every year i make it a point to go home for Christmas. i book my ticket ahead of time and i file my leaves as early as october. it's just not Christmas if i don't spend it in ilocos with my family.
on Christmas day we gather at my maternal grandparents' house for a sumptuous Christmas lunch. after lunch we open gifts and after that it's time for the neighborhood 'palaro'. we host one every year and every year the children just keep coming. the day after Christmas we troop to Dibua which is just out of the city limits for the Tercia -- a tradition that we keep for as long as i can remember with the farmers who tend our lands (what was left after agrarian reform that is which doesn't amount to much really). every year it's the same menu - tinola, pansit and roasted mudfish - and yet we keep coming back for it.
this year we started a new tradition for the Monroy grandchildren and spouses. Dec. 27 we shall gather for an annual gift-giving which includes lunch of course and all that it entails. this year we did all the cooking which was fun. it was a moment to bond with my cousins and their spouses. i hope we keep this new tradition that we started.
my fortune for this year of the fire dog. Ox's Overview Horoscope General Situation You'll begin the year with good resolutions: to put your love life in order, to pull away the bad grasses of doubt and boredom, to dispel once for all the last misunderstandings. But such are things that are not as simple to achieve as they are to say. Fortunately, the astral influxes will stimulate your willpower and allow you to get results worthy of your requirements and hopes. Generally speaking, you'll have a new rendezvous with luck, success, vitality and love this year. The stars will help you solve your various problems, whatever they may be, because you'll be borne by great enthusiasm and will no longer be alone. Nothing could succeed in discouraging you; on the contrary, obstacles will stimulate you. You'll be well decided not to let yourself be disheartened. Wood Ox Do not isolate yourself; accept all invitations, as you'll always draw profit from them. Think of creati...
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