Celebrating CHRISTMAS <3

Hello, Hivers! Before this day ends, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! 🥂

I just wanna share how we spent our Christmas celebration.

This season is the perfect time to catch up with the family.

• Set up the Christmas tree and decorate your home with lights and create DIY decorations for a personal touch.
• Spend time in the kitchen with the family.
• Exchanging gifts and share why you made that specific gift for each family member.
• Play Christmas-themed games.

These kind of celebration will strengthen the bond within the family.

FILIPINO CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS

Every country has its own set of traditions to follow for the Yuletide season, but Filipinos do it best. After all, we celebrate Christmas festivities for a longer period than any other country in the world. With a uniquely lengthy holiday, we’re bound to have more traditions and beliefs than any of our neighboring countries.

1. Starting Christmas in the -ber months
2. Setting up a Belen
3. Adorning buildings and posts with a parol
4. Attending Simbang Gabi
5. Indulging in Christmas food like bibingka and puto bumbong
6. Caroling from house-to-house
7. Attending Misa de Gallo on Christmas Eve
8. Holiday reunions
9. Waking up for Noche Buena
10. Manito-Manita
11. Awaiting Aguinaldo or Pamasko
12. Livestreams of Christmas New Year’s Eve Masses
13. Waking up for Media Noche
14. Ending Christmas in January with the Feast of the Three Kings

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We just had a simple celebration, my Lola (grandmother) and cousins came here to Cebu from Samar to celebrate Christmas. We had a chance to spend time together, my Uncle ordered foods for our Christmas Eve dinner. We shared a meal and drank wine until 12 midnight.

That's all for now, Hivers! See you in the next blog for New Year's Eve.

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This is, @island.girl! See you in my next blog, Hivers! ☺️....

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