what a christmas that was!
it took me 3 hours before reaching our home in novaliches, grabe! the traffic wasn't so bad, but the volume of people and the load that i needed to carry kept me from moving the way i wanted to. well, i needed to carry all my laundry to novaliches coz remember, i just moved in my new place. plus, all the presents that needed to be wrapped were all handcarried by me. poor me! hehehehe! i promised myself last year to bring all necessary holiday stuff to novaliches in batches, so that i won't have to get 'em all home in one go. but i never learned my lesson, i guess.
when i got home, time to start wrapping all the gifts. before i knew it, it was already 10 pm. i quickly did a sampling of tita jo's beef caldereta and then freshened up a bit. liezl and her family were in charles' place, but ate ne and jel were the welcome addition this year!
during noche buena, our table wasn't oveflowing with food, which is definitely ok. what kept us glued in our seats were the horrid but funny stories from ate ne, especially their everyday travails with jeepney & bus drivers who frequent their sari-sari store & mini-resto in bulacan. of course, all the tsismis in and around capri are still there.
when i woke up around 10 am, troops of godchildren were already making their rounds. almost all of my siblings, papa and tita jo have literally tons of inaanaks and most of these children don't fail to pass by our house. then, it was time to go to t'yang charing's place. after some 2 hours, we left for trinoma. this was by far our biggest trooping to a mall. normally, we'd be malling in small groups. it was different this time. there was papa & tita jo, ate she's family (4 of them), liezl & izhi, kuya bob's brood (5 of them) and myself - 14 all in all! ang saya! we had a quick dinner at dencio's, before nice & utoy went to look for jeans. after that, the older men had coffee and off went home.
on the 26th, we went to ate ne's place in bulacan. some nice huntahan and kainan again.
it took me 3 hours before reaching our home in novaliches, grabe! the traffic wasn't so bad, but the volume of people and the load that i needed to carry kept me from moving the way i wanted to. well, i needed to carry all my laundry to novaliches coz remember, i just moved in my new place. plus, all the presents that needed to be wrapped were all handcarried by me. poor me! hehehehe! i promised myself last year to bring all necessary holiday stuff to novaliches in batches, so that i won't have to get 'em all home in one go. but i never learned my lesson, i guess.
when i got home, time to start wrapping all the gifts. before i knew it, it was already 10 pm. i quickly did a sampling of tita jo's beef caldereta and then freshened up a bit. liezl and her family were in charles' place, but ate ne and jel were the welcome addition this year!
during noche buena, our table wasn't oveflowing with food, which is definitely ok. what kept us glued in our seats were the horrid but funny stories from ate ne, especially their everyday travails with jeepney & bus drivers who frequent their sari-sari store & mini-resto in bulacan. of course, all the tsismis in and around capri are still there.
when i woke up around 10 am, troops of godchildren were already making their rounds. almost all of my siblings, papa and tita jo have literally tons of inaanaks and most of these children don't fail to pass by our house. then, it was time to go to t'yang charing's place. after some 2 hours, we left for trinoma. this was by far our biggest trooping to a mall. normally, we'd be malling in small groups. it was different this time. there was papa & tita jo, ate she's family (4 of them), liezl & izhi, kuya bob's brood (5 of them) and myself - 14 all in all! ang saya! we had a quick dinner at dencio's, before nice & utoy went to look for jeans. after that, the older men had coffee and off went home.
on the 26th, we went to ate ne's place in bulacan. some nice huntahan and kainan again.
while the cool christmas breeze blows, warm family bonding is what this christmas was all about. there's nothing like spending some quality time with the ones you love. merry christmas!
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