Iris’s house
Stories set here
- Norm’s Unforgettable First Family VisitOn Norm's first visit to meet the family, Floyd took him to Iris’s house. Entering through the garage, Floyd silently picked up an almost empty bottle of booze, drained it, and returned it to the garbage.
- Christmas Cookies, Stocking Oranges, and a House Full of GiftsDee recalls a Christmas season filled with Mom's cookies, candies, fudge, and carefully chosen gifts. Dad bought the real tree at the last minute; Dee speculates that freshness and fire safety were his reasons. Bernie decorated outstanding cookies and called the children to the window to see Santa, who was always gone before they arrived. Daddy filled stockings with large oranges from Lagomarcino’s, especially treasured during wartime scarcity. Dee carried the fruit tradition forward with Susy and her grandchildren. Carol's Christmas Eve birthday brought a homemade angel food cake, with the leftover yolks used for noodles served with chicken over mashed potatoes. Christmas gifts included homemade clothing, dolls, sleds, BB guns, and school-made presents. Daddy continued Grampa's gift of twelve pairs of stockings to Mom after Grampa died. Dad's insistence on slowly fried mush and his breakfast invitations added to Mom's work while she also prepared turkey dinner. After Iris married, the growing family gathered at her larger house on Christmas Eve, where gifts piled toward the ceiling.
Events here
the first time Norm came to our house to meet the family
Norm meets the family
During Norm's introductory family visit, Floyd took him to Iris’s house and silently drained an almost empty liquor bottle found in the garage garbage.
After Iris was married
Christmas Eve gatherings at Iris's larger home
The growing family celebrated Christmas Eve at Iris's house because it was bigger. The narrator remembers presents piled up to the ceiling.
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