I am working toward making my own family traditions with my daughters, like a heart cake for dad on Valentine's Day, cookies for Christmas, and so on. My husband and I love to throw dinner parties for friends and family. We threw a "deck warming" party this summer and impresed the pants off of 15 great friends. I'm not very good at cooking without a recipe, so a joke between my husband and me is that, if there isn't a recipe in sight while I'm cooking, chances are he won't like it. He's a good sport, though, and, if I eat something -- even if it's not great, he'll eat it, too.