Now that Halloween is over for most of us, people are gearing up for the big Christmas holiday. For Americans, there's still the upcoming Thanksgiving Day (Nov 25) and many homes put up their Christmas trees right after Thanksgiving. But I'm not American (though my husband is) so I'm gonna put up our white Christmas tree next week. Last year we decided on white 6-foot tree with blue and silver ornaments. It is my husband's family tradition to add special ornaments to the tree every year. Ornaments with special meanings, a travel souvenir or a family present. This way, people look at the tree and there's a special meaning behind every ornament, a memory of where you were.
So this year, we picked out our special 2010 tree ornament from Kauai Macy's to commemorate our last Christmas in Hawaii.
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| Our new chandelier ornament for 2010 |
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| Christmas at Macy's |
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| More ornaments at Macy's |
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| Guess what? cupcakes! wanted to get this but a bit tacky for our tree |
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Posted by May-
Halloween's upon us all. But let me give a short recap, what is Halloween about again? For us Asians, it is about honoring and remembering our loved ones who passed away. Visiting graves, gathering with the whole family and praying for the souls of the past. It is not religious, it has become the tradition. For Westerners, Halloween is all about parties, trick or treating, candies, costumes and decorating homes spooky for children's fun and games. Now that we are in our 30s (and then some), we've come to fully understand the quintessence of holidays: Families.
Happy Halloween, Sisters! - May
This is our first Halloween on Kauai, first time to pick out a pumpkin and first time to carve it to the face that I drew. It was fun, an album-worth memory! I didn't know that a pumpkin was hollow inside and that it is perfectly easy to carve any facial expression on the pumpkin.
our yawning pumpkin
Last year we spent Halloween in Waikiki, Oahu. It was the craziest night in town with everybody dressed in their costumes. If you were caught out in the streets in plain clothes, they'd scream at you. And yes, I was screamed at sereval times (I just landed in Hawaii for crying out loud!).
Kids on Kauai had a display of costumes at the town mall. They were trick-or-treating at all stores on the mall. Imagine how many candies these kids were able to collect today! always fun to see kids in costume. Wanna share my nephews in their Dracula and Skeleton costumes this Halloween (in Korea).
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holidays = time with family. (good equation)
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