Christmas has come and gone, the yearly parties have ended, and now all that's left of 2011 are a few measly days of December. Allegedly, the world is ending in 2012 so I guess we may as well make the best of that year in all aspects. On the 1st, we are going to my great-grandmother's house to celebrate with my dad's side of the family. A small gathering but it shall be a lot of fun as it's always fun to hang out with the multitude of cousins and their kids.
For Christmas Eve, we went to my uncle Albert and aunt Sonia's house. It was different than our usual Christmas parties for many reasons. Firstly, my aunt Sonia's family was mostly over, we were the only ones from Albert's side of the family that were there, which made it really awkward. And secondly, the food was not traditional quebecois food but latin American food, which was good too, I'm not complaining, but it was weird nonetheless. We helped Laura (Sonia's mom) make empanadas while we waited for the other guests to arrive. Basically, we stuff pork, peas, egg, raisins and an olive in little dough dumplings and bake them. It was hard work, I soon gave up and retired to the snack table to eat veggies. When Cindy and her kids arrived, my cousin Fany and I spent our time playing with Kaylee and Amber, mostly hide and go seek, and hot potato. It was fun. When dinner was finally served around 10 pm, my cousins, sisters and I played cards (Passe l'ace, it's our favourite game, but we didn't have nickels so we bet with pins lol) until they offered us a small gift - a scarf and mitten set each. Really sweet. Then we went home cos it was rather awkward. The reason why there weren't any other members of my mom's family present is because they fight quite a bit and they tend to not talk to each other for quite awhile when that happens, so...
anyway, moving on to my other Christmas. On Christmas day, we went over to my cousin Steve's house, where he and his girlfriend and their daughter Kaylee-Rose live. They live in my great-grandmother's former house which has been completely renovated to include a huge kitchen and 3 bedrooms on the second floor. Which works out great because baby #2 is on the way :). We'll find out on January 13 whether or not this baby is a boy or a girl. Partially hoping for a boy if only because Steve's brother Jesse has 4 kids and only one of them is a boy, so Sky needs some male cousins I think! Anyway. The usual suspects were all present, minus uncle Danny because he was ill and so was my sister Tarah. My cousin Jennifer couldn't make it cos she was in Miami, but otherwise everyone that's usually there was there. We had the usual Christmas dinner - tourtiere, ragout de pattes de cochon, pate aux patates, turkey, etc and it was delicious. Genevieve, Steve's girlfriend, actually made all the tourtieres this year and they were great! She even made all the desserts, including some chocolate-peanut butter-marshmallow squares that I snatched the recipe off of her cos they were so delicious. I spent most of my time talking with my cousin Kassandra and playing with the babies, checked out some photos from my cousin Terry's vacation to Mexico and sang some carols with my aunt Caroline. Our Christmas' are never too intense, we just have a great time together and that's all that matters :).
I look forward to New Years.
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