Apples and Plastic bags

I was going through my feeds this afternoon and I stumbled upon a question:

What's your favorite Christmas memory?

So I pondered.

I remember hanging plastic bags by the window after dinner on the 24th. We cannot even afford to buy Christmas stockings. We would then go to sleep and the parents will wake us up for the Aguinaldo mass. By the time we're back from the church, our plastic bags would be filled with an apple each, and something else we didn't ask for. Back then, apples were only available during December. We were nice kids all year long but Santa never gave us what we wished for. And yet we never questioned why our cousins got better gifts (we used to live in the same compound as our maternal relatives). Plus our Christmases were always uber happy sans the perfect gifts.

How about you, what's your favorite Christmas memory?

ps. When we moved to a new home, Santa stopped coming over because our house had window grills and we didn't have a chimney. LOL!

Christmas lights are blinking!

October starts tomorrow and I can feel as the days go by that Christmas is just around the corner. I now observe that some homes have put up their colorful landscape lighting and running lights as they do each year, giving their houses that festive mood. I haven't experienced spending the Holidays away from the Philippines but a lot of those I know still prefer to spend it here, with all the hoopla and more. Afterall, there is no place like home.

By the way, in case you need to know, a friend said last week that the lantern stores along Granada in QC were being asked to close shop. The local government apparently would like to avoid heavy traffic jams along that street especially when the holiday rush starts in November.