The Summons

THE FAMILY GATHERING

My niece: Hello tio!
Me: Hello princess.
My niece: I’m calling you to let you know my mom came out with a brilliant idea.
Me: And what is that idea.
My niece: She wants to cook for us on Sunday.
Me: Say no more I’m there.

What’s better than to be summoned to your sister’s house for no particular reason than to just have a family gathering complete with food, food and more food. Yeap, when my niece called me to tell me her mom came out with that great idea, they did not have to ask me twice nor they had to twist my arm. So when she asked me “What do you think tio?” I said shut up you had me a Hello.


Really what kind of human being would I be if said no to food? Not likely, the word food carries more weight than the weight it will make me gain later on, let it be nown that we fry everything. When you are Hispanic you know that if you are invited to a family get together there is going to be lots and lots of food, which in our case works out because there are lots and lots of us.

Just a simple summons from my sister, just a couple of calls here and there and there were about 30 of us at her house. See we don’t require formal invitation or anything like that, in our case word of mouth works like a charm. A good example of a typical invitation would be as follows:

Me: (Inviting my sons in law and respective families) what up fool? My sister is having tacos on Sunday you coming?
In law: What kind of tacos?
Me: Who cares what kind, the free kind.
In law: Will she have “frijoles”?
Me: Yeap!
In law: In that case, yes.
Me: Alrighty then! See you there.

Then my in law in turn calls his brother…

In law: What up fool? Tacos at Marya’s. You coming?
His brother: Will they have frijoles?

Yeap, in our case you invite five people because those five people will invite some more and before you know it you have a full house which in our case is called:

A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY!