Christmas At Home

I can't believe it's almost a year since I wrote this blog that I'm pasting below. Anyway, here it is!

December is only less than a month away. Christmas is already in the air. I'm finally going home after more than two years of being away. Last Christmas, I was hoping for someone to come home so it was almost a relief that I couldn't go home to my folks in General Santos City. I could have gone home had I really wanted to. But I didn't. I wanted more to be here in Manila just in case. This Christmas, I wanted to stay here after news reached me that he's coming home. But I think it would be wise for me to make other plans so I won't find myself pining.

It's probably this Christmas when I need family around me the most. I need to put myself together so I can welcome the next year with renewed strength. Life doesn't get any easier as we get older. In fact, it's the opposite. It gets more difficult the older we get. Problems are more complicated. We need our loved ones to help us mend ourselves and be ready for another year.

We have already put up our little Christmas tree at the condo. We have more plans for it but we never got around to making them happen. We just got preoccupied with other things. So our tree just has Christmas balls and blinking lights, that's it. We don't even have a star yet. Oh, and it has a sash! It should be that thingie that goes around it like how the lights go but we didn't have enough material so it ended up just looking like a sash. But it's our tree. It's my first tree!

I pray that my Christmas will be merry.