Here's wishing one and all a very merry Christmas!

Belated merry christmas! I had a great christmas this year because i managed to see all my long lost friends, and we had a great time together. It's such a nice feeling to see them again, it's as if we are back to our school days, having fun, behaving like little girls. I didn't expect to see them again due to our work and commitments, so i was really happy. To me, that was my best christmas gift ever.

Hi Eileenleyva!. Merry Christmas too to you and your family!. How is Christmas in your country! I believe its will very merry. I don't feel the situation to much because we are minority here. I love this discussion and glad to hear you are feel blessed and i think I need to start to counting mine. I hope we will had great Christmastime next year and always remember the reason why we celebrate it.

Hi eileenleyva, A very merry Christmas my friend to you and all those you love. I'm happy tat Christmas means so much to you and yes we should all count our blessings and just be happy. Blessings.

merry Christmas, I agree with you it's a time of giving and loving and thanksgiving. On my part i make a commitment to complete the 9 mornings just to give thanks for all the super abundant blessings that i have experienced and will be receiving this year.

And a Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. I am a shopaholic and I do tend to spend more money for my Christmas shopping than is really necessary. However, this year was very different from any of the Christmas shopping that I've ever done in the past. Instead of using credit cards, I've provided a Christmas for my family of approximately the same magnitude without using any money that didn't belong to my husband and myself.

God love you no matter what you have inside. and the people will understand how things are. i am not into the crowds and all of that stuff neither. and i do with what i have and my children,family and friend understand.

i would like to wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year too... i always try to remind myself that christmas is the time for me to reflect once again on the greatest love and grace that He had given to me by sending His beloved Son to come into this world to die for my sins... that's why every year during christmas it is a time for giving and share the Gospel to people who haven't heard about it before... take care and have a nice day...

I got the majority of all of my shopping done. I don't want to have to go anywhere on Christmas Eve because all of the malls are going to be filled with procrastinators.

HI, Merry Christmas to you and your family. I am Hindu so we do not celebrate Christmas like you Christians do. But i am going to buy some New year presents to all my friends and family. Yes i would like to buy some practical presents for them and one of them is double side pan for all my female friends. I hope they like it .

I'm like you have been so blessed in my 54 years of living, but this year he has blessed me tenfold and I'm so sincerely grateful and happy for the place that he has put me at this time in my life. When you pray to God and especially for a special thing he has bigger and better plans for you then you can wish for yourself. I only wish that more people would realize what Christmas is truly all about instead of all the worries of what gift to buy for someone. You to have a Blessed Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year!

Hello there!Merry Christmas to you too and your family as well. Have a blessed and prosperous New Year to come! Me, I couldn't do my usual Christmas shopping. I am not a victim of Holiday Rush this days because I am required by my OBGyne to just have a bed rest because of the condition of my baby inside me. Im glad however that when I visited her, my baby's now coping and she already have a normal size of gestational sac, unlike before that she's having too small sac which make her a candidate for miscarriage. My bed rest will end this 23rd of December. I'll just cook pasta and some desserts this Christmas eve together with ham and queso de bola of course. I really prepared a lot during New Year because its really festive when you spend bountiful food with your family during this season. I will thank the Lord on the day of December 25 during the mass and will greet Him a very Happy Birthday, He's really kind to us and this means so much, really. Merry Christmas to all myLotters out there too!

I also only able to buy a normal gifts this year for my family members. Nothing for my friends because I did not have enough extra money. But as long as we can celebrate Christmas together with happiness then that is enough for me. Merry Christmas to you too and Happy New year. Have a nice day

Merry Christmas! I love Filipino traditions. Yes sometimes we tend to splurge more of the material things and forgot the main reason of our celebration. We should thank God for giving us this time to celebrate His love for us.

Hi friend, so nice to have met a nice person like you here at mylot with values, beliefs and convictions that is so similar to ours MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hello Eileen, and Merry Christmas to you as well. I have looked up your foods and they sound interesting. I have not done a lot of shopping in the stores, I have shopped some online, and had purchased some things at sales this summer. I enjoyed looking up what your foods are.We are going to visit my brother. He pastors a church about four hours travel away from here. I asked today what foods I need to prepare, he said not to do anything special, we will just take it easy and enjoy the day and each other.

wow that was one way to greet someone a merry xmas! hhaha but like you i also do not buy ham even queso de bola, it just end up in the ref and not eaten, my family also do not appreciate that..i was even thinking of having a P1000 budget for xmas, so maybe ill buy whole chicken to roast and some pasta for salad and a cake. i guess that will do for xmas and it is the essence of xmas is what is more important.. btw, how do u make chicken embotido? i have not tried that, it was always pork embotido anyways, as for gifts, my daughter was wishing to have a toy called "baby alive" its like this talking - eating doll that costs a lot!! its 4,000.00 pesos!! so just last night i already briefed her that "santa" wont be giving her that hahahah because santa is broke! haha kidding, but i told her that is too much and i even told her that is she wants that she will have to save for that and maybe santa will still give her something special and less expensive and amazingly she understood ( i hope thoroughly) as for my younger son, all he want is a toy truck and toy car..i do not have a problem with that because i can buy that with just 100 pesos hehehe... the hullabaloo of xmas is also getting into me..its like draining me of energy! for this year, i did not prepare much nor decorate much, i just have to stick with the budget...so i will have more for next year..and yes I have made mistakes and i know amidst all that God still loves me too..no matter how sinful i have gotten hahahaha and i thank HIM everyday for that.. oh well Merry Christmas eileen :D

MERRY Christmas to you and yours as well eileen!!

Hi eileen, Just like you, I also give practical gifts and money to my friends and love-ones. So nice of you to give embotido to your neighbors. Wish i was one of them because i love embotido very much. ha ha.. Have a nice Christmas my friend.