Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I hope your day was fun and blessed! Mine certainly was; there is nothing like celebrating Christmas with my seven younger siblings. The reactions of the toddlers when they open a gift is priceless. One of my little sisters, age four, is very animated and exclaims "That's what I've always wanted!" quite often after opening a gift, (even if she doesn't know what it is). It's also quite amusing when my two year old, dinosaur-obsessed brother yells "Roar!" when he opens dinosaur gifts. So many interesting things happen Christmas morning with a fantastically large family.

Speaking of gifts, right now I am writing this blog post on my very own laptop! I have been saving up for one and surprise! "Santa" got me a laptop when a store was having an awesome sale. As soon as I tore the wrapping paper off and I saw the picture of a laptop on the box my eyes widened and I hugged the box, crying "my baby!" My biggest and most loved hobby is writing, particularly fictional story writing. Now that I have a laptop I can write more often. Since I'm still just a teenager there will be strict rules for it, but it still opens so many doors! I am really thankful! 

 

Every year I look forward to Christmas mass, not only because it's mass, but also because I usually have a new and nice outfit to wear. Sometimes it's only a new piece or two, but this year I happened to have a completely new one, which made me very excited. Here are some Christmas outfit inspirations:

 

Shopping for a modest Christmas outfit is usually hard, but this year it wasn't. I found a long, black, lacey skirt and a white scarf at a Maurice's sale, a red sweater at Target, and I already had a nice coat at home. The outfit wasn't a problem... but shoes were a rather hard. However, it was probably my fault. You see, I wanted red shoes. Not just red shoes, but red heels. Wherever I went there were red heels, but every time the heels were way too high. Sadly, small heels are rare. Thankfully, I succeeded in finding a pair of cherry red, small heels at payless. Even better, they were 50% off! I really got lucky and I rode home with a feeling of triumph. I must add that although I was happy with my purchases, the real highlight was spending hours of one-on-one time with my mom. She's so sweet and knows me well enough to recognize when I need to eat, (which is usually when I start stressing out ridiculously).

Before I end this post there is a little apology I must make. Because of all the company we've had and all the preparations for company that we've been doing I have neglected posting on this blog and I'm sorry. I should have posted sooner, but this being the busiest time of year... well, I hope it's understandable why it's taken so long.

May God bless you on this holy Christmas day!

~Mariana