It is now the day after Christmas and I'm sure all of you are so filled with joy and happiness that you all got to spend this wonderful holiday with your family, friends, and loved ones. I know I am. I am so stuffed from all the delicious food and yummy desserts that were on that dinner table. Yummy yummy.
My family, every year, has our traditional Christmas dinner on the day before Christmas. Christmas Eve. We celebrate it on Christmas Eve so that we can just relax on Christmas day. My family isn't one of those families where we dress up nicely for dinner. When we're having dinner, we like to eat comfortably. We just started making Christmas pajamas a family tradition for dinner. When we do dress nicely, we take lots and lots of family pictures on Christmas day.
This year, we had our Christmas dinner at my uncle's house (it's usually at my house). Since I'm Asian, it's only right to celebrate with Asian food. This year, we went with a Spicy Thai Noodle Soup with Laotian sticky rice, egg rolls (which were very delicious by the way), BBQ wings, and a Laotian papaya salad. What a delicious meal it was! I was eating and eating until I couldn't fill up my stomach anymore! My family is very casual so we just eat wherever we want. I sat with the girls, which included my mom and my aunts, and we just ate and talked. I was having a wonderful time!
Right after dinner, we decided to open the Christmas gifts! My little brothers and baby cousins were super excited to open their presents that we couldn't keep them away from tearing their gifts all at once! We had to make sure to calm them down and tell them to wait until every gift has been passed out and then they could open their gifts. Once everyone got their gifts, we all opened them together. It was fun and exciting to watch! Many eyes sparkled as they opened their gifts and saw what they got. They were extremely happy and grateful for their gifts.
I got a bunch of stuff as well, which made me very happy! I was gifted a fuzzy hat, which came along with fuzzy socks, face masks, makeup wipes, a Sephora gift card, a Starbucks gift card, gas gift card (what I REALLY needed), Christmas pajama pants, makeup kit, handbag, and some necklaces! At that time, I was just so happy that I got all of these. I really wasn't expecting gifts from anyone because I'm all grown up now, however; I'm extremely grateful for my family for thinking of me and going out to buy me gifts for Christmas.
After our gift opening, we celebrated my grandmother's 63 birthday (which is on the 28th of December), blowing out the candles and eating cake as well as gingerbread cookies, tiramisu, and brownie cakes made by one of my aunts. They were so delicious and I couldn't get enough. I was eating all those desserts up like crazy! Soon, the party died down as the older folks left to retire for the night and us girls decided to make coffee and eat desserts while watching a movie. You would think that because it's a Christmas celebration that we would watch a Christmas movie. Ha nope! We ended up picking Cinderella (2015 movie) and watched it.
I was really enjoying my Christmas celebration with my family. It made me really happy and always reminds me that family is for life. I love my family and I don't know what I would do without them. I hope you all have enjoyed your Christmas holiday with your loved ones and experienced the joy and love as I have. Here's another Merry Christmas to you all and can't wait to write for you for the New Year's!
