My Christmas tree this year.
@arunima25 (85649)
Bangalore, India
December 25, 2023 4:36am CST
Good afternoon from this side of the planet. 
It's cold day here( cold breeze is there) and most part of the day has been cloudy. The Sun peeps out of the cloud from time to time.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. 
I hope that you all are having a good time this Holiday with your friends and family.
My elder daughter has left today morning. We wished to have her for Christmas and New year. But then not all happens as we wish.
Being Hindu, we don't celebrate Christmas. But then the best part of staying in a country like India is that there is always celebration mood and people do celebrate festivals from other faiths too. So, this tradition of putting up the tree was started by my elder daughter when she was three. She wanted a tree similar to her Catholic friend. . And since then we have kept the tradition alive.
Yesterday, we were awake till late night enjoying Christmas Carol ( my elder one played guitar and younger one sang), eating plum cakes and some good food. This was all last minute celebration before she left at 3AM in the morning.
OceanTiarra@RebeccasFarm wanted to have a look at my Christmas tree this year. So, I post this picture of our tree lighted up with decorations last night
Hope that all is going well in your corner. Stay Happy and Healthy. Enjoy the festival 
It's cold day here( cold breeze is there) and most part of the day has been cloudy. The Sun peeps out of the cloud from time to time.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. I hope that you all are having a good time this Holiday with your friends and family.
My elder daughter has left today morning. We wished to have her for Christmas and New year. But then not all happens as we wish.
Being Hindu, we don't celebrate Christmas. But then the best part of staying in a country like India is that there is always celebration mood and people do celebrate festivals from other faiths too. So, this tradition of putting up the tree was started by my elder daughter when she was three. She wanted a tree similar to her Catholic friend. . And since then we have kept the tradition alive.
Yesterday, we were awake till late night enjoying Christmas Carol ( my elder one played guitar and younger one sang), eating plum cakes and some good food. This was all last minute celebration before she left at 3AM in the morning.
OceanTiarra@RebeccasFarm wanted to have a look at my Christmas tree this year. So, I post this picture of our tree lighted up with decorations last night
Hope that all is going well in your corner. Stay Happy and Healthy. Enjoy the festival 11 people like this
12 responses
@RebeccasFarm (86828)
• United States
25 Dec
Oh tis lovely, I always love your Christmas tree Arunima..thanks so much for sharing it with me here.
Happy Christmas today to you and yours anyway haha
We are not having anything special today this year, it is okay maybe next year.
We will watch movies today.
Its only 13F and getting colder.2 people like this
@RebeccasFarm (86828)
• United States
26 Dec
@arunima25 I hope you got a good movie to watch?
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
26 Dec
@RebeccasFarm Yes, we did. We watched The Vaccine War. It's based on true story.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
25 Dec
Thank you Rebecca. My daughters love to decorate the tree. They will get into silly fights and arguments, giggle and bond over while decorating the tree.
Merry Christmas. Even a quiet Christmas is a nice plan. Enjoy your movie. Even I am waiting for my husband to finish his stuff( he is busy with some online video teaching financial things) so that we can watch a movie together.
Today was cloudy for most part of the day and a bit cold. I think that that's the typical Christmas weather here.
. Enjoy your movie. Even I am waiting for my husband to finish his stuff( he is busy with some online video teaching financial things) so that we can watch a movie together.
Today was cloudy for most part of the day and a bit cold. I think that that's the typical Christmas weather here.2 people like this
@ptrikha_2 (45563)
• India
25 Dec
Wow that's a wonderful Tree !
We also keep Christmas trees but this time we have not got any new ones.
There are already a lot of other expenses!
We had a Christmas Eve of Tea, Plum cake and a few more things.
And today was Coffee plus Cookie and Bread time.
Back to normal things from tomorrow.
I can understand that you would be missing your Elder daughter today but well, as you said that we cannot control everything.
Here it is 22 to 24 C in the Day time but it gets cold in the night to around 9 to 11 C.
(It had dipped to around 4 - 5 C a few days back).
Have a great time ahead !
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@ptrikha_2 (45563)
• India
26 Dec
@arunima25
Yes now a few of my leaves will begin.
One was in tbe verge of getting cancelled or postponed but I managed to avoid that.
