Meme 12-25-07
12/25/2007 06:21 p.m.

Meme was asking what we were going to eat for Christmas dinner. I told her I thought we'd have tacos or something easy like that, but reminded her that we'd love it if she felt up to joining us upstairs to open the packages etc. and then have some supper. She remembered one Christmas (she couldn't remember if she and Grandpa were quite married yet or not) when Grandpa's mother's maid, Maria, fixed tamales on Christmas eve. She said it was the tradition then....they'd all go to the midnight mass and then come home and have tamales and coffee. She said that year, Teeta (the nickname for my great-grandfather) had gone hunting and killed a one point buck, just barely legal, and the maid prepared the tamales using the young buck meat. She said they were the best tamales she can ever remember eating, ever. So she wasn't too weirded out by the prospect of having mexican food for the holiday. :-)

We got her a very simple, basic, one-button CD player and my aunt donated tons of CD's (the crooners, classical, etc....some of Meme's favorite kind of music)so I'm pretty excited about her opening her present!!! Now she'll have music to listen to during the day instead of having the tv blare inane politics all day. Icky!!! And it frustrates her to listen to the debates. I often hear her cussing the speakers out for talking over one another or for employing "just plain foolish talk."

That's all, just wanted to get it down for the record.