A very special greeting from me to everyone because today is Christmas! I wish you are surrounded by your loved ones, full of joy, health and love, I am happy because I have the most important thing life and I am with my family, Thank God for these blessings.

What didn't you want for Christmas

In my country it is common that in schools, jobs and in any social environment there is a dynamic in these dates called secret friend, it consists of giving gifts to people anonymously for several days as candy or small details and at the end a larger gift is delivered and is when you discover who is the person behind the surprise.

When I was little in fifth grade on Christmas day my secret friend gave me a gift that caused laughter among my classmates, to me it caused surprise and disgust, I felt disappointed and disillusioned because like every little girl I imagined something to wear, like costume jewelry, hair ornaments, girl makeup, anything but a "Vase" I remember asking myself what am I supposed to do with a vase, the answer is obvious use it for flowers, but at that moment I just wanted to break the vase on my classmate's head. 😠

I didn't look at how pretty the vase was and felt like I didn't get gifts. When I came home sad about that gift my mom looked at it and tried to change my attitude, she told me it was very nice and useful, with time I started to appreciate it, since I saw it every day in my room, with flowers that decorated my environment, I kept it for years until one day it broke and I felt sad because it was damaged, until that moment I had not realized how important it was for me.

Sometimes life does not give us what we want and dream but what we need, we must learn to appreciate those details that we do not like and look at them with different eyes, that will give us another way to see life.

Are you the Christmas grinch?

Yes, I am and for a few years I have been transforming into this character without knowing it, I do not enjoy the arrival of this season for several reasons, first it is a time when I have to decorate the house alone, take out all the decorations and put the tree, nobody in my family likes to collaborate in that, but if they like to see everything in Christmas atmosphere, then they pressure me to put the decoration, but nobody helps me also I have to assume the costs of these decorations, buy the lights and ornaments.

I have always liked to receive new year with everything organized and clean, then it is a time of extreme cleaning where I end up exhausted and stressed, for me the happiest day is January 7 that I keep all the decoration, this year the house is being painted so do not take anything out and whoever wants to see Christmas decoration to go out to the city center. 😜

I don't like the gaitas which are a type of Venezuelan music, but I do like the aguinaldos which are like Christmas carols, another thing I like is the food both sweet and salty, if it's for the food I would be living in Christmas all year long. Currently, my Christmas is very quiet and so I enjoy it, eating hallacas, ham bread, cream punch with my family that plan that makes me happy.

This is my participation for: [Week 133] Weekend-Engagement concept