Looking forward to spending some time with the family for the holidays. Every Christmas Eve for the last 30 years, we have had a big party for our family and friends. We’d sometimes have almost 100 people in my parents’ house and people would eat their dinner on the sofa, the stairs, the beds…basically anywhere there was space. But nowadays, the number of guests is much more manageable with 30-40 people coming for dinner. I miss those days, though, when all of our high school friends would come, there were kids running around all over the house, when people would come from all over California for the annual meeting of the Wong Family (my mother’s side). Then on Christmas Day, it would be much quieter. Sometimes we drove to Sacramento for a holiday party, but now we usually hang out at home – just the dogs and the parents and us.