But yes, a few things have not been so cordial but sometimes we cannot help !
Even I have so many pending personal works plis a few plans for some new personal initiatives.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
26 Dec
Your Christmas eve sounds good with tea and plum cake. I have not bought any new tree. This tree is almost 10 years old when we moved back to India. I have been using the same each year and it's good to go for more years. It's the same decorations too. We have changed the light few years back when the earlier one stopped working.
My elder daughter reached her hostel last evening and was happy to see her friends. They want their friends more than home and parents at this age
. They celebrated Christmas in their hostel with cake cutting
Have you not taken any break? My husband had few leaves pending and he has clubbed them together to take a week long break. As such his work load is less during this time. He is using the holidays to rest and finish few personal stuffs. So, we still find him sitting with his laptop for few hours each day. His financial planning, medical checkup and few things around the house are on hid holiday agenda
. They celebrated Christmas in their hostel with cake cutting
Have you not taken any break? My husband had few leaves pending and he has clubbed them together to take a week long break. As such his work load is less during this time. He is using the holidays to rest and finish few personal stuffs. So, we still find him sitting with his laptop for few hours each day. His financial planning, medical checkup and few things around the house are on hid holiday agenda2 people like this
@allknowing (130154)
• India
25 Dec
You had a better Christmas day than I have had After the party I just wanted to do nothing.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
26 Dec
Oh! You must have been tired after so much of preparation and fun. You have spent months planning for this party. Now, you should relax for a while.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
25 Dec
Thank you. I am going to rest for the rest of the evening. I am quite tired with all the cooking and celebrations yesterday. I made some home snacks and packed it for my elder daughter to carry it to her college. My younger one will go with her friends to the Christmas fair downstairs.
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@LindaOHio (157337)
• United States
25 Dec
That's a very pretty tree. Wishing you a day full of blessings!
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
25 Dec
Thank you. Wishing you and your loved ones Merry Christmas.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
25 Dec
Thank you. Glad that you liked it.
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
27 Dec
We bought it. The decorations were bought along with the Christmas tree. It was more than a decade back. And they are kept safely after the festival and come out every year..
We all love jubilant mood and celebrations. So, having any reason to celebrate is welcome in our family
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We all love jubilant mood and celebrations. So, having any reason to celebrate is welcome in our family 1 person likes this
@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
26 Dec
Thank you Judy. It's going to adorn the corner till first week of January. Then we plan to pack it till next year.
@Marilynda1225 (79974)
• United States
4 Jan
Your Christmas tree is so pretty all decorated and lit. I haven't' been here for awhile since I got sick but I'm back and wishing all my friends a very Happy New Year.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
5 Jan
Thank you so much. Happy that you liked the tree. It's still there. We plan to put it back this weekend or next weekend .
Sorry that you were sick. I hope that you are all okay now. Wishing you and your loved ones a healthy and happy 2024
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Sorry that you were sick. I hope that you are all okay now. Wishing you and your loved ones a healthy and happy 2024 
@DianneN (247219)
• United States
26 Dec
@arunima25 So true and it’s so exciting to see the pretty decorations. I put up fairy lights on our lanai, but they can stay up beyond the holidays and up to the day we leave Florida.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
26 Dec
Thank you Dianne. Thanks for dropping by on my post. Well, decorations bring the festival spirit. Merry Christmas!
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
27 Dec
@DianneN Even we let the lights stay from a week before Diwali to end of January or even more. We switch them on whenever we feel like. Else the electricity bill would be a bomb.
. Else the electricity bill would be a bomb.1 person likes this
@mildredtabitha (16079)
• Nairobi, Kenya
9 Jan
Your Christmas tree is beautiful.
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@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
10 Jan
Thank you. It's still there. We planned to put it back last weekend but we couldn't. We have to do it this weekend and I hope that we do it
It's still there. We planned to put it back last weekend but we couldn't. We have to do it this weekend and I hope that we do it1 person likes this
@arunima25 (85649)
• Bangalore, India
2 Jan
Good to know that you had a great time with your family.. India is a land of festivals. We have some or the other celebrations going on through out the year.
Happy New Year
. India is a land of festivals. We have some or the other celebrations going on through out the year.
Happy New Year