IslanderView Digital Magazine January 2018 | Page 6

Hafa adai IslanderView familia! help do things “right” and make it bet- Thank you for following me, Islander- ter, we should offer our help. View blogposts on FB, IG, and Twit- ter. This is my first digital magazine Christmas at our house was al- of the year. After restarting Islander- ways very festive. From cleaning out View and giving it a boost, I’m very the house top to bottom, and I mean happy to have found a free digital top to bottom, to decorating and get- magazine app I can use to share ting all the ingredients together just in more IslanderView information and time to prepare for the feast, our mom news in a dynamic and professional was a blast. Often the grocery shop- way! ping would include extra dishes and sides that, of course, would mean a Christmas At Our House is based on higher bill at the register. Much to my take growing up in the Flores our dad’s dismay, but he never told household and Christmas tradi- tions in our home as our parents, especially our mom taught and shared with us. Her name was Tilly Flores . She was a fashionable woman with a unique style and was always looking fresh even while slaving away in the kitchen, and not just ours! She would We had to show respect to our el- ders wherever we were. If we did not Nginge’ our elders, they would tell on us. be first to offer help and as I look back I now think it was because she was of the thinking that if you could 6