December Fever

Hi folks, how's your December? Few days from now and it's gonna be already Christmas. We have a lot of activities lined up in the coming days. We'll have an institutional party on the 17th and thankfully, that would be the end of work for this year and it's gonna be a Christmas vacation already.

December 17 is also the last day of my school for the first term. I want to finish all my requirements before I go vacation so that I don't have to deal with it once I'll go back.

We are scheduled to have a party also on the 18th and it's gonna be a beach party. We'll bring with us our little Keona. She is already very excited and been talking about it most of the time:).

That's all for now friends, have a nice day.

Christmas 2010

We spent our Christmas at home with a simple noche buena. Troy and Therese visited us in the early evening to join our dinner. We had the indispensable lechon(roasted pig), my fave fruit salad, and spaghetti. Pappa rented a videoke so there was a singing in the terrace.

I admire little Keona's stamina. She never sleeps until 12:00 o'clock midnight, Christmas eve. She also ate a lot especially the fruit salad. Hmmm....like mother, like daughter. I have not taken any photos. I just felt lazy taking photos and just enjoy the moment. Merry Christmas everyone.

Merry Christmas

Here's greeting to all my online friends a very merry Christmas. Hope you have a blessed and joyful celebration of the birth of our Lord.

Christmas Party

We had a Christmas party this morning at work and we had so much fun. Presentations from different departments were awesome. Food was great and we had a big burp after taking our lunch. The best thing is that the party signals the beginning of our Christmas vacation. Season's greetings everyone:)

Enjoying holiday and Kadayawan festivities

I have no work on Friday and Saturday because we are celebrating the Kadayawan festival. I love it. I just stay home playing, cuddling, teasing my little girl. We also watch her fave shows on Disney channel and of course, her fave Hi Five songs. Have a great weekend friends:)

Christmas Noche Buena

How's your Christmas celebration? We celebrated Christmas without firecrackers for it is prohibited here in Davao City. To make some noise on the Christmas eve, Pappa rented a videoke and we sing our hearts out:). I really am not fond of singing.hehe.I'm afraid the rain will pour down if I sing :). It was the house helps who were like making a concert of themselves and sing until around 3 o'clock in the morning. They just lowered the volume so as not to disturbed the neighbors. We also use toy horn (locally known as torotot).What's on our table? Yummy lechon (roasted pig), spaghetti, mango float, pineapple bars, ice cream....It is the time that I really indulge:), not minding of the fats.

videoke singing

fruit salad

Chopseuy


Embutido

Yummy lechon...never mind the cholesterol.LOL


Pineapple bars

Merry Christmas

Few hours from now and it's Christmas eve. Just finished putting Keona to bed. And I'm here sneaking out...to greet to you my online friends a merry, peaceful, graceful Christmas :).

On Christmas caroling and carolers

Since it's Christmas season there are so many children who are doing their caroling in our house . They are so many that, if we don't prepare for coins, we'll run out of something to give to them. The funny thing is, their lyrics are far from the correct one:).

Joy to the world, the Lord is come. Let ever see, ber see....

Mom gets irritated with it but I find it cute.hehehe. I can relate to it because me and my cousins used to do caroling when we were also young. And we didn't care about the lyrics.LOL. As long as it sounds the same. Hubby is very strict to the carolers. He wants them to sing 2 or 3 songs before he gives them coins because when he was young, he used to sing 2-3 songs in every house.

For me, as long as they sing it from their heart, it's OK. I like the simplicity and the innocence of the carolers. Merry Christmas everyone!

I love Christmas vacation!

Today starts our Christmas vacation. Yipeeee! I'm savoring this moment. No work. No rushing in the morning. No setting of time in the alarm clock. No seeing of Keona's sad face (sometimes crying face) when me and hubby bid her goodbye for work.

I love Christmas vacation. Time to stroll around in the neighborhood. Me and hubby together with Keona can have an afternoon walk. We have all the time we can spend the way we want it. And I can laze around just like Sundays:). Four more days to go and it's gonna be Christmas time. Done with the groceries and shopping with gifts. Merry Christmas everyone:)

All dressed up for Christmas

Mom has been very busy putting up Christmas decors at home lately. She had a tree and put on the lights in front of the house. Keona, being very curious, kept on getting the Christmas balls in the tree. And she wants to get outside of the house to see the beautiful lights in the neighborhood!

Keona gets the boxes below the tree

Here she is, touching the decors of the tree

She always says "ganda" (beautiful) of these lights in our door


Keona loves to see these lights in the neighborhood

Advent recollection for me and hubby

Advent is a time when we Catholics prepare for the coming of Jesus in Christmas. As I have mentioned in my previous post, me and hubby attended a recollection. It is intended for evaluating ourselves in a spiritual manner. As Socrates have said, "an unexamined life is not worth living". So that recollection is like examining ourselves. It's also a good time for us to bond spiritually.

A lot of things we have learned from our facilitator Fr. Jose Mari Esquadro:

• we should let go of our past hurts and we should not allow it to hamper us from growing.
• we can be likened to a well. in the surface is a very clean water but beneath the water, there's dirt and mud in it. but if we go beyond the water, there is that spring which gives life to the well. as a person, we should not dwell on our woundedness.
• we can be likened to a mustard seed. the question is..have far have we grown? do we bear fruits?

SVD Chapel, where we had our recollection

Me and hubby taking our snacks during the recollection