chilling out
Holiday greetings through cards online and off have been coming in since December started. It’s nice and sweet to be thought of, isn’t it? My YM is full of offline messages and my Chikka, too from friends and loved ones who connect with me. My cell phone, is too. It’s just a joy to have people around greeting us during this time. Do you feel the same way, too? Yesterday, we hopped in at Wal-mart to do grocery shopping and and I glad the personalized photo mug I ordered was already done and I picked it up and hopefully, I could give this to the person I made this for. We are chilling out right now, playing, videokeing and just watching TV. There are many Christmas programs on TV and they’re enough to fill our day with bonding time. Last night, we baked a homemade bread and I made beef stew for dinner. We were so tired yesterday from a very long day and right now, we are waiting for SIL to go online so we will know that she made it to Manila already. Last night too, a terrible news was received when we were told that MIL’s dear Aunt in CDO whom she considered to have a huge part of her life passed away. She was devastated that she couldn’t be there, but life’s like that anyways.
Our families in CDO shared with us how everybody is in crisis financially these times. But they still all had fun with their Christmas Eve because fireworks were still lit up and heard. We’ve chatted with my brother-in-law who is working in Cebu Memorial Medical Center and he has shared how many people were rushed to the ER and OR who were victims of firecrackers that got burned and were badly hurt. Nah… it’s the usual Filipino celebration of Christmas Day so it’s nothing really new to us. It’s just too bad that I haven’t talked to my mother, I have been calling her phone but I couldn’t get through. Nobody picks up the phone at home, too. Hmmm… they may be having an overcelebration I think? LOL I may have to dial their number again later. How has everybody been?
