Legit email exchange between Dad the the aunts

Aunt #1: Try this combination of salad, which is what I'm having now for lunch: arugula, sliced or halved marinated kumquats, (marinate them in a bit of EVOO for couple hours), sprinkles of blue cheese + a bit of olive oil and lemon juice. Very refreshing.

Aunt #2: What's EVOO?

me: Extra virgin olive oil.

Aunt #3: C'est quoi, EVOO?

Aunt #1: vina vient de dire: extra virgin olive oil

Dad: Extra virgin olive oil! Don't you watch cooking shows?!

Aunt #1: Only Rachel Ray calls it EVOO. The others, Bobby Flay, the fat Italian guy, and the Barefoot Contessa, they talk normally and don't abbreviate.

Aunt #2: I don't watch cooking shows. I watch Breaking Bad - they cook meth.

Vintage Sananikone

My aunt is new to Facebook so she's been posting all these photos of my grandmother back in the homeland. I love it, especially that last photo of Gramma, Dad, and all the aunts and uncles. Dad still loves plaid shirts. 

happy birthday, mom!

eating, drinking, and being merry

We're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fcking Kaye!

A Jabba Thanksgiving

Oura & Ruby: father & daughter baldness

The kids were holding hands for the Thanksgiving blessing, though they did not know why. 

Dinner. 

and how I felt after dinner. 

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[in Lao]
French Aunt: Here, close this suitcase for me, I recently had eye surgery.
Fredericksburg Aunt: Sopha closed it for you already! See? It's closed!
French Aunt: I DIDN'T SEE IT, OK? I ONLY HAVE ONE EYE RIGHT NOW!

We put the fun in funfetti

happy birthday, dad!

To the Ruby even

Meet Ruby, the newest addition to the Sananikone clan.
Congratulations to Oura, Stephanie, and Max*!
I can't wait to meet her.

*Did you get that? Her brother's name is Max, as in the darling children's series. Oura and Stephanie are the coolest parents ever. 


Stephanie: Freaking listening to Call Me Maybe 100 times today. Man, that song is earworm to the max. To the Ruby even.

<3.

photo via Oura