This holiday season my family and I were lucky enough to spend time together. The photo is of me with my mother and my baby brother, George. Unexpectedly, this weekend some of my cousins also arrived for visits, so we had some fun lunches and reminiscences. When family members get together, they invariably remember those relatives who are deceased. We talked about my paternal grandmother and great aunts, who always created the most delicious feasts for the holidays. I gave my cousin some recipes from our Aunt Doll, and we tried to figure out how my grandmother and Aunt Doll made the scrumptious stuffing for the turkey. We decided to get together again in May and share old photos and more memories.
Vocabulary
reminiscences (noun) -- memories
deceased (adjective) -- dead
paternal (adjective) -- father's
delicious (adjective) -- tasty
recipes (noun) -- instructions for making food
figure out (verb) -- guess
scrumptious (adjective) -- very tasty
Vocabulary Exercise:
Our father is no longer with us on holidays because he is _______________ (not alive).
My __________ grandmother had many ________________ for ________________ holiday food that we can use to make the food again.
We cannot remember how to make my aunt's favorite cake, so we want to ________________ what ingredients go into it.
One of our favorite _____________ or memories is of my mother's ____________ popovers that we loved so much.
Grammar Point: Adjectives are words that tell about a noun: big, small, happy, lovely, interesting, beautiful and thankful are all adjectives. The adjectives scrumptious and delicious have something in common in addition to meaning. What is it? Can you think of any other endings that adjectives have? Write sentences using the adjectives from the paragraph I wrote.
