The time to find a date that suits everyone, with divorces and recomposed and then decomposed families, the season of family festivals now runs over a period almost as long as that of the wishes of companies and pancakes of the kings of Intercommunalities. But while the physical distancing instructions have been prohibited for two years too much to boast of the number of people gathered around his table, the end of the confinements brought up to date a disappeared sport: the grandmother’s competition that will bring the More children and grandchildren at Christmas. You might think that successful festivals are measured by the freshness of oysters and discussions, but the real criterion of perfection for the latter is actually to be able to say in the days that follow: “We were all there.”
What we recognize them
The grandmothers “we were all there” quickly abandoned the idea of Christmas Eve on December 24: among their children, at least one is separated, which multiplies the risks of absence and increases the difficulty to find the Perfect date. But they are targeting the days that follow or the weekends in January for the galette des rois. To fix the day, these ecumenical grannies require priority to their availability from their children who have divorced most recently. If the family meeting is not held at their home, they move with their decorations and their Christmas crown. After saying: “We were all there”, they add: “Apart from …” and some first names. They give the absent apologies (on call to the hospital, on a mission on an oil platform … The other alibis do not count). They hold the accounts with the competing Belles-Familles, find them unfair advantages (“a chalet in the mountains, one cannot compete”). If they still have missing guests at their quirky Christmas, they explain that the other grandmothers are in less good health than they and deserved the presence of children more. They do not want to know that their grandchildren, counting the invitation to the parents of the new boyfriend of their mother, are sometimes in the seventh Christmas Eve in ten days. They are the last on their street to abandon their tree on the sidewalk – who knows, a last unexpected Christmas could have arisen at any time.
how they speak
“It was with us this year and we were about twenty.” “He only missed …” “Brigitte was lucky, all her children were there.” “If we do this in May, at least We can be outside. “” next year, it will be with us. “” We were only all five but it was very good anyway. “” When you have four children and that they have Loves… “” I did open bar on Saturday and Sunday. “
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