I’m writing this post, for the spirit of Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

This was the most tiring and most spend freaking season of every year. When Paulo started to have a job that was 3.5 years ago, and even myself, we both have this gift giving attitude to everybody (relatives and extended). We, as a married couple with a son and me as a house wife who is 100% dependent to his income, usually think on how can we make other people glad about what we can give to them as a gift for Christmas without spending so much about it.

I remember when i was still a kid who always enjoys collecting gifts and mostly expecting money for Christmas, i always look forward to how expensive or how much i can earn every Christmas season without realizing that Christmas is really not for what to receive but how those person who gave me that gift tried hard to think on how i can be glad about that gift that person gave me.

Now that i have my own family and a son who is always looking forward to recieveing gifts for christmas, i was definitely applying to him what i learned. That is “Christmas is not about what you will recieve but how the person make us glad about what we recieved from them”. I always told everybody or every ninang/ninong of my son, i didn’t get you to be my son’s godfather or godmother for some materialistic reasons… No matter what they would give to my son would be very gladly appreciated by his parents.

Last monday, i watched the video that i made when we got to our house that Chritmas afternoon. there are so many gifts Kenzi received from our lovedones and his ninongs and ninangs.  A video of him openning his gift from christmas, just like the past 2 years. Even in the video, i can say that my son, is very different from me when i was a kid. That moment, when he open every gift that he received that special day, all you can hear from him was “WOW!”, “ANG GANDA”, echoes of very happy appreciations of what he received. Me as a mother or as a parent never ever will imply words of regrets and/or disappointments on what he or i received from other people. I will never teach my son ever to ask for money nor say “sana pinera na lang ang regalo”. That was terribly wrong. It was really disappointing to hear something like that from anyone or someone, even from those who are not concerning me.

Well now, the THOUGHT really does counts? THE THOUGHT REALLY DOES COUNTS FOR ME.

Let us all learn to celebrate the TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS. Happy holidays

This will remember how glad my little boy was on what he had this year