Not a day that would not look out the window, as Christmas approached.
Cold days, the landscape of golden hues, from the leaves, ornaments for the holidays, ...
The nights also were darker, as if all invited to have lights on, and decorate with fancy lighting of the streets and houses.
has always been clear, that these Feasts are to be enjoyed with the family, and we'll see all those who during the year cost us together, and remember those who have left us, or that Christmas we did something different ...
are mixed feelings of all colors and gradations, as if the time to review all that has been not only the last year, but every year you remember, placing them on the same day. Noting the changes.
remember once at home, I drove up to a chair and made me recite some verses he had learned in school ...
The Christmas Eve is a night of joy, the child of Mary was born in
Portal to sleep this holy night, his mother sings: "Non, non, the non non". Site
Pastors come and see, let us adore him, on Christmas Eve.
more, ah, If you want to see your smile, come on tiptoe not to wake him depart.
... And the shame that I spent, and the smiling faces of father and mother, grandparents, uncles. While my brother was hiding behind the apron of the grandmother who stopped what he was doing to be part of that audience of grateful faces.
And that table well set with a tablecloth party, with cutlery and crockery were used only rarely.
remember at one side of the room, was the "tió" covered with a brown blanket boxes. Every night when we sleep, we put fruit, raisins, figs, walnuts, hazelnuts and I remember once even a ham bone, that night she licked a whole.
Christmas Eve, my parents, my grandparents and my little brother, dined together and we opened nougat candy and sang carols. It was a real family night.
home I remember we had a black and white TV that only spoke English, and gave stories and sang Christmas carols.
was a matter of going to bed early and wait for the next day, my uncles who came to eat and that "Tio" of his house had left something for us. Most of the time it was food, drinks and stuff, but occasionally also brought us a toy come to wait for the Kings.
Christmas day was very long. Guests began arriving at 12 and when it was dark, did the "Operating income" without leaving the desktop.
A meal where nothing was missing: galets giant soup, cooked with chicken, chicken sweetbreads, bacon, knuckle ball, carrots, potatoes, cabbage ... After grilling, accompanied by plums, pine nuts and fried apples. And nougat and sweets of all kinds.
And remember that at home they talked about everything, politics, work, news and gossip around the table, the kitchen and the "uncle" that a year had done their job, then of having beaten with a sledgehammer:
Caga uncle, hazelnut and nougat, white wine out are Navidad.Ahora parties come feast, glorious, eat candies, chickens and capons "
And to lift the blanket that covered him we found everything, including sugar coal.
The Christmas festivities, the most familiar of all. Clases.Sentimientos Memories of all skin-deep.
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