taurusingemini posted: " How these traditions played a huge roles in your upbringing, decorated your childhood years, translated… Because my family manufactured the mullet roe, winter is usually the busiest season for us, we'd worked, all the way, nonstop, until New Year's Ev"
How these traditions played a huge roles in your upbringing, decorated your childhood years, translated…
Because my family manufactured the mullet roe, winter is usually the busiest season for us, we'd worked, all the way, nonstop, until New Year's Eve. The process of making the foods is very time and energy-consuming, so I'd, become, totally, an insulator to major holidays like Christmas and New Year's, and I'd, envied all of my classmates, my friends, for how they can celebrate Christmas Eve and countdown to the brand new year.
Especially on the night before New Year's Eve, and New Year's Eve, my younger sister and I would take the shifts, headed into the marketplaces to help sell the products, to welcome all the shoppers to buy from us, while my older brother would be in charge of the delivery process. At this time, mom isn't leisurely at home either, she'd not only needed to prepare the ordered items, buying up the groceries for the New Year's Eve meals, and also, the major cleaning of our home too.
The prelude of preparations for the New Year's is that all hands on deck, and, busying all day long until we dropped, until dad came home, and posted the red strips of celebratory papers on the doors, waving goodbye to the old year, and, a brand new one has, begun.
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New Year's Eve is the biggest, the key player on the supper table had always been the hotpot, with the mullet roes, and sausages, along with other sides, rumbling in the turn of the broiling of the pot, and once after we'd finished, we'd hollered out to our cousins next door, and a few blocks out, then we'd played the board games, the card games, until we are about to drop, then, headed out for our midnight snack sessions, then, playing the game of cards with grandma. Although grandma is elderly, but she's still, quite agile, capable in her mind, in my memories, it'd never been, easy, to make her lose her money to us, and, every New Year's Eve, our house would get loud, and we are always, celebrating the occasion as a big family together.
Growing up in a huge family, I'd felt more than blessed, of all these get-togethers I'd shared with my families.
As I married, all of these, once too busy, the enjoyable, the too annoyed times, I'd, missed them all, more than ever, I'm thinking, this, is, my most, ideal way of, ushering the New Year's.
And so, this is on, remembering how you were when the holidays rolled around, New Year's are a big deal for Asians, because, we all get-together, for that expectant, New Year's Eve meals to share with the whole family, and afterwards, we all get the red envelopes from our elders, as blessings to us for the brand new year.
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