'PATAWAAAD!'

I am currently watching the green curtains in my bedroom grooving with the cold wind.Christmas is really in the air.We are already done with decorating the Christmas Tree and so with the display of Christmas lights outside the house.But something is still lacking.What is it?Carolers.I still haven't heard the sometimes annoying voices of kids singing 'Jingol bells,jingol bells,jingol all the way.Oh,what fun the restaurant...'. I'm really wondering what happened to the children who caroled every night in our house last year.Did they suddenly grow up into bashful,awkward teenagers?But wait,I can hear the sound of cans being hit by a stick from a distance.And the small,out-of-tune voices of kids.But they seem so distant.Maybe they're not going to carol in our neighborhood tonight.Oh,well,my mother would be relieved.Still,it's so fun to hear them sing 'Thank you,thank you,Ang babarat ninyo,thank you!' when someone shouts at them 'PATAWAAAD!!!'.Just then,I hear the excited footsteps of the children going into our house's direction.But before they can even start their ' Sa may bahay...',our neighbors' dogs bark at them.They are so scared that they hurriedly run away,away from the dogs who seem so aggravated at Christmas carolers.