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Hi everyone! Thanks for visiting our blog. This is the chronicles of four sisters. Four VERY different yet similar people bound together by blood, love and great experiences. From the oldest to the youngest, ranging from 28 to 14 years and very different personalities. The left siders, also known as "The Crazy Ones" and the right siders, also known as "The Logical Ones." So get ready for a WILD ride, where you will laugh out loud, learn new things and get to know exactly who you are by getting to know us! ENJOY!

Nov 14, 2010

Christmas BEFORE Thanksgiving?!


What?! Yes, it’s true! In Trinidad it seems like everyone celebrates and observes almost all religious holidays, which makes for wonderful days off school! For those of you not familiar with Divali (Diwali) the Hindu festival of lights. While very important to Hindus, this marked the need to eat A LOT of curry and most importantly, beginning of our family’s Christmas Season. 

It used to be that Christmas in our house came right after Divali…which is in OCTOBER. Since we’ve moved to the United States, Halloween and Thanksgiving are now both occasions/days we enjoy. My mother LOVES Christmas; in fact, she counts down the days starting on December 27th.  Christmas i
n our house comes before Thanksgiving since we’ve moved to the United States in 2002 as not to offend those who JUDGE people who decorate before the Turkey Day. So as a result, you guessed it! “We” as in, SHE, started to decorate on November 7th.  NOVEMBER 7th?! Yes, you can start laughing now.  Apparently the decorations don’t exactly count as decorations if they’re not all light up! 

We love our mom, she surely is one of a kind. So unique she woke us all up at 7:00am on a Sunday to put up the Christmas trees. Yes, trees as in THREE. Now it looks like my house threw up garland. We love our mom, don’t get it mistaken, she’s the anchor that holds all of our traditions together, a house is a house but she makes it a home, even if we get our holidays all out of order! So get ready…it’s Happy Thanks-it’s not Christmas yet but it sure looks like it-giving season at OUR HOUSE! 

With all this happening, the only question that comes to mind is: Does turkey and eggnog taste good in your mouth at the same time? Well, stay tuned! I might just be able to convince Chelsea to try that bad boy combination out!

~Caresse - Left Sider~

Growing up we were thought the TRUE meaning of Christmas, and coming from the islands we are use to strippin the house of "its pretty" (as my granny would say) by repainting from ceiling to floor, buying new furniture and appliances and lets not forget the new curtains... which my mom still gets sent to her from Trinidad EVERY YEAR!

For the past couple of weeks I have been surrounded by boxes of garland and lights, and the excitement of getting ready for our family's favorite time of the year. All it took for me to help was a *boof  from meh granny all the way in Trinidad... Like it of not, we will be having Turkey with Christmas lights :-)

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas in the Smith/Bucchan home....

 * boof-  stern talking too/ orders from an adult
~Candace - Right Sider~


 

 

Posted by Doing Left, Right! at 9:07 PM

1 comment:

  1. UnknownNovember 15, 2010 at 7:09 AM

    Caresse,
    Of course turkey tastes good with eggnog. Tastes good with ponche de creme too, and have no fear, the malls here decorated already and Christmas decorations selling in Pricemart since October, lol. Have fun enjoy all the seasons as we Trinis know to do. You know regardless of race,or religion, we celebrating every holiday. Bless
    Aunty carmen

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