Merry Christmas!!

 

Food coma! Stuffed to the brimmy brim with turkey, cranberry chutney, beef smoo, potahtoes, brownies, cake, feta salad, chicken curry, baguettes, rice, fruits... oi vey. What fortunate souls we are! A cat nap is imminent then workout! Thank you dear Father, for such an abundance of good things, love, laughter, fellowship and such great weather on your birthday!

reverse timber!

Tree on tree action

Every year we have a color/theme debate and in the end, the red-white-green-&-gold combo wins out. It's just so cheery! My genius father who generally doesn't give a flip about decorating, inexplicably went out and bought a mini gold metal Christmas tree - that's meant to be a stand-alone table piece - to top the tree (a tree on a tree lol) and we were all, 

"Nuh uh, that's never gonna work." But of course it did and it's perfect. Love. Men are such surprising creatures!

               

Finally a day off! brrrr perfect rainy day to finish decorating the tree.

pretty!

Flowers galore at Tanglin Mall ♥

Christmas is upon us!

 

We done got our tree yesterday! It's perfect for our small space and amazingly enough,
was pre-trimmed in all the right places where it rests against the wall. God is good!

Decorations are go!

Buddy: tree trimmer extraordinaire! Elf never gets old.

An incredible thing just happened. My Mom and I (two ladies with laughable upper body strength) were at Ikea trying to figure out how we were gonna get our bigass Christmas tree in a taxi and lug it home without getting all scratched up like the year before, when this very tall and pleasant middle-aged man came up to us and started talking about the trees, how to choose em and how he used to do this all the time back in Canada or somewhere. 

So there I was, frantically side-eying her with alarm bells going off in my head; survival instincts telling me to back away, back away! and all the while thinking - weirdo or genuinely chivalrous/friendly/helpful guy?? Now I guess I may sound paranoid but this is Singapore and generally people don't just go up to strangers and start chatting, so it's not what we're used to. We don't often come across this particular breed here (to be honest) and so were naturally wary. At least up til today. So anyway the very genial Mr. Stanley then offered to help us to pick out a good tree, saw the trunk for us, load it in his van and drive us home. Seriously? Nobody has ever offered us a favor like that just out of the kindness of their hearts... with no ulterior motives... unless they're trueblue Christians of course. 

Now visions of serial killers, bloodied axes and getting ground up in a wood-chipper started dancing around in my head and I was like 'Papa God, I don't want to die today... is this dude for real or should we run screaming 'bloody murder!'? Right then Mr Stanley goes, "You guys look like nice Christian folks so I thought I'd help you out,"... and that confirmed it for me.  (before we left on our 'mission-trimpossible', we'd prayed and asked God to give us strength to get the tree home, and of course He had a better plan!) So anyway, we accepted Mr Stanley's gracious offer and lived to tell the tale! 

Turns out he wasn't a serial killer or some shady guy, just an excellent Christian brother who God sent as an angel in our time of need. Talk about a Christmas miracle! Thank you Papa God and thank you Mr Stanley, wherever you are! Ain't God just the coolest ever? Jehovah Ezer in the house! ♥

Christmas time is here again!

 

Sneaks up on me every single year! 

Time to break out the only movies worth watching in December aka Elf, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Home Alone 1 & 2, Little Women and While You Were Sleeping! The weather has been practically arctic this year (by tropical girl standards). Feeling a definite need to curl up in pajammies with a mug of hot chocolate and get my read on with 'Little House in the Big Woods' and 'The Long Winter'. Hibernation ftw!

Tis the season to be jolly

Fa la la la la!