Christmas is a time to give and my family has always thought me to be thankful for all we have and what we don’t have and to give to those less fortunate and in need. We have always been involved in serving our community in any way possible to our capacity and with a willing heart. The satisfaction of putting a smile to achild or a family it´s just amazing and I want to share some ideas with you for this year´s Christmas season.  As a way of showing how thankful we are for having more than what we really deserve and as a way of sharing those blessings with others every year my family and I clean our closets of cloth and shoes in good conditions and take them to the girl´s orphanage or to a shelter. We also collect blankets and drive around the streets and give them to the homeless. Last year some friends and I also went to a nursing home and sang Christmas carols to the elderly and even do we did not had a great voice we had a great time and actually made new friends. Christmas is all about planning, gathering, spending time with the family and friends and receiving presents but there´s no better present than to be able to
make someone´s Christmas.  

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Our family faces the dilemma to not being able to face our holidays in our normal holiday retreat and also have to worry about the fact that there is a lot of things that my family cooks that have Mexican ingredients as many families in Mexico face the same dilemma. Many of our foods are not traditional American family foods. We enjoy the eating of tamales, menudo, posole, cabrito, bacalao and of course we like aguacate in our food but that is not the end of the world. Even though these foods will not taste the same or be the same like these use too, we are going to have to put our effort to the max in order for our family to feel the most at home as they came. 

This holidays we will try to adapt to the new traditions without letting that be an obstacle for having a great time with family and friends. The person we are trying to mostly feel at home is my grandmother because she cannot believe that we are not going to have our traditional family party. In fact we had to really beg her and tell her that she would be able to gut the goat and cook it outside if she please just let agree to doing the get together in the US soil home. This year will be extremely special because we must start a new tradition because we do not know how long this bad spell is going to continue. Even though we are going to have to change and be content with certain replacement of things we are still going to be extremely grateful that our family is together and happy. All multicultural people that celebrates their family holidays in parts of Mexico should be open to the idea of applying new traditions to their celebration in order to rekindle the joy. I am pretty sure it affects them as it affects me and my family not being able to celebrate our holidays the way we are used to, but if you see the positive outcome of this we can all have a mixture of new traditions and the family together.

This year our holiday has become a very hectic one, due to the fact that our usual home where all of our family gets is in a town that is under the invasion of Mexican Cartel Wars. Since there is a major drug war going on our home town Reynosa Tamaulipas we have not been able to celebrate past  years over there in our family ranch which has been around for generation after generation. My grandmother, which is used to always spending the holidays over there has become extremely worried and uneasy because she cannot believe that she will not be able to spend the family time over there. This has complicated many of my family’s plans because we have to decide where we have our family dinner and get together. Once we decide where these events will be held, then we must give out certain duties to the family’s members in order to make our new place of celebration look or at least remind us of the old one. My grandmother of course is devastated because this is a tradition that had been going on for several years now. We will have to try to and make this time feel like the past times in our usual Christmas parties in Reynosa Mexico. We have to set up the best in order to make up for location and of course make sure it is full of many wonderful gifts for all of the family members. In addition, to make the Christmas tree extra special we must also put our Christmas lights on overdose to make it look extra jolly. Another thing we have to worry about is looking a new Djs because when we would have our family parties we would have a group that would go play at the ranch and they would stay till past midnight. One of the dilemmas that come with finding a new Djs is also knowing that they will meet our likes of music genres; mind you we must also pay attention to the time laws that the united states has. We do not want any police officers knocking at our door telling us that the music is to loud.  We must all have a time when we all sit together and lay baby Jesus in the barn bassinet, also take the time to thank God for letting us be all together another year and of course be safe and free from all the bad going on with the drug wars currently happening in our home town. I hope that it will be great holiday whatever the matter; I know that as long as my family is together it will be a great holiday.