Christmas Three

Thirty-three (33) days to Christmas! Our tree is nine years old - 3 plus 3 plus 3 - but it's only 8 ft tall; I wish it was a nine-footer. It's been good to us, so I shouldn't complain.

- JULLIE Y. DAZA

We're quite sentimental about our tree, even if the three of us at home are no longer kids. We love our tree, and every year we find something special to add to it - an ornament that could be quirky, funny, or just plain lovely. Over the last nine years, stores and shops have come and gone, but I haven't found one with the type and class of merchandise to rival or even equal what we already have. Which is unfair, because most of our ornaments came from a local factory that no longer manufactures made-in-PH stuff; the owner has shifted to importing Swiss cosmetics for ladi