A feast for my grandma

My grandma has been sick for a couple of month now and she always is so happy. Her right arm been having minor stroke on it's muscle causing her to get pain. So, far in the last month she's been trying very hard to recover from the hospital. The doctor found that she had an disease in her brain that was to late to recover, but all we can do is hope for her to stay with us a little bit longer.This week, she came back and my uncle who she live with decided to do a big feast to welcome back home and for her to get better.

Sunday morning around 5:00am, I had to wake up with my mother in law and husband to kill two pig and an cow. We butcher and clean the pig and cow then coming home to around 11:00pm and starting to get ready to do the feast. We had a lot of people that came to the house already and we had to start cooking the main meals. There was rice need to be steamed, vegetable be washed, meat be cut into smaller pieces and cook into meal courses.

After the whole house was so packed, it was only women's job into cooking and staying upstairs with the other older woman. For the guys, they go downstairs to eat, drink and talk. Later on the my grandma would have to sit on the bench, as this shamen guy come to read her spirit of why she's sick. They then later tell my uncle what her cause is for her to be so sick. My grandma is a strong women, at the age of 89 years old she can still walk, and able to do anything like an younger women.

Finally, after all the older men are drunk, their wives come and take them home. It's me, my sister in law and my mother in law cleaning the house. All dishes washed and put back away. Leftover food, is given to guest and whatever is left is in our refrigerator. As the tables, chairs and garbage is taken care of from the guys. This feast is fast, but hard working. In the end, my grandma's outcome of the day was an success. She is happier and can go to sleep knowing how much people really love her to do all of this.