Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family.
Yesterday and today were quite eventful. The festivities start at Silvana's moms on Christmas eve and then usually spill over to my parents house on Christmas day. This year we spent Christmas day at my sisters. The good thing about our parents is we already had this set up from years gone by. We always had a restaurant so we did not do stuff on Christmas eve. Even though we closed early we were usually quite tired so we did our stuff on Christmas day. At Silvana's mom they always did Christmas eve. Traditional fish dinner including lobster tails at the end of the meal.
We also get away with separate Easters given the Greek Orthodox/ Catholic differences. Every few years they are the same so there is a bit of conflict. I know many families have this conflict of who's house to go to for such events but we have had it pretty easy. Not to mention that we are quite flexible in terms of time and dates. I can remember having events three weeks after they actually occurred in order to get everyone to attend.

What you can't see in the Christmas Chaos in the photo above is the socks that were thrown over their shoulders ala Christmas Story. One of the kids favorite Christmas movies and that scene in specific where the brothers throw the socks over their shoulders is now a tradition.