
(I suppose this is where I need an I digress-not really my style, but you get the picture.)īecause of TV, school, friends, and co-workers, Christmas became a hodgepodge of this is what you should do and this will be fun for the girls and don't let them feel left out. My sisters and I never failed to drop everything and ruuuun to the kitchen for dinner! Our everyday menu usually consisted of Indian vegetarian food, and as I got older, special occasions called for the only meat dish my vegetarian mom ever made: Onion Chicken Curry. And two, holiday dinners didn't resemble anything close to what I'd seen on A Christmas Carol or the Brady Bunch.

One, my parents are immigrants from India, and we aren't Christian-although that didn't stop us from celebrating. As Christmas memories go, mine probably hint at the same nostalgia and youthful excitement as most of yours, with maybe two important exceptions.
