MELI KLISMAS EBLIBADI!!!

PASKO na! it only shows how slow i am in giving my few friends updates on my boring humdrum life. well, here goes...

it's 3 days before CHRISTMAS. what have i done this season? SHOP, SHOP, SHOP! i literally got tired of shopping for Christmas that all weekends of december was spent at home sleeping and watching movies. i am a girl scout, always ready. i started shopping in october. i finished before thanksgiving. i felt i have accomplished a lot of things. for my kids, i bought them everything they wanted from jerseys to reeboks to armsleeves to basketball to gameboy to xbox. whatever fitted in those balikbayan boxes, i tried to buy for them. they deserve everything coz they've been good and they've always stayed good to me, to my mom and to their siblings. as usual, i did all the shopping in this house. i bought stuff for my husband's children and grandchildren. they are blessed to have a good father who try to compensate his absence in their lives when they were little with providing them whatever they need and most of the time even the things they think they can get hold of. am i a wicked stepmother? hell, yeah! i have all the right to. but, i still bought gifts for them, neatly packed them in boxes with the strongest packaging tape and sent them off at my own expense to their houses in arkansas.

on to the more important stuff. my kids received their boxes(i sent 3 jumbo boxes!) on december 15th (there's another box sent out dec. 15th). i knew they will just open everything so, no complains whatsoever. my oldest son luis never stopped talking about "his" stuff. he loves everything that i sent him. that's why i don't get tired listening to their "ma, buy me this or that" becasue at the end of the day, all i hear would be happy, excited voices telling me how they loved the things that i sent them. tyrone, my 4-yr old baby talks faster than the speed of light. "mama, kshgfahyrtowhgfbnkj weropwiutnbnkdhfghw'oejrf skgnohrtoij sojgtoiarhtok ghdfhgkjhtuirnjmn" it doesn't matter to me. i love him and i know he knows it. he plays with his gameboy 24/7 and i'm so proud of him that he's growing up to be very smart like his kuyas. jerome sadly never got the chance to play with his xbox because someone plugged it wrong. electric stuff that comes from USA needs 110 voltage. duh??? i want to curse them out but, what will it do? i'll just buy him another one and let my mom take it to him when she gets back home.

i have so many things i love about CHRISTMAS and no one can "grinch" when i'm around, i mean, NO ONE!!! i love watching christmas movie reruns--santa clause 1 & 2, how the grinch stole christmas, home alone, home for the holidays. i love writing my christmas list--the naughty at the back page and the nice people infront in bold letters. i love listening to christmas songs 24/7. i love shopping for everybody on my list, including their children, their moms, their wives, their neighbors--how inconsiderable can i be if i don't include everyone? i love decorating. i love wrapping gifts nice and elaborate. i love mailing out personalized christmas cards when there is no line at the post office. i love driving around the city checking out houses with outrageous decorations and lights. i love eating and drinking at parties i'm invited to. i love mingling with friends and family. i love stressing myself in any way i can just to make sure everybody knows i'm thinking of them this season. that's me. it might be a lot of effort i put in for this month-long celebration but, the same with joyie, i don't receive gifts as much as i give them out. my list starts from my children, my husband,my mom, my brothers, my sister, some of my friends, my boss, my coworkers, people from my bank, people from my post office, people from my favorite store, people i feel like giving gifts to. no grinch can stop me. santa had a strong effect on me and i'm just fulfilling his legacy--give gifts to the people around you.

i wish to have a huge, well-lit, well-decorated christmas tree with lots of gifts under it when i get my own house. that dream will materialize maybe next year when i sign for a loan so we can buy a house. cool!

i love seeing those faces when i hand them out their gifts and i am very amazed when i see the grins and the huge smiles on their faces when they see the gifts that i give to them. it makes me happy and my heart gets filled with so much love this season.

there will be lots of christmases coming and i will still get excited and show people i think of them and i remember them on this special occasion. i just hope that they feel the same with me and give me a hint that i'm remembered to...

LET'S CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WITH LOVE IN OUR HEARTS AND PEACE IN OUR MINDS...