Christmas

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Christmas Time


Everyone has their favorite place in this world. My favorite place is my grandparents’ house at Christmas time. This is a time where my entire family is together and we all spend quality time together. All of my aunts, uncles, and cousins are all together at one time. This is the only time all year when we are all together. My grandma is constantly cooking while all my aunts are running around trying to get everything else together. My grandpa, uncles, and cousins all make and set up luminarias around the neighborhood. These are reasons why my grandparents’ house at Christmas time is my favorite place.
When you walk into my grandparents’ house during Christmas, you will immediately be engulfed by a beautiful smell of food. My grandma in my opinion is one of the best cooks. Every Christmas we have tamales, beans, rice, and chili. She prepares for Christmas Eve about a week in advance. She buys all of the supplies she needs to make all of the wonderful food that she makes. The first things that she will make are biscochitos. My grandma always makes about fifteen dozen of these cookies. Then she will prepare the meat for the tamales, and the chili. Then on Christmas Eve morning she will start the huge pot of chili. She lets it cook all day until we return from mass in the evening. While my grandma is cooking my aunts and my mom are busy cleaning and making sure everyone is ready for the night. The men and all the kids are outside setting up luminarias.
I cannot remember a Christmas without luminarias. I know that this is a tradition that my family has had for many years. My grandpa buys enough bags and candles to light up the entire city it seems like. It has always been something that I look forward to each Christmas. My cousins and I start folding bags in the morning. Then around one in the afternoon we all head outside to start filling the bags with dirt and candles. We all go o...