How one family celebrated 'Dia de Muertos'
Hola!
I’m the CEO and Founder of TA-DA! Language Productions, and while I am fanatical about all things language and culture, marrying a trilingual has kept me busy with languages other than Spanish the last near two decades. In fact, ‘Hola’ is about the extent of my Spanish, I’m sad to admit.
I spent the last decade in Belgium and grew up primarily on the East Coast. The closest I ever got to ‘The Day of the Dead’ was the animated film ‘Coco’ (don’t laugh)….that is, until now!
One of my favorite new friends here in the San Francisco Bay Area just happens to be from Mexico. Jack pot!
Lucky me, lucky us, she was willing to give us an inside peek at how her family celebrated this very important tradition, which occurred the last few days. Want more details on ‘The Day of the Dead’ itself? One of our interns posted a blog on this very topic earlier today. Check it out here.
Meanwhile, hear from Lulu on how she and her family honored their ancestors this year:
“Here are some pictures of our Day of the Dead altar and bread. (We made it from the scratch.) In this day we used to light up the candles in the altar and put pictures of our beloved ones that passed away. At night I made some hot cocoa and we ate the "pan de muerto" with it. Then we go close to the altar and star to talk about our beloved ones. How they were in life, what kind of food, music or things they like, some anecdotes that we know, we put some music that they enjoyed and we pray. I have pictures and stories from 4 generations before me and it is because of this lovely celebration that we know where we come from. For Mexicans the love from our Family is the most important thing, and the second one is food - we show our love with food. So, we put the food that our beloved ones used to enjoy. We sing, eat, and make jokes in this day of the dead because we are celebrating the life, the life of those who were before us, the life we have known and the life of the future generations. (Sorry for my grammatical mistakes.) Hugs!”
- 'Lulu', our CEO's friend from Mexico
