McDreamer: Christmas Eve

It is our family tradition to hold a Christmas party for all our employees and the people in our household... We do it usually on the 21st or the 22nd of December. After the party, many of them are spending Christmas with their families and having their annual vacation since our small family business don't have regular operations during the Christmas season...

That Christmas party serves as the company's biggest party. All staff and employees are served and treated as Kings and Queens... We believe that it is one way of paying them for their hard work during the year... As owners, we organize the party, create games, decorate the venue, host the party, provide entertainment, etc, etc...

That is why we get so tired and exhausted, that after the party, we can't even have a "traditional Filipino Noche Buena" - or a Christmas Eve Dinner...

I asked some of my friends and relatives what do they usually eat, how do they spend their Christmas Eve... And many of them have the same answers... Sleep until 12 midnight, then, eat ham and cheese, then, open gifts, then, sleep again.... That's it??? Well I guess the sleeping thing takes the momentum away, makes them feel drowsy and feel like shouting - let's get it over with and go back to sleep!

One friend I know loves to cook, and she does serve lots and lots of entrees during Christmas Eve... Her neighbors usually visits her and eats with them every night...

For us, since we don't have visitors, and we just had our ultimate Christmas Party, our Christmas Eve turns out to be really boring... Yearly... We can't even wait until 12 midnight to open our gifts...

But this time, it was quite unusual... We had fun... We stayed up until 2am... Why??? Because we had Ham, Cheese, Bread, Grapes, Hot cocoa, Wine, Games (Electronic Guesstures), and the best thing we did - Pictorial!!!

Look how crazy we were...

Just the four of us... Peegee, Marnie, Paolo, and I