My girls, their xiu xius and Jingle the Elf. How many more years of Christmas magic do we have? They have so much pleasure with their elf, his shenanigans and Santa. Meanwhile mummy is tired from all the elf tricks haha. It’s been a tiring but fun lead up to Christmas, I am very ready for the holidays now.
Gerry dropped by with salmon as gifts. 我了解他的心意，and I am thankful and appreciative but I really haven’t done anything for him that warrants all this. Thank you for thinking of us as always.
And then there’s our Korean friends. Overly generous, polite to a tee, kind to a fault. Their children walk all over their kind parents, I only pray and hope that when they mature they will shower their parents with the love they were given since young. I think they will because surely kind people give birth to kind children ?
I like to think that I am generous to people I love and care about and only frugal towards myself. When I give, I never expect anything in return. But I am no saint, I have to say that it still feels nice when someone buys me coffee after I’ve bought them coffee many times. It’s nice to not be taken for granted and to be appreciated.
So when my friends are overly generous and shower me with gifts, I tell myself that it’s ok to accept the gifts because I know I’ve been a good friend to them too.
My greatest joy this year has been watching my kids learn to play guitar from my ah pa. I pray and hope his love and talent for music can be passed down to his grandkids. My daughters don’t know how lucky they are to have my father as their shifu. This will be a lifelong memory that they and I will cherish for the rest of our lives.
daitaoha 