A fresh year is here...

I'm still on a Holiday mode so I still cannot come up with more personal posts, LOL! So much happened after Christmas! I was, however, able to look back a bit, think and share what I am thankful for for the year that was. Click here to read all about it. How about you, what are you thankful for? I think it is the best time to sit down and recollect for a few minutes.

Happy New Year, everyone!!!

Credits: Ribbon by Coralee Evans; Hat by Syrin; Papers by Creashens; Stars by Thaliris Designs

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!