Joy to the World!

Rejoice! Rejoice! I am singing alleluyah....... Well, because of the holiday season and maybe some more....

1. I got mail and I've always wanted to share it with you since I received this news on my birthday. Three months! Can you believe my self control? I was so excited to open this little package last week, and I can't take it anymore. I reckon it would be official and no hiding it from the public. With your permission my bff, I am posting this very special news with total submission. My heart is singing with joy right now for you and Carrie. Congratulations on your engagement! No worries, I photoshoped the invite so you won't get surprise visits on your "day".

2. Another package was waiting for me last night!

Surprisingly it was a bigger box this time. Oh my!

There goes my Christmas shopping. Ssshh... I might have overspent with 10 of those bags inside so don't tell my honey ok. But I did get good deals coz Studio Calico has given $5.00 off on add-ons for subscribers and a big sale on Black Friday. Now I can play with new Christmas products- yoo hoo! Do you ever feel like declaring bankruptcy after the holiday is over? Not that I have something to declare but just wondering.....

3. I might as well put a big hole in all of  my pockets. It felt good to have a day-off today and get the shopping over and done with. Mom was so much fun to watch. She was like this young lady ready to change her wardrobe and get into the latest fashion. You gotta see her new boots-- I am so jealous! Gotta thank my honey for all his patience too. How much more suffering can a man endure with two women shoppers in tow?

4. Now, with the most exciting part, guess what? I finished my 13th and not only that, my 14th JYC pages as well! Yay! I'd say that I had most fun doing these two because first off, the 13th is my forte. You know, when you know so much about a subject that you want to put it out there and tell all? I'm not going to brag about it coz I am not the type of person at all. It just happened that I lived it, experienced it and it is still a big part of my life:

Since I was a young girl, I was a choir member of our church in town which was considered  the biggest church where I lived and still is. It wasn't the most influential of my singing career-to-be/dream but I had so much fun with this group at the time. It was with them that I finally got involved in Christmas Caroling every evening and each and every song had to end with "we wish you a merry christmas!......and a happy new year!" And the envelope is handed to us even before we start singing this closing song. We sang well but I guess some people just don't like being disturbed or reminded that they had to give some charity, or something..... I miss those days and they never have them here on the Island! Should I start it? Thank humanity for Karaoke and boy, am I so glad I decided to buy one from the Philippines on my last holiday. So every evening after Christmas dinner, my honey would take the big screen out and start singing (his singing has also developed since then). Would you believe that mom sings too? No one does "Tennesse Waltz" better, and her "Beautiful Brown Eyes" just take us down to memory lane.... Sing it! Santa baby....

5. Tales of Gifts or Gift giving: speaking of mom, she'd always prefer, and maybe because it has been a tradition that every Christmas morning, we all gather at her place and pass on the gifts, and there we open them one by one before my honey leaves to do his Christmas visit at Randy's. But last year, because we now have our own place, we still kept the tradition going but again the venue has changed. So if any of you would like an exchange of gifts or receive gifts for that matter, now you know where we are and at what time. If you miss it, well, better luck next year....

This is back page of that picture above of my honey strumming his guitar with lyrics (he typed on a vellum, thanks Hon) of "Santa Baby" and chords for him as a reminder to learn how to play it, (he asked for it... ). I took this one at Starbucks in town along with other goodies I asked from the barista one cold weekend.

Like a little girl with her legs folded under her bum on the floor this morning, I finished this page off with my new Mr. Huey creamy white mist. Hope you enjoyed the story of the day.