Advent Calendar: family get-togethers

Advent Calendar:

Dec 8
The Alvarez family moved to Irvington when it was the boon docks. It was sylvan and suburban and was the family's first sojourn into real Middle Class life. This trickled down for the rest of of since we were all so tightly knit. We'd have raucous parties and spent just about every weekend "in the country". The house had a basement that was a party room and Tio would always have the latest toy, like a full-sized pin ball machine or a pool table, etc. One year we recreated the Christmas Nativity. Because I was the youngest - and over my strenuous protest - I played Melchoir, the black Magi. Al has the video of it somewhere. It shows Mary (Lydia) dragging the baby Jesus down the stair by his heels.