The Filipina Mom in Denmark

Goodbye 2008

I thank God for all the blessings my family received this year. I consider every living day a blessing we must cherish and appreciate it. Sometimes things don’t go the way we wanted it to be but maybe for a reason. Don’t let hatred reign your heart forget and live on don’t waste time and energy blaming yourself, your neighbor, your family and your enemies. PEACE

This year will forever etched in my memory. There’s a a lot of things that so memorable for me. For the first time I went back to the Philippines after 6 years and saw my new twin nephews and my Inang (grandmother) before she passed away last November. I also experience my son’s some kind first graduation from the day care to the kindergarten. We also celebrated christmas together with the rest of my family complete at last plus add ons (our husbands and children) for the first time after 28 years although we are sad that my father has been confined last Dec. 26 to wait for head surgery because he has brain tumor. I pray that he will have a successful surgery it just too bad that I and my sister can not be in his side.

Hello 2009

We don’t know what’s in store for us but I wish everybody a

HAPPY NEW YEAR

We say GODT NYTÅR in danish

FELIZ ANIO NUEVO in Spanish

MALIGAYANG BAGONG TAON in Filipino

We will celebrate the New Year In my Aunt Elvira place tomorrow where we will eat a wonderful dinner maybe its a stuffed goose or duck & potatoes as a main course and seafoods or fish usually steamed cod as the first course with white wine.

As far as I can remember I celebrated the New Year’s Eve like any Dane does traditionally good dinner, wine, champagne and having fun with friends and family. Six o’clock in evening everybody is tuned in the television for Queen Margarethe’s Tale and eat dinner around 7 and finished eating around 9. Watch a movie or maybe a Filipino tradition Karaoke then at 11:45 Pm while every year the Danish National DR1 sends the Dinner for One or also known as 90th Birthday well even this is very old it’s still fun to see check it You tube.

When the Copenhagen City Hall clock rings at 12:00 or her we use 24 hr 0.00 we drink champagne and cheers and wish everybody good new year. Not to forget there is a kranskage a marcipan ring cake which you can read from this http://www.odense-marcipan.dk/kob-hos-din-bager/kransekagens-historie.html and by translating it forgoogle it turns out the horn is Cornucopia is made of rings and put together to form like horn form and fill it chocolates and confects. The story says it is a symbol of fertility and prosperity. The picture below is baked by my aunt who is educated in the Danish Pastry School.

I wish verybody PEACE & PROSPERITY for the New Year 2009.

CHEERS!!!

Cornucopia Marcipan Cake