I just got back from an awesome trip to California to visit my family for the Holidays. I love my family dearly, but we certainly are an odd bunch especially when we all get together. It took many years to have a somewhat peaceful getting along-ness at Christmas time and now they really go pretty smoothly. We basically have the same likes and dislikes so the week of, usually is centered around music, games, sleeping, eating. I think I have to be more specific when I say "music". My aunt and my mom and dad usually get together and play classical pieces, or are off practicing individually. Dad plays the french horn, Mom-the flute and my Aunt- the oboe. Jen is with her guitar- all the time- and Julia and I are always singing in the music room along with the voice lessons I ritually give them. And we usually don't miss a Christmas without taking turns with my dad singing The Prayer. Along with Celine Dion. There are performances at the dining room table standing on our chairs and mini recitals in the living room in our pj's. It's all quite loud and chaotic... but an organized chaos I guess. :)
Last year my dad went Vegan in preparation for another brain surgery to remove a tumor and so Julia and I did as well to support him. It happened to be over the holidays, and so my extended family were so excited to hear we were having a vegan Christmas. (when I say excited, I mean, truly excited. They are health freaks. To give you an idea of what that means, my aunts favorite treat right now is raw beets. She eats them like apples) Also we gave up any form of alcohol (what was I thinking) and so we toasted with our broccoli. That was an interesting Christmas but needless to say, I am now a meat eater. (and my dad's surgery was successful)This Christmas my sister Jenae announced that we were weird. A weird family. My mother was having none of that, and in her true mommy form told Jenae to think of 5 positive adjectives that describe our family, other than wierd. Eccentric. Creative. Abnormal. Bizarre. Quirky. Oddly enough my mother was satisfied.As far as what I am up to now, I am on my last 5 months of braces. For those of you who don't know, I had TMJ, and could no longer live with it. My jaw was moved forward, teeth rearranged and now are being straightened. I look different, definitely. Part of me welcomes the change - I do love my fabulous straight teeth - but I will miss how I used to look. It's odd, really. Someone told me jokingly that I should mourn for my old face to accept the new one. I think he was more insightful than he knew.
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