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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

17 days, 3 hours and 19 minutes – that’s how long it’s been since I last blogged. I’ve been uninspired lately. Too much work. I’ve been feeling a bit stressed lately with my office work – deadlines are creeping up, but some of the things that you need to do is being held up by something (or somebody). We’ve got this project that needs to be finished before Christmas (since almost everyone on the team is taking Christmas to New Year’s off). Anyway, office life sucks, but my family life is doing great.

We finally put up our Christmas lights this week. Right now, from the outisde, it’s just the main door and the stairs leading to that door that’s decorated. I wanted to do the garage doors as well, but the icicle lights we bought weren’t cooperating. For each set that we bought, only about half of the lights seem to work. We’ll probably just replace those this weekend and finally finish up the exterior decorating. One nice touch that we would have wanted was to buy a parol to give our house a Filipino flavor, but we really couldn’t pick one out that we liked. We’ll just have to postpone that decorating idea til next year.

Our Christmas tree though has been up since early November, and that’s been a really nice sight to see every night coming home. It’s the first big tree we’ve bought since moving here to the States. We would’ve liked to buy a real tree, but just thought it was too much of a pain to maintain and clean, so we went the plastic, artificial route. Zoe loves calling it “my tree”, and of course, all the presents underneath are “my presents”.

The family room is looking very Christmas-y too. We bought a wreath to hang over the fireplace and Aileen hung up our traditional Christmas socks (which she handmade herself three years ago), and as a finishing touch, I cleaned it up pretty darn good too.

I finally got Aileen some presents the other day, and I kinda think she’ll like these. She’s always the hardest to buy presents for because it seems like she’s got everything – except that Audi TT that she wants, and the 2 carat diamond she’s been pining for. Unfortunately, there’s no way I can get her that stuff right now.

Anyway, Christmas is being anticipated eagerly in our household. We really have a lot to be thankful for this year – our family has been pretty healthy (although Mommy Digna is still undergoing chemo, she’s seems to be responding well to it), we have a new home that we can call our own, our daughter is a very happy kid. We really can’t ask for anything more.