torand.org » Christmas http://torand.org the power of two became one Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:55:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Christmas Day http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-day-2/ http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-day-2/#comments Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:19:58 +0000 Mitzie http://torand.org/2007/01/01/christmas-day-2/ Christmas day was spent with the family. My sister had an appendectomy and was not able to join us until later on in the day. We had already opened all our gifts on Christmas Eve. We woke up and had our usual Christmas breakfast of Buscuits with Gravy. For dinner, mom made the traditional Puerto Rican dish of pernil, arroz con gandules, and lets not forget the dessert–flan. Everyone was playing with their Christmas gifts and awaiting the next day until they could use their gift cards to buy more stuff.

]]> http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-day-2/feed/ 0 Christmas Eve http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-eve/ http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-eve/#comments Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:25:47 +0000 Mitzie http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-eve/ We spent the day playing dominoes and making cutout cookies, buckeyes, and chocolate covered pretzels. Instead of making breakfast this morning, I baked the cookies that we were going to decorate later that day. Mitzie and Shirley decorated the cookies throughout the day and made the other Christmas goodies. The girls and their cousin Krystle did some last minute Christmas shopping. I spent the day playing dominoes with my in-laws.

We spent the night eating, playing more dominoes, and basically enjoying everyone’s company. We had a wonderful dinner of ham and arroz con gandules, (rice with chick peas). One of the traditions in the Torres family is to open one present on Christmas Eve, then open the rest on Christmas day. So when we stopped playing dominoes around 11-midnight, we gathered in the living room expecting to open just one present. When we ended around 1:30 am. All the presents were opened in a frenzy, mounds of wrapping paper and boxes strewn around the room.

]]> http://torand.org/2006/12/25/christmas-eve/feed/ 0 We have arrived…. http://torand.org/2006/12/23/we-have-arrived/ http://torand.org/2006/12/23/we-have-arrived/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:28:25 +0000 Scott http://torand.org/2006/12/29/we-have-arrived/ The trip out here was uneventful. We left around 4 am, got in Indy around 3 pm. Mitzie was happy to see her sisters, and it was good to see Jose and Elsie. We found out when we got to Shirley’s house that Elsie, the oldest sister, was admitted to the hospital for appendicitis. It looks like she will be in the hospital through Christmas.

]]> http://torand.org/2006/12/23/we-have-arrived/feed/ 0 Leaving Town http://torand.org/2006/12/22/leaving-town/ http://torand.org/2006/12/22/leaving-town/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:28:21 +0000 Scott http://torand.org/2006/12/22/leaving-town/ We are leaving for Indianpolis to spend Christmas with Mitzie’s sister Shirley. I have a 12 hour drive ahead of me in the morning. Thankfully all four of us can drive. Hopefully we won’t run into too much rain on the way out. We have done this drive many times and we can almost do it without thinking.

Most of the presents have been shipped to Shirley’s house. I just have a few things that I need to buy for Mitz, I think we have one more thing to get for Amanda and we are done shopping for Erika is done. I am looking forward to visiting my in-laws, yeah I know weird, but Jose and Elsie are enjoyable to be around and Mitz’s sister’s house is huge. I think everyone will be down in Indy except for Denny Jr. who is still in Japan. Elsie, Mitz’s oldest sister, might not be there, we found out this evening that she was admitted to the hospital in Logansport with a possible appendicitis. Hopefully she can still travel to Indy to spend Christmas with us.

Well I better get to bed, we are planning to leave around 4 am.

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