Blog #4

What is your favorite winter holiday memory? Be detailed as you explain what happened, who was there, when this occurred and why it was taking place. Try to evoke the senses in your description. 

Every year on Christmas Eve my entire Italian family gets together for a Christmas Eve feast, there are usually sixty people but every year it gets bigger and bigger as people get married and babies are born. It is tradition in the town that my Nonna and her nine siblings grew up in to have fish and no other meat on Christmas Eve. My Nonna works hard the week before Christmas Eve to prepare the meal for all of us. She makes stuffed squid, baccala (salted cod), mussels, prawns, salmon and of course several pasta dishes; lasagne, spaghetti, gnocchi and ravioli. Everyone arrives around seven pm and dinner usually lasts three hours. After dinner and dessert and lots of laughter everyone gets ready to head to midnight mass. This is a family tradition that has been passed down for generations and it is something that everyone looks forward to each and every year.

Ms. Harstone

300 words

Due Friday December 5th