Merry Christmas!

First of all, I would like to wish Merry Christmas and lots of happiness to all who read my blog!

Thanks for taking the time and stop by to read it.

This Xmas is a little different then the previous few was for me. Due to my work, the last 4 Xmas I was spending far away from my family, working, somewhere in the mid of the Caribbean Sea, in most case just north of the Dominican Republic, what i really love, but not that time of the year ( and without work).

So, lucky me, this isn't the 5th year in the row working far away, but celebration with my small family. Since Thailand is not a Christian majority country (Buddhism is the main religion) Xmas here is more a shoppers holiday than the real thing. The weather help to reinforce this feeling too; no, it isn't a white Xmas here. However, i tried to make it memorable, for my son especially, of course, after all I wasn't with him the last 4 occasion, and before he was too small to really understand much about it.

We bought a smaller Xmas tree, at least the plastic version of it, and some decorating things and lights to hang on. Being a responsible adult ( sometimes) all was bought around 2 weeks ago. Should you plan next year to do like me, don't. There was not a single day my son wouldn't ask when will we decorate the tree. A few times a day. OK, there is a good in the bad, he could practise math, by deducting current date from 24...

Anyway, we got here, and for much of his happiness, we all decorated our little 3 feet imitation tree together; a few times, as once the lights were on the wrong place, once the garlands, or my son hang too many little boxes and bells to one side, and not much on the other. But being a small tree, even this didn't take so long, not for what i remember from my early years, when i was kid.

After we finished, my son went to bicycle with the friends, and we could bring out his presents from the bottom of the cabinets. You have to know, that most time ( also due that many times I work far away) buying presents used to be a whole family activity, when I am at home, get them to the mall, and buy many things to make up for those missed birthdays, Xmases, etc.

But this time it was different a bit, for my son we bought everything when he was in the kindergarten, so, he didn't suspect a thing. He thought, obviously from his experience, that today we are finished with the tree, and tomorrow I will take them to shop toys, the most important aspect of all events.

There was big surprise, when he came home!! He could not imagined that how we got all that presents for him, kept asking my wife how they came, and was so happy for "all this free toys". I think in a way he believes Santa Claus now, not even for a tiny second suspecting that we bought this toys, and presents. And we leave him there, child mind is best when imagination has free reign. Merry Christmas everyone!