Wo Hoooo.....X'mas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ah Our favorite time of the year! I love everything about Christmas, and I have a great childhood memory about Christmas! The School X'mas party, The Church ( My Church in Jakarta is St Maria de Fatima), the gifts, the song, the spirit, the decorations, the food , the movie, the Santa, the reindeer, the story, just LOVE it!

So when I become a mom, I want my girls to have that same memory towards this special time of the year. This is the perfect time to make family gathering.
My mom is so great! She told me that Santa will come on the Christmas' eve and I must prepare food for the reindeer and Santa, and put it under X'mas tree and the next morning, the gifts for me will be under the tree ( If I am good , that's it). So what my mom told me, reindeer eat those unwanted "wild" grass around her orchid plants, and I must take it all out and put it under the tree for the reindeer! And I do it in no time, because I wanted to make sure the reindeer are happy so the Santa is happy! and I will be happy! And now if I think back, my mom actually just wanted me to help her to clean the plants! HAH! tricky mom, but it worked! LOL

So for Indy and Maya I ask them to put carrots and potatoes under the tree, and a glass of milk for Santa. Indy wrote a letter to Santa , 2 weeks ago and asked me to send to the north pole!
She still not good at writing, but she is quite a creative girl, instead of writing, she draw a girl ( her) and a bike ( what she wants) and draw a big guy with beard ( Santa) and a big letter I LOVE YOU. And she wrote her name Indiana Rocco.
My lil' Maya of course will not write a letter for this X'mas! :-D

This year is special because my DH can be off on Christmas day, this is a very rare occasion for us.

So Indy got her bike! And her dad will teach her how to ride it without the extra wheels. Maya got a doodle board from Santa ( since I "reported" to Santa that Maya draw on my couch and wall).

From Mamma and Papa Indy got Pony from My Pony ( that can be decorated), and Maya got a wooden kitchen set and pots , hopefully they can play together. And a Tiger plush doll from Papa, and reindeer toys for both of them also from Papa.

This is Maya in her new kitchen....

They are so lucky to have many other presents from our friends too! Thanks everyone....
And also thanks to DHL KK Team for the Gingerbread house! and Melissa from Veda blue for the yummy Christmas cake!


Oh and I got 10 pieces of Corning ware from my hubby! I think he wants me to cook more!LOL and he got a Crocs shoes from me!

Merry X'mas and Happy New Year , everyone!

Maya got this ride on from her mak cik.

Indy and Maya after opening all the gifts

We also been invited for a Annual Christmas dinner from the Shangri-la 's chefs club LOL, not really a club, but just happen to be a bunch chefs and only chefs & F & B managers. From the executive chef, F & B director, pastry chef, Resident manager, etc. Only my husband is the "outsider" And we the wives just sit down and wait for the husband to prepare and serve . LOL

The table setting

The cute Elf's shoes napkin


"Us"




Maya the lil' dancer