Wed, rushed to get the remaining presents as we knew we wouldn't have much time to do so. Within 4 hrs, we'd been to Orchard (a short visit to Justina, shopped @ NAC/Wisma & dined in @ FEP), then back to Parco to shop for another 1 hr+. Reached home near 11pm. Still had a couple of things to do before I called it a day. Sewed the crystals on my dress & did my nails (on the same day only managed to do pedi @ Parco during lunch as 3 of my toenails cracked near the base! So had to let the experts handle my problematic toenails). Slept at 2am.
Thurs evening, attended Gerald's wedding & reached home around 11.30pm. How we wished it's on a Fri night instead so we could have more rest. After shower, wrapped some presents for the next day - hubby's gift exchange during the Christmas party & for my colleague.
@ Gerald's wedding dinner
Fri evening, went to Millenia Walk to get some chocolates for the kids before going back to the same hotel (as Gerald's) for our pre-Christmas dinner. As usual, had a great time.
We thought Sat would be a more relaxing day without agenda. Last minute sis suggested lunching together. Only had about an hour after fetching mum from market & before going to Thomson Plaza of which I made use to wrap some presents.. so the whole morning was gone like this. Had a sumptuous dim sum lunch & reached home just in time for our shower set delivery. We’d ordered 1 that comes with a rain shower (yeah!).. there’s promotion in price + free installation.
After taking 2 hours+ to wrap more presents & the kids’ Christmas goodie bags, rushed to Sembawang Shopping Centre & got almost all the ingredients for the next 2 days’ potluck. Then went back to pick mum up for dinner with bro & family @ Vista Point. During lunch with sis & family, we received a call from bro inviting us for dinner (for Zoe’s birthday & 冬至 which’s the previous day). Reached home around 9pm & there went our Sat.
Early morning of Christmas Eve, got the remaining stuff from the market & back home to settle some of the preps… then went to fetch mum from church. Visited daddy before rushing home again. I made my signature fried rice (hubby’s fav) & some yasai tempura for the evening’s Christmas party at Constance’s. It’s fun & we enjoyed a generous spread as every1 tried to bring the tastiest food there. Yummy!
After we'd filled up our stomach, June & I took quite a few pix with different poses to kill time.
Constance's beautiful home.
After the gathering, we sent my inlaws home & again, went to fetch mum from church as she attended the evening’s Christmas gathering. After sending her home, we went to get some cocktails & drinks… also cooked the popiah fillings (decided to prepare this as we bought lotsa Vietnamese rice paper back during our last trip) for tomorrow.
Then it's Christmas Day! After we got up, only had time to settle the rest of food preps (incl. frying the remaining yasai tempura). Spent the day at sis’ place, indulging in lotsa good food. It’s literally food, chats, food, chats & more food! Exchanged presents & before we could unwrap (which’s the tradition), mum urged to go back. She’s totally exhausted. It’s good actually.. it’s already 9pm+ by then & we gotta work the next day.
What a hectic & 100% family-orientated Christmas holidays for us.
A funny crown! Haha!
On the 1st day back to work, we supposed to return home almost immediately after work for an early rest but on both Tue & Wed, we couldn’t resist the post-Christmas sale we saw wherever we went. Also took the chance to buy some nice winter wear. Hehe..
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