Christmas Day Part 2: Christmas Prime

Christmas Day has come at last. My kids were very excited when they got up. Carmellina was the first one down. When she saw the spread my parents made she froze in place and yelled “Howy macwel! Wook at aw dose presents!”*

A few broken toys later we made our way over to my grandmother’s house to spend the day. Once again, the complications of 15 adults and 3 kids (instead of 7 adults and 7 kids like it used to be) make the holidays pretty tough. Every time someone gets married they have another person’s house to travel to on the holidays. Since all of my cousins and I met our spouses in college none of live anywhere near our in-laws. This year, though, we all managed to be in one place at one time and grandma was very happy, if not a little exhausted.

I think grandma made enough food to feed the neighborhood. We ate what we could and we’ll be eating what we can until we’re sick from it.

But all in all it was a festive day filled with food, gifts, food, games, food, family, food and food. We left grandma’s house by 8 and I finished my night off with a little nausea and a Gaviscon and seltzer cocktail.

It was good to see my cousins again, though and I hope they all made it (or make it) to their in-laws’ houses safely to continue their holidays as we’ll be doing this Friday.

Merry Christmas everybody.











*“Holy mackerel! Look at all those presents!”