Happy Holidays everyone!
Just wanted to say thanks to Aunt Judy for giving me a call on Christmas Eve and allowing me the opportunity to chat for a moment with almost all of you. It was very much appreciated and added such a boost to an already milestone season.
The warmth and affection was indeed felt through the phone line and across all the miles. While all of you were missed and I would have loved to have been there for the no doubt great gathering, I just want to assure you of what a great family Marielena has. Being part of this years Holiday festivities here with both the Boisverts and the DiBartolos has made for one the best Christmas's I can remember.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to pop home towards late winter or spring!
The pictures that I've seen of Olivia celebrating her first actual Christmas were fantastic. She surely attacks the wrapping with good 'ol King enthusiasm!
Check out the pics in the post below of the Boisvert Christmas bash; it was certainly one for the ages.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Christmas!!
Well, Christmas in Ottawa was a rousing success on both the DiBartolo and Boisvert sides of Marielena's family.
Shortly after returning home from midnight mass, folks started to arrive at the house for the Reveillons. I believe in English it loosly means "Let's all wake up". It's a Boisvert family tradition in which the family gathers after mass to open gifts and then have Christmas dinner at roughly 3 a.m. Everyone in the family draws a name for this gift exchange, but when there's almost 30 people...yeah, it still takes two hours!!
Essentially it's a gathering of crazy sleep deprived Francophones on Moosemilk (two 1 litre cartons of eggnog, one whole bottle of rum, half a bottle of brandy and two scoops of ice cream - stir, chill and voila!) And boy, was I honoured to be a part of it.
So after gifts and dinner, there was more socializing and partying until roughly 5:30 a.m. Then bed and up at just before noon to have regular family gift opening before heading over to Grandpa Joe's for the DiBartolo Christmas dinner. Yep...two full turkey meals within 15 hours of each other. Can't beat it!
So below are some pics from the Reveillons (Rev-eh-on). Soon I'll post some pics from the DiBartolo Christmas feast.
Enjoy!!
Shortly after returning home from midnight mass, folks started to arrive at the house for the Reveillons. I believe in English it loosly means "Let's all wake up". It's a Boisvert family tradition in which the family gathers after mass to open gifts and then have Christmas dinner at roughly 3 a.m. Everyone in the family draws a name for this gift exchange, but when there's almost 30 people...yeah, it still takes two hours!!
Essentially it's a gathering of crazy sleep deprived Francophones on Moosemilk (two 1 litre cartons of eggnog, one whole bottle of rum, half a bottle of brandy and two scoops of ice cream - stir, chill and voila!) And boy, was I honoured to be a part of it.
So after gifts and dinner, there was more socializing and partying until roughly 5:30 a.m. Then bed and up at just before noon to have regular family gift opening before heading over to Grandpa Joe's for the DiBartolo Christmas dinner. Yep...two full turkey meals within 15 hours of each other. Can't beat it!
So below are some pics from the Reveillons (Rev-eh-on). Soon I'll post some pics from the DiBartolo Christmas feast.
Enjoy!!
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