Merry Christmas!

Hi, dear readers! First things first, I want to greet you and your family a very Happy Christmas! :) I hope you stuff yourself into all that food and please don't forget to greet baby Jesus a Happy Birthday! Last night, there were only nine of us here - My dad, my mom, my sister, me, my three cousins, my cousin's husband and her baby Gab. It was all new to us. It was quiet, it was fast, it was kind of sad. See, growing up, we experienced the best Christmases ever - there were fifteen of us every year - my mom's dad, her siblings, then my cousins. We'd always have something to do. My mom and my tita's would be playing Mah Jong, my sister and my older cousins would be drinking beer and what not, my dad and my lolo and my tito's would be drinking too, me and my (almost-same-age) cousins would be watching movies, and my younger cousins would either be sleeping or playing. Last night, it was different - my dad stayed in their room with baby Gab sleeping, my mom was preparing Noche Buena, my ate, my two cousins, and my cousin's husband were playing Mah Jong while drinking and me and my cousin, Kandy were just taking pictures and stuff.

But whatever, it was still fun, nonetheless. My tita (my cousins' mom) kept on calling from work to greet everyone, my lolo (who's visiting my cousins in Australia) called up and we talked to him, my tito and my cousin. When the clock struck 12AM, we all greeted Merry Christmas to each other the same way we did every year ever since we were all born. Kandy and I (mostly Kandy) shouted the names on the Christmas cards on the gifts and then we opened them. I got great gifts this year - my parents got me a clutch and a Juicy Couture perfume (I never thought I had one!), my cousin and her husband got me a really cute shirt, and so did my lolo, my tita gave me an OWL CITY album, my cousin and his girlfriend got me SIMS 2 (Expansion. We kept on laughing last night 'cause just two weeks ago, I finally installed SIMS 2 on my computer, and he didn't know.). The present I'm really, really ennjoying the most though is the one from my oh, so great sister.

She got me the "RELAKS, PUSO LANG YAN, MALAYO SA BITUKA" planner! It's really cute and funny with all these "important events" written every week, if not everyday. Like this one:

I love it 'cause it's really funny! It has big spaces for everyday, too. So I guess you can be artsy or busy or artsy AND busy! It has nice designs per month, too:

And they have what you call, "activities" in some parts. Like, fill in the blank things:

(By the way, don't you just MISS AND LOVE "The Little Rascals"?!)

Thank you so much to my sister for giving this to me. :) It's really sweet and special. I love you so much, Merry Christmas!

Anyway, I just wanted to share Christmas Eve to you guys. But I have to go now 'cause my mom and my sister are making me get ready 'cause relatives and friends are coming over in less than an hour. Hoping your Christmases are going fine and dandy like mine! Merry Christmas! :)