Today, it will be a more personal post, I am going to tell about my childhood at Christmas time. My sibling and I were waiting for this event with impatience. Christmas was always on holidays. At this time, it was a real winter, it snowed a lot. With my friends and my cousins, we shifted the snowy slodes, do batlles of snow or made snowmen. When we came at home, we were very wet but very happy.
The day before Christmas, we were very excited thinking of the celebration and receiving presents. When the night came, after the Christmas mass, our guests (our relatives) came and ate with us. It was a really good ambience. My uncles and my faher sang, told some comic stories. They also disguised made short sketches. It was so funny! The diner was traditional: toasts of sturgeon eggs, toasts of butter prawns, turkeys with chestnuts, and the best of the diner: the Christmas roller.
When midnight approached, my father and my uncles took all children with them to have a round by car. Inside the car, we sang Christmas songs. Meanwhile, my mother and my aunts put presents down the Christmas tree. When we came back at home, my mother said that Santa visited the house and gave gifts. We believed that. We were very pleased to remove the paper to discover our presents. We said thank you and wished a merry Christmas to grown-ups. We played with our new toys until the sleep came carry us. The 25 of december, it is another lunch with family but it was quieter.
A week later, we renewed the celebration for the new year's day but without presents. We also enjoyed. Thebfirst day of the new year, some people in the village or some relatives visited us to wish a new year's day or we visited them. But this tradition is over, it is just relatives who come to visit.
Oysters with a juice of lemon gives a good taste. Lot of people love that.
