I believe that in every family, there is at least one special occasion that everyone will come back home to join and celebrate together. For my family, at the December 31st we all, the whole family will be at my grand parent’s house at Chon-Buri for celebrating New Year party together. It is the best place for us, because we are such a real big family, about 30 people! And this place perfectly fits our heart and soul. It is known that we will never go out with anyone else on New Year, in the way that it is the only one day in a year that everyone in the family could be all present. We feel warmth and extremely happy staying at home sweet home, doing plenty of activities collectively, and counting down for the New Year to come.
We have quite lots of things to do, and they are all about the exact same thing that we actually did in the past years, like a family tradition thing. Even though we have never get bored of it, full of a happy heart and joy instead. We start the day by going to our family’s temple in the morning, to offer food for monks and also to commemorate of our ancestor who has already passed away and dedicate a merit for them. Then we go back home preparing some stuffs for dinner and decorating home to get ready for the party. My uncle is a chef for cooking part, he has a fantastic talent in creating so many different menus as a five-star chef, and all the materials he uses are all fresh from the sea. My sister and me are responsible for the decorating part. We have a New Year party theme which is different every year, to make our party exciting and enjoyable. Moreover, there are also gift boxes around the house that everyone brings their own for playing games among relatives. We enjoy eating delicious foods while listening to the beautiful romantic love songs by our big brother. After that we play games and sing karaoke until late night. When the clock runs to 23:55 pm., everyone gets back to the table, keeps their eyes on TV, starts counting down the time, five-four-three-two-one, YEAH! “Happy New Year!” we shout it out loud, and we finally have a New Year cake afterwards.
It is such a memorable moment seeing people whom I love talking, laughing, and smiling in the same time. It is just like a very good start of the year. I could say that, family matters like there is no such thing as special as staying at the place that is full of happiness with all your beloved family. This is obviously why we love to celebrate New Year at home and make it as a family tradition.
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