Blog#104

23 years ago, and I was just 8 years old, my big brother was ten years old and my younger brother was just 7.

Once upon a time, during Christmas day. My siblings and I used to woke up as early as 5:30 a.m to prepare our selves as we will be going to every house's we see in our village. Around 6:00 o'clock we are already ready with our bag's in our hands and we will run with full of excitement and joy to the street. Each person we meet at the street has the sweetest smile we've ever see during that day. While greeting each other a Merry Christmas, some of them will give us money and some will give us candy.

At first we will be going to the house of our neighbors. We usually choose big house's as for sure they will give us money 😂. As kids, once we see big house, all we think the people inside are rich and have a lot of money lol. We will knock their doors and greet them a Merry Christmas with smile and they will greet us too and give us some presents, but mostly cash. Some would give us 100pesos and that was 1.90usd, some would give 0.20usd and as a kid that was already big amount of money. Some of them will offer us food, and if we won't eat they will let us bring the food to our house and share it to our parents, that's how generous our neighbors before.

Well that was before, not now anymore 😅. People really changed.

Second, we will be going to our Godparents house. Each Godparents will give gifts to their Godchild and they will just give cash for the siblings, some Godparents will also give money to their Godchildren. But fortunately we also have some Godparents who will ghost us lol. Being a kid's we don't understand them, even though they are at home they will ignore us like they don't hear us😂.

But of course our parents will let us understand that Christmas is not all about gift giving, and it is not a responsibility of our Godparents to give us gifts. But even our parents have already told us about that, I still don't understand them 🤣😂. All I know, Christmas is gift giving lol.

I actually feel ashamed about my behaviour as a kid, when I grow older🤣😂. I'm a quiet stubborn back then 😂.

Third, we will be visiting our relatives house's. Some of our relatives will give us gifts and some will give us money. Some will also offer us food. But that was also before as they change too.

As a kid, I am more happy if I received money than gift lol. I really appreciate money at my younger age 😂. Because if I received money, then I can buy whatever I want but if they give me gift and the thing that was inside of that wrapped box is not my type, then I can't use it 😂. But of course I appreciate their efforts for buying me a gift, I'm just a little stubborn kid.

Around 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon we will be in our way back home. We are happy as we have lots of candies in our bag's. In our way, we are eating some of our candies and chocolate. We are laughing while running in the street, trying to catch each other 🤣😂

When we arrive home, we are excited to check of how much money we have 🤣. We will put our gift aside as we already know what's inside that wrapping paper lol.

I still remember the biggest money I got during Christmas day is $15usd, while my brother's has more than I have as their Godparents give them more. I only have two godparents, and I don't know why 😂. While my brother's has many.

After checking our money we will be checking our candies. We will separate them according to what kind of candies they are. And sometimes we do exchanges, if I got a different kind of candy which they don't have, they will exchange it with the candy that I don't have🤣😂.

Our mom will keep the money for us and the candies as she knows that we won't stop eating them until they finish 🤣😂. Every day she just give us one candy but sometimes if our mom wasn't home we will sneak some candy lol.

Those are my childhood sweetest memory about Christmas day . My golden day's.

Closing thoughts;

Things and people may change but we can keep those good memories in our hearts. Actually, we can still celebrate the Christmas as we use to celebrate it before. We can still be a giver and enjoy each day, like it is a Christmas day.

This is all for today guy's, i hope you had a great day and enjoying your day with your lovely family.

Merry Christmas!

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