Blog#9 My Favorite Time Of The Year!

I’m so excited; my favorite part of the year is finally here! I love Thanksgiving and Christmas. I mean who doesn’t love these holidays, unless you celebrate something different? Once Halloween is over I become one of the happiest people on earth. First comes Thanksgiving; all that yummy food that’s served on the table that day. One thing you should know about me is that I love food! So, weeks before Thanksgiving my mom, aunts, and I go shopping for our feast that we have every year. The night before, we all stay up cooking the food and tasting everything. The dish that takes the longest to make are the tamales, I think the most I ever done was forty tamales and I’m done. Making tamales is so tiring and so boring. Sometimes they come out perfect and sometimes they come out sloppy; they will never come perfect in a row. So the food is all ready for the next day to eat and all I can say is the food comes out delicious. There’s: tamales, honey ham, turkey, roast, chicken, stuffing, home made macaroni, greens, green beans, salad, corn, cornbread, and so much desserts. Just talking about it makes my mouth watery, I can’t wait to get together with my family and feast on the yummy food the women in our family make. I also am very thankful that my family is able to always get together on Thanksgiving and spend quality time with one another.

Then its Christmas, another holiday I love. One reason why I love this holiday so much is because I love to shop. Shopping is something I can do everyday and never get tired of it. I especially love shopping for people, my parents, aunt, uncles, cousins, and friends. Besides the shopping, there’s also so much food. Since I talked about the yummy food already I don’t need to talk about it again. When your driving down the streets, all I see is Christmas lights on houses, everyone’s Christmas tree’s through the windows. It looks so pretty when you see all the different decorations and creativity people have when it comes to Christmas. Every year my family goes to Griffith Park for the light show, and that will never get old. Ever since I was a little girl, my cousins and I would always go to either ones house to make cookies for “Santa” and a gingerbread house. Now my little cousins still do it, and its so much fun, sometimes I wish I was little again to have fun making cookies thinking Santa really comes and eats them. Those were the good days.

Finally, it’s the Christmas Eve and that’s when my family get together. We eat and laugh at funny times when we were younger and just talk the night away. We always have our little secret santa so those are the only presents we get to open before Christmas day. I love it because the kids get all excited and even I do sometimes. We all stay up until 12am, but before then the kids are “sleeping” so while they sleep we put the presents under the tree. And their faces in the morning are priceless. I love Christmas!

I love this time of the year!!