sat down for supper he always said "Is this moose? 'Cause I'm not hungry if it is."

My mother always showed me how to do stuff. And when I got to be a teenager it was- it was expected that, you-know, on some days it was my day to make supper. I remember the year we built- my parents built the house. They were often busy at the- at the lot and I learned to cook then.

So when we say today's our ravioli day, well that's a day we get together and everybody has their little specific job but everybody knows everybody else's job so when you make that it's- we start right away after lunch and takes 'til supper time and we just make a whole bunch of them.

And we usually play cards or Monopoly or -something-like-that after- after supper ah on Christmas-Eve.

And my grandmother would always try to stuff us with chocolate. Chocolate and food. So having supper there was always one of our like- like our- a tradition to eat a lot and then come home and feel sick for three days straight because you're eating so much food 'cause she doesn't like leftovers.

Interviewer: Strict in which ways? Speaker: Um ... if we chose, when we were younger, if we decided we weren't hungry- and of-course parents know better- like, if we're playing outside, of course you're still hungry, it's suppertime. ... But if we decided we wanted to stay out and play and so we feigned not being hungry, we would have to come in and wait until everybody else finished dinner.

I have really bad memory, too so. I can't remember what I ate for supper yesterday, so. Well, now I do remember, but last week, or-whatever.

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.