Christmas Day

My day at the day before Christmas was really a hectic and tiresome. Imagine i left the house as early as 6:00 am then go home at nearly 5:00 pm then again went to the cousin's house again for the party. And on the day of Christmas again we went to my hubby's another cousin for a party held at their house. It is their Italian tradition that they still continue up to now. The three children take turns in this tradition. First on the thanksgiving Day the only boy takes care of it, December will be for the girls, the middle on the 24th and the eldest on the 25th. So on the day of Christmas we gather at the house of the eldest coz; they give us their gifts and we give our gifts to the kids too. We open it and said thank you to the one who gave us.Afterwhich as per Italian tradition we started with an appetizers of different cold cuts and bread with butter. When we finished the boys headed to the living room
while waiting for the next course. The next course come the pasta after that rest for a while we occupy ourselves with this bendaroos wax, this is for kids to play and use their creative mind with arts and crafts. Look at my at this picture busy creating star, necklace and eyeglasses while this two is busy decorating the glassThen the main course come which consist the meat,corn, and other italian foods again after that we pause for a while letting our stomach to digest the food that we had. So we made chit-chat with other cousinswhile i take my time taking a picture of this cutleries that they have. The cute knives which the handle is Christmas symbol, the tray, the salt and pepper bottles etc. The last is course came which is tea, coffee, different desserts like cakes and cookies. We ended up at 7:00 pm that's the time that we parted ways, says goodbyes and have our hugs and thank you's for the host and hostess. I really enjoy with them and makes me forget my homesick for a while....When we get home we pose to take picture at our little Belen and Christmas tree and the gifts that we get just to have a souvenir since this is our first Christmas together.