Holiday Analysis

I bet firefighter is the one of the careers which includes more holidays. As it is a seasonal job, the holidays are continuous for a week or even a month long. Therefore, in the meantime, I was with my family and friends partying around.

Christmas like Thanksgiving believe it or not, do happen to share many traits. One major factor that the two own is the warmth and love of bringing family and close friends together. It’s the few times a year that everyone has a reason to all gather around to

Every family has their own unique way of spending time together with loved ones only seen during the holidays. In the Stock home, there is only one thing we enjoy doing. Sure, like every other family we have our grand and elaborate dinner, which is composed of all the greatest delicacies my mother and grandmother can whip up. Of course, as is expected,

My family has many traditions one of them is to make tamales on Christmas Eve so they are ready for Christmas Day. My family stays up on Christmas Eve and we stay up all night till the clock hits 12:00, that is when we start opening presents. Later on we go to sleep/take a nap and wake up so we can do El Nacimiento de Dios. El Nacimiento de Dios is when our family gathers around the setting of where Jesus was born and "we see his birth". We usually do a posada which is huge dinner with many types of Mexican foods like tamales, posole, rice, beans, etc. Each year my grandma, grandma, uncle, aunt, and some cousins come for Christmas from Mexico and we have a family gathering where we meet our family members in which we have not seen for a long

At Easter, our extended family comes over and we have egg hunts for the little kids, kids, and adults. We also eat Easter brunch together. On Thanksgiving we also have our extended family over! Our family will eat an immense dinner cooked by my mother and my aunts. Football is usually playing on the TV, and everyone is having a great time. Christmas is our family’s most celebrated holiday. On Christmas Eve, we have lunch with some of our friends at Troegs. Later in the evening, we go to my mom’s brother’s house to give gifts and have a good time. On Christmas Day my immediate family will celebrate christmas together eating a delicious breakfast- usually cinnamon buns- and give gifts. Later that day, we’ll head over to our nana’s house and then to my grandma’s house. At my Grandma’s house we celebrate Christmas and my cousin’s birthday (which is on the same day). Two days after Christmas we will celebrate my birthday, which is on the

The hardest thing I did on Christmas break was figure out what to ask for. I recently bought a Nintendo Switch so I was going to ask for some more games for it for Christmas. Then I suddenly had the idea to ask for a bunch of legos. That lasted 3 days. I switched up the amazon shopping cart(because that is my "wishlist") to some switch games.

It was the time of year that you knew that you were gonna have to see the cousins that no one liked. 2007 was the year. Thanksgiving in my family is the definition of chaos. My Dad’s parents don’t like my Mom’s parents. I don’t like my cousins on my Dad’s side, John and Mason, they always pick on me. I have an extra toe on my right foot and sure do remind me. We always come together at my Grandparents house in Durham. It usually starts off pretty calm because my Mom, Dad and sister usually spend the night before Thanksgiving in Durham. We always get up and make biscuits, sausage, cinnamon buns and my personal favorite chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. I make the pancakes for myself because when Grandma does it they always get burnt to a crisp.

Every year I celebrate Christmas with both my mom and my dad's side of the family. This year I got a new pair of Nike tennis shoes. My aunt always prepares this wild game of scavenger hunt. There are two teams the one that I was on lost. Christmas is always full of laughing

Last week pretty normal week for me, filled with the basic stuff such as homework and going to the beach. My mom, boyfriend, and dog came to visit me which was nice, and made this place feel more like home. I had gotten a job and started training, but my mom wasn’t too thrilled with the idea and offered to just give me money instead, so how could I say no to free money? I spent way more time being lazy and just laying around than doing homework, but I still managed to finish all of it by the end of the week. Netflix is also a very important and cherished part of my time diary, you can never go wrong with netflix.

My weekend was great! Lol I knocked out most of my paper and reduced a large amount of my notes to outlines. So I freed up some time to study this week.

I am kind of freaking out right now with all of the pressure of this week- and this week is only three days long! My current grade in science is a B+, which means that to get it up to an A by the time that we get our final report cards, I have to get at least 98% on every single one of my assignments. We have a test coming up this week in science as well, so I will have to get a 100% on that, too. I have 5 orchestra objectives to cross off in order to get a 100% in that class and there are only 3 more lesson times scheduled for me, so I have to do a couple of make-ups! And in Social Studies, we are starting a new testing method that Foster Hull came up with, that I named and improved, and that Matt Gunn helped with also.

If you are dreading this fine Monday morning (and the beginning of the work week) let me offer up some fantastic news. It’s a short work week as Thanksgiving is only a few days away. The bad news? The relatives are probably coming to have dinner on Thursday. Not to worry! With so many TV marathons slated over this long weekend, there is a good chance you can find yourself a comfy chair and a binge watch with the only interaction being commercial breaks.

Every year on Thanksgiving and Easter, my whole family comes to my house. We eat and spend time together. We have forty family members show up at times, so it’s packed. Most of us squeeze into my living room to watch football or basketball depending on the holiday. Everyone brings food and it’s delicious. I love the smell of the fresh made pies, I love the taste of turkey on Thanksgiving, and I love the feeling of togetherness.

So about every around the beginning of December I start getting ready for Christmas. Well really I start getting ready around Thanksgiving by going Black Friday shopping. When I go over to my Grandpas on Thanksgiving we always sit with family and talk then we eat. After most of the family is gone my grandpa and I will sit with a notepad and the Thanksgiving ads from the paper and we will make a list of places and things we want to buy. Then later when all of the family is gone we will watch some tv and go to sleep. In the morning we wake up around 5:30 and eat something and then leave to go Black Friday shopping. We will stay out all day and even pick up something to eat for lunch. Finally we will get home around 2:00pm.

While you’ll undoubtedly want to keep a few traditions going, it’s a good idea to mix in a few new ones. Plan activities with friends and family members to spice up your holiday routine.