Finally, I have the time to sit down and write my Christmas entry. A lot of things happened first before Christmas like our Overstay-Border run Experience, Village party and etc. but for now, I'll just have to write about our Christmas Eve (Filipino style) first.
Aside from our family and our Anneh's family, we only invited two couples who're very close to us, since we'll be hosting another Christmas dinner on the following night.
So, our friends started coming at 7:30 and we started out with dinner at 8:00 pm. We had Indian and Filipino/American dishes for dinner. I didn't cook the Indian dishes as it might turn out to be a Pindian Dish. So, our Akka, a real Indian cooked the Indian dish and indeed it had that authentic taste. Yum! I just made lasagna, brownies and roasted chicken while my cousin made eschabeche (sweet and sour fish).
After dinner, we had worship and sang songs to Jesus, the Reason for the Season. We had a good time of worship. Then we asked each one to take turns in sharing one of the many things that we are thankful to God for the year 2007. Guess what I was thankful for the year 2007...hmmm...of course, the birth of our precious baby boy. Others shared about how God protected them, provided for them, or giving them the desires of their hearts.
Rajah Anneh thanking God for protection during the car accident they had
Sak thanking God for His continuous provision
Then we had gift giving. We're supposed to have 'exchanging of gifts’ but since almost everyone has a present for everybody, then we decided to cancel it and call it gift giving instead. Or I think, that's what we did is the REAL exchanging of gifts. Anyways, we made it in such a way that whoever is going to give the gift for must describe the receiver in two words first before giving it...so, there were descriptions like Miss Universe, Miss SS (secret!), Joker Sak, smiling buddha, 10 years younger (oh, that’s more than two words) and etc. :)
Then, the most exciting part of the program came, and that is the opening of gifts! There was this one girl who was the happiest of all because she got her wishes fulfilled. She's non other than my Li'l girl. She got a pair of rabbits from her Ninong Junjun and an electronic keyboard from..guess who? :) wow! she was just so happy when she saw her rabbits. She ended up praying " Lord, thank you for my rabbits. I'm so happy Lord. I like it so much!" I just hope her rabbits will survive this time. I think they will since they are bigger rabbits now.
Tada!!! Two cutee rabbits!!
All of us got so much of presents and we all were just saying ... wow! ..wow! ..wow! .. everytime we opened the gifts. :)
Then, after all the excitement, we had coffee break and just waited for 12midnight to strike and talked, talked, talked ..and at 12 midnight..this is what happened....
Well..we had indeed had a blessed and FUN Christmas Eve! Hope you all had a blessed Christmas and wishing you all a fruitful new year!!
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