1. Your idea of gravy has nothing to do with Thanksgiving.

2. You've been forming meatballs and stirring sauce since you had to stand on a chair to reach.

3. If you yell "Anthony" at a family function, at least 3 people turn around.

4. When you're outside your home, you're asked to lower your voice approximately 4 times per day.

5. Canned sauce is an absolute travesty.

6. *piles a mountain of pasta on your plate* "have a little!"

7. Mozzarella is pronounced "mootz-a-rell" and sausage is "saus-eech"

8. You call each type of pasta by its proper name.

9. You can't leave Grandma's house without a lasagna, a baked ziti, 3 pies, and a plate of cookies.

10. You truly don't realize how much you talk with your hands until someone points it out to you.

11. There's enough food at Sunday dinner to feed a small army, but mom always worries that there won't be enough.

12. We're not yelling, everyone's just talking over one another.

13. "Capiche?", "yous", "mangia", and "salud!" are all part of your common vernacular.

14. No one is better at keeping a grudge (or a secret) than a Sicilian.

15. A wooden spoon is more like an assault weapon.

16. Dominick the Donkey was THE Christmas anthem.

17. You're so used to being kissed and having your cheeks pinched by people you hardly know that it doesn't even phase you anymore.

18. There is never, ever, EVER, enough bread. Or vino. Or formagio.

19. You're pretty positive that someone in your family is/has been part of the mafia.

20. This cookie tin is always filled with sewing materials, never cookies.

21. Cannolis are a sacred food.

22. You had to learn to be thick-skinned from a young age (it was out of love).

23. The sign of the horns and the Italian evil eye (malocchio) are not to be taken lightly.

24. It takes about an hour to hug and kiss everyone goodbye after a family gathering.

25. You love your roots and your heritage and you wouldn't trade them for the world.