This coming Christmas will be our second time to celebrate Jesus’s birthday together as a family. That is, if you start counting at 2010 as our first. Technically, that’s true. I’m happy it’s gonna be like this in the years ahead!

Would you believe that for nine years my family and I had lived apart? I was in Manila then getting college education while they were in a faraway province called Negros Oriental. One by one, I was able to get them back here in Manila, for us to live together again (yes, that’s the breadwinner in me speaking). It’s a long story, so I’ll just keep it as short as that.

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That is the question hanging in my head at present. You see, Christmas is fast approaching and yet I’m still undecided on what Christmas presents to give my parents and three siblings. As much as possible, I want to give them something useful.

These are the things I’m thinking of wrapping up for them just in time for Jesus’s birthday: a gold necklace for my mom (she loves everything that’s shining-shimmering-splendid!), a new pair of shoes for my dad (I think he needs a leather pair for formal occasions), a new backpack for my teacher brother (the one he’s using right now is worn-out already!), and for my two sisters: cute undergarments (just because they’re girls and love fancy stuff, haha).

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