In hot summer days I always remember snow, winter and my favorite holiday - Christmas. I like this holiday since I my childhood. I have a big family. My father has got brother and two sisters. And every year the whole family - more than fifteen persons - gathered at our grandparents in a big country house. It was my grandfather who has built this house for such a big family.
We were very friendly. I mean our family. Usually it happens very rare. Just remember the movie "Home alone"? Usually members of a family share something, don't trust to each other, envy and so on. But in our family everything was different. We referred to such kinds of family who enjoyed with communicating with each other. I liked to play snowballs with my cousins Matthew and Tristan and watch how my cousin Elisabeth received uncountable congratulations from her uncountable boyfriends. She had a lot of them. It was wonderful atmosphere of Christmas: tree, lights, vocations at school, gifts, fabulous smell of my aunt's turkey and other delicious food. Aunt Kelly was a chef. The most favorite moment for me in the celebration of the holiday was when everybody handled gifts to each other. Usually there were only happy and merry faces, but sometimes I saw disappointment especially on Elisabeth's face. At once her parents presented to her a silver pendant, but she wanted the golden one. Christmas was the only possibility for us for gathering. But once upon a time - I was about sixteen years old - we couldn't celebrate the holiday altogether. My grandparents were very disappointed. Only Uncle Steve with his children could reach the old country house. My parents were sent to a business trip and I and my sister had to stay with mother best friend. Others had other problems, for example Aunt Kelly and her husband had to meet Christmas in the airport, because of a bad weather. And as for Uncle Benjamin, he got in a hospital and his wife and daughter Elisabeth decided to stay with him. It was the first and the only case when our friendly family celebrated the Christmas in different parts of our big country. It was the worth Christmas ever.
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