Hello friends!
It's been a long time since I published a personal post, but today I am very happy because everything has gone very well these last few days and that is something very rare to happen in my life, although I am extremely exhausted I feel very excited about Christmas and spending time with my family, as some of you may know I am a very lonely person and I enjoy spending time at home with the only 3 people that make me happy, my husband, my son and of course my mom.
For these dates my mother is coming to stay with us for a month and she arrived on Tuesday, since that day we have been preparing everything for Christmas night and finally tomorrow is the date we were waiting for, I am very happy because we have been able to have everything we need for Christmas dinner, something that I dare say is not easy in this country, since the costs of everything are too high, we managed to gather some money for this season and enjoy a complete Christmas dinner.
Although not everything is rosy, we have had an extremely difficult month, since December started I have been trying to work and take care of the house and my son, my husband and I have been all this month trying to keep things in order, but something unforeseen always happens.
Something that affected us and is still affecting us is a health issue with my son, he had a kind of abscess in one of his cheeks, we have spent a lot of money on medicine and the doctor, but luckily we were able to afford it, but the anguish and stress that we have gone through because of this situation has taken us to the limit of our anxiety, Normally I would not be so nervous if it was something that happened to me, but when it is my son I feel too desperate, luckily he has improved with the treatment that the doctor sent him but the cost of this medicine is extremely exaggerated, although nothing surprises me anymore about Venezuela.
It is a ten day treatment but the progress is quite slow, although it fills me with a little relief to have the support of my family and to see that the ball on his cheek is now smaller.
On the other hand as I told you my mom came on Tuesday to stay with us, it has been a great help because I can count on her support in whatever I need at home while we have this difficult situation, also it has been a year since I last saw her because it is really difficult to move from her house to mine because, although we live in the same city, my house is very far away, we took advantage of the same day she came to go out to eat ice cream at the ice cream shop that opened near my house this year, I was very excited to see her tasting the ice cream there because I think they are the most delicious ice cream I've ever tasted in my life and indeed she loved it.
Also she and I have been in charge of shopping for Christmas dinner, all these days we have not had any rest, as we have had to go shopping several times and also go to the doctor twice, plus I have make up those days even feeling tired, all these days I had to get up early to give the medicine to my son, it has been very hard but despite everything I feel very happy.
Yesterday we started preparing the stew for the famous Hallacas, typical food of my country for these dates, it is a corn flour dough wrapped with plantain leaves and stuffed with pork, beef, chicken, olives, capers, raisins and some vegetables such as onion and bell pepper, although there are many types of hallaca and different preparation, everyone does it as they want.
Something that excites me a lot is to learn how to make Hallacas, because I really do not know how to prepare the stew, my mom was in charge of preparing it and I chopped all the vegetables that we would put, I also helped to assemble the hallacas and many other things, this is my second year helping to prepare Hallacas and wow! It is a big job, I really admire those people who make more than 100 hallacas, but it is really worth it because they are DIVINE.
I also wanted to indulge my mom by making one of my favorite desserts yesterday, the chocolate marquise, it was very good and I made it with a lot of love, she loved it, since she is a chocolate lover, I decided to put a topping of M&M and chocolate drops, it gives it an even more spectacular flavor.
Today we prepared the hallacas and we spent almost all day on this, since we had to clean the leaves, and prepare everything on the table to begin to assemble, then wait for them to cook, it was worth the effort because they were too yummy, but I'm sure that after writing this I'm going to go to sleep immediately, because it is not easy to do all this work, we just made 54 hallacas and I feel like I made 1000, we had 3 prepared doughs separated in bags, I have a complete one left over and I am thinking of buying more ingredients to make more stew and make more hallacas, even though I am tired, I need to have many hallacas because I love them with all my soul hahahaha.
Well, we only have to wait for tomorrow to celebrate with the family, we also have to prepare the salad that goes with the hallaca and of course a ham bread and wine that we already bought, it was a big effort to have some Christmas food on the table but I am grateful to have been able to achieve it, I hope everyone can have a Christmas dinner even if it is small, thank you very much for reading this blog and let me vent a little between so much anxiety and happiness that I have experienced all these days, I wish you all a Merry Christmas.