However celebrations came in the form of lunch and dinner with very close friends. On Friday, I had lunch with 2 of my best friends and the family of one of them, including her husband, kids, and mother. I've become a family friend for her, and it's a really wonderful thing for me, because I'm not really used to "family friends" (in my family, we don't really have any). Her three kids are some of the most loving children I've ever met, and what strikes me the most is her youngest. The older two are very loveable as well, but they are more outgoing and have no problems talking to their mother's friends whom they've met for the first time; but the youngest has always been very shy. I remember in the past year whenever I met him, it would take at least one hour for him to get warmed up to me. Although he has met me several times before, he'd still stay away from me, no matter how many times he's cuddled up with me before. Now (perhaps because he's older and not so shy) he 'knows' me the moment I arrive and without undue hesitation he'd climb into my lap. He even considers me as family and in reply to my protest (in jest) that there's no room in his house for me, he said that there's a room they can open just for me.
Then Christmas eve, another dance kaki whom I haven't met for a while called a few of us to her friend's brand-new restaurant to be opened on Boxing Day for food-tasting. The restaurant called Big Boy, is in USJ Taipan, and the food is excellent. Except for some weird-tasting pizzas. But the dessert was very good - flourless chocolate cake with ice-cream. Yum yum yum.
Oh, we didn't do anything crazy or noisy during the lunch or dinner, so it was still a rather quiet Christmas. But it was definitely not uneventful. I like this type of Christmas. Good food with good company, what's there not to like?
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