welcome 2015 with a sizzling hot air

It’s the new year of 2015. The first think in my mind was probably “Thank God, the first thing we did was not burn a house”.  Ok, back track! Instead of firework this year, my mom thought that it would be nice to light up some lanterns. And since it is our first time, she bought three lanterns. We still got to see fireworks, we got up the balcony and had a 360 view of wonderful fireworks provided by our rich and festive neighbors! After all the fireworks we decided to light up the lanterns already. The first one was a fail because the struggle was real at lighting it up we ended putting a huge hole on the lantern. We still tried to light it up but it went down in flames inn our cemented runway in the garden, so it’s still good but my mom was already worried about the fire hazard it presented. The next lantern we were able to light well but while we were waiting for the hot air to accumulate, the side got accidentally burned. It was a relatively small hole and there was great difficulty for it to fly off. My mom’s worry increased because it was burning very well and it was flying low and she kept on navigating the lantern away from our house, unfortunately the wind was in the direction my mom feared. But still, the lantern was able to rise up, although achingly slow with all out heart near our throat for the possibility of causing a fire in the neighborhood. The last lantern, my mom and my lola were against it already, but we were able to convince them that this time it would be perfect!

And it was.

It was beautiful, our hard work, our baby, growing up in the wind. And I hope that 2015 would be just like that third lantern. Maybe even if at first there was a struggle and we didn’t get to fly the first lantern, we still kept on and on the second try, even if there was a hole in the second lantern, we realized that it would still fly.

And as we would keep on trying on things we would be doing this new year I hope that the third-time’s-the-charm would always work out because I will not be giving up on these things.

Happy New Year! 2015 be good to us <3