Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!

Christmas time is one of the craziest times of the year for my family. Both Christmas Eve and Christmas are celebrated with big family gathering and tons of food. I come from a Greek family and we are big on food and family. Mostly all of my family lives within the same city and it's hard to go anywhere without being seen by your relatives. When the holiday season rolls around my family holds a huge Christmas Eve party at my parents house, including about one hundred people, or so of family and friends, not to mention the mounds of food included. My family tries to change up the feast every year a little bit, but we still have the traditional yearly food, and there is always enough for everybody and then some. The next day being Christmas my family has the traditional Christmas breakfast and then later on we head over to my aunt's for, yet another, and rather large, gathering. On Christmas dinner we always have the same meal consisting of ham, lamb, different types of salads, fruit, the list goes on and on. Having these yearly feasts is one of the things that I look most forward to, not just, because of the great food, but because of the time we have to catch up and bond with our family and friends. Also having such a great amount of food is a great way to converse. Food seems one of the most efficient ways of getting to know and relate to a person, so the next time you get a bite to eat with someone your also taking the time to get to know a person and catch up with those who you haven't.