Welcome to Unbreakable Latina.

Hi guys, welcome back to Unbreakable Latina.

This is your host, Melina. I hope you're having an amazing day, whatever day you're listening to this on. I am trying to upload this episode ASAP because I just have a busy weekend ahead of me. I still haven't finished my Christmas shopping. Christmas is literally, Christmas Eve is on Tuesday. I've been so drained from work that I have no energy to be out in these streets with the crowds.

I actually left work early the other day and I'm like, yeah, I'm going to get my Christmas

shopping done today.

I went to the store, didn't find anything I liked.

And I was so disappointed.

And then again, I remember like, girl, you waited till last minute.

I'm also the type of gift

giver that wants to give a thoughtful gift not just a gift just to give and that gets a little

complicated because I start thinking like oh my god I'm just going to get this person this and I don't

know I don't know if you guys feel the same way and I also have a confession every time I shop for somebody I end up

shopping for myself so there's that and I don't know why whenever I'm trying to shop for other people

I really find really good stuff for me so after being disappointed by the stories I just came home

and ordered a bunch of stuff online so little by little it's getting here um I love just hanging out with my family eating tamales. We just made

tamales last weekend. It was so much fun. I really value that tradition and I hope to keep it going

forever as long as I could bully everybody into helping out because before I remember, it was just

my mom, my aunt, my aunt my uncle me and my sister

and then we're like wait a minute everybody eats and takes some home like everybody should help if you

don't help no vasa comer so we started doing that and bullying people into coming and even if it's just like

to keep company or to help clean up like it does help we finished we did 60 pounds of masa and one of my friends were like, why does your family do so much? My uncles had a lot of friends. So anybody that didn't have a home to go to for Christmas Eve or maybe didn't have a good relationship with their parents, they would all go there. So I feel like the tradition has always been kept in my mom's side of the family where we just adopt anybody that comes in

But that's like all Mexicans right where like everybody becomes family

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