Interview With Relative

For my relative interview, I chose to survey my mom. Since my family heirloom revolves around family dinners, I asked her what came to her mind when she thought of our family dinners. This is what she said:

Well the first thing that comes to mind are our Christmas dinners. We have foods like yellow rice and beans, pork, pastelles, and for desserts, we have flan, rice pudding, templecque and Spanish Eggnog. The texture of the flan and Spanish Eggnog is very thick and different from the other desserts. Then for music, we are always playing happy-lively, Spanish songs, that bring back memories of when I was growing up with my some of my relatives, which have now pasted away. For example, memories of my grandmother, and the traditional meals she made during our family reunions. The colors that come to mind during this time are green, red, and gold.

Another family dinner that comes to mind, is our huge Thanksgiving feast. We have Turkey, rice and beans, gravy, cornbread, and so on. Thanksgiving dinners are more "religious" in the way we go around the table and ask everyone what they are thankful for, or have been blessed with that year. The colors that come to mind are brown, yellow, and orange. Also we always use the same table cloth, and the cloth napkins for dinner.

Then I asked my mom, if she were to do this project, what would she choose to do? She said:

I would make a collage of pictures of when I was growing up as a kid, with some of my childhood memories. For example, I still remember, clearly, the day I got my first Barbie House. It's like I can even tell you what the new toy smelled like today! I felt like I one the lottery or something! I would also show the simplicity of life back then, because nowadays your generation can't live without computers or Ipods. Everything back then just seemed so much easier.

Now what I remember from family dinners:

Kids are running around all through the house. There's laughter and so much talking going on! Its really loud. everyone is starving, because we wanted to save up as much room as we could for dinner. When its finally time to eat, we all come together (no one is left out) and stand around the table, hold hands, and pray. And this is the only serious, and silent moment out of the whole night. Then its chaos. "Can you pass the rice," or "Hey I want more on my plate!" Then the kids eat with the kids, and the adults, with the adults. After we're stuff, we wait a bit and then eat dessert! Family dinners are truly something that I will always have memories of, and I hope to carry the tradition on to my kids.