There was no question that my dad’s side of the family would celebrate the 98th birthday of our matriarch, Angelita Arellano, which happened on Oct. 1.We’re a tamborazo-loving, food-crazy, hug-addicted clan where a family party of some sorts — wedding, baptism, quinceañera, or carne asada just for the hell of it — seems to happen every weekend.
Isabella Navarro, 10, performs a Mexican dance to celebrate her great-grandmother Angelita Arellano’s 98th birthday. With a mask over her mouth, and guests off to the side six feet from each other, Grandma awaited a procession of a fraction of her eight children, 35 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great grandchildren.“She’s had a rough few months isolated from all of us,” said Maribel Bermejo, daughter of my Tia Mela. She and her sons staked some balloons on my Tia Nacha’s front lawn and put water bottles in a cooler.
Ask grandma to wear her mask properly and pull it over her nose.
Easy. Don't show up if you have symptoms. There is no asymptomatic spreading. Quit being sheep. ScamdemicIsOver