What happened to my Christmas Checklist?

Yesterday, I shared with you my Christmas checklist via https://read.cash/@Khing14/my-christmas-checklist-2021-1af96ce5.

Hence, I think I am obliged to share what happened to it!.

First in my list is to make "lumpiang shanghai". I woke yesterday at around 9AM in the morning. I woke up late because I also slept late due to my working schedule which is 4:00PM to 1:00AM. After shift, I have to spend an hour or two cleaning the mess downstairs (in our living room, dining area and of course the kitchen area because my three kids are very good in creating a surprise for me. Actually, it's no longer a surprise, because I am already expecting that downstairs will be disaster!. Night time is my best time to clean when my kids are all asleep. I can actually clean the house peacefully and without any distractions.

While I am enjoying my cup of coffee, I texted my husband to buy the necessary ingredients for my lumpiang shanghai. As I have mentioned in my yesterday's article, my main ingredient is ground chicken instead of ground pork. So my husband went to the nearby "talipapa" to supposedly gather the ingredients because his store is out of chicken already. But unfortunately, there are no available ground chicken. I don't want to insist and stress my husband looking for it hence I told him to buy "kinayod na buko" because I will be making "buko salad" for our dessert. But to my surprise, he told me that we already have buko salad stored in the freezer (in our store). He already asked his cook to prepare "buko salad" yesterday.

Next in the list is the GIFT (wrapped). Before my shift starts earlier (4:00PM), at around 2:00 in the afternoon, I asked my husband to accompany me to the mall for me to buy a surprise gifts for my kids. I am anticipating that I'll be late for an hour or 2 from my start shift hence I left a message to my colleagues.

I know it won't be an issue with them because I often extend my shift without charging it to overtime as well just to help them resolving an issue or guiding them since most of my colleagues are actually newbies.

But then, things didn't go well as planned. We did not anticipated the traffic.

The 15 to 20 minutes drive has doubled. We arrived at the mall at around 4:00PM in the afternoon already because we left the house past 3.

While we're on our way to the parking, we've already noticed the volume of people in the mall and hence the volume of vehicles in the parking lot as well. But then, I decided to still try my luck. However, this scene welcomed me upon entering the mall's department store:

The queue in the cashier is sooooo loooooonnnnngggggg!!!!!.

So instead of buying some gifts, I decided to defer the plan to some other day because I felt that it won't work. I mean, I might not be able to login within the time that I told my colleagues before I left.

In short, item number 2 is an X as well.

Third item in my list is the "Family Picture". 15 minutes before midnight earlier, I already step away from my PC to prepare our table and gather everyone to eat. After we ate, I told them to sit in the sofa because we will take group-fie so that we have the remembrance of the 2021 Christmas.

And here are some of our clicks. Apologies because my shots are actually not good. I am not a good photographer.

Note: I have to blur the photo for privacy purposes.

So this item is a check!

Last item in my list is "Videoke". I am able to download more than 200 karaoke songs until yesterday afternoon. It's a combination of Tagalog and English songs.

I used my PC to download them and then transferred afterwards to my husband and also to my phone (as back-up).

Unfortunately, the picnic plan that we supposed to do later is not yet finalized. My husband's chest is in pain as of last night after he forcedly carry some heavy stuffs yesterday. But, the kids are looking forward to having a picnic, so, I might push for this one to happen unless my husband's chest pain came to worst.

Here's the summary:

That would be all for today folks! It's almost 5:00 AM here in the Philippines, so I have to take a rest for awhile.

Again, wishing you all a very Wonderful Christmas!. Please let us not forget the reason for this season - Jesus Christ!.