Another Recreational Activity

1 / 24 / 12

.. for the little boy that is! We will be going to dear son’s kinder-1 Educational Trip tomorrow. As always, he can’t contain his excitement when I let him take a peek of what we’ll be seeing in one of the places to be visited. There will be only four places on the list and all of them are just within the Metro Manila, which I think is enough for us to enjoy each place unlike before that we had to go far wherein travel time alone is already quite tiring.

I will be taking a leave from work to accompany DS. I need to prepare all these things early tonight for tomorrow’s activity.

First aid kit ( band-aid, Betadine, white flower, etc.)
Extra clothes (Shirt, short/ pants, underwear)
Extra towel
Travel medicines
Digicam
Extra batteries
Snacks
Pocket money

Will be back with lots of photos and stories to share here! 🙂

Hats Off!

1 / 23 / 12

Having a long weekend is a chance for me to do some general cleaning of the house. First thing I did last Saturday was to clean the closet. I saw tons of caps from DH’s side of closet. He is fond of caps that it turned out a hobby to collect different kinds of them.

Most are gifts from our relatives abroad and some are bought online. Among his favorite are those jersey cap from his favorite basketball team. He’s thinking of getting an added set of collection and wants personalized hats this time, being able to wear and put up his own design and style. Cool!

Travelling With Bike

1 / 22 / 12

DH is a bike lover. He uses it to send DS to school everyday. A great way to save up from transportation fee, environment friendly and a good form of exercise for him. He would take it anywhere he would go, even if it means going to far places :D.

So his brother bought him a suv bike rack that he can use when we go to the province for quick getaway trip next month. Now lugging his bike to the car won’t be a problem anymore it with the new and secured rack for his baby.

Friday Fill-Ins

1 / 21 / 12

1. When I looked out the window this morning I saw some busy neighbors off to work.
2. Some things doesn’t make sense to me.
3. Remind me about the deadline.
4. Shopping is something I love to do!
5. TP is always at the list of our to buy every week.
6. I cleaned the refrigerator recently and I found some chocolates hidden in shelf 😀.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to bonding with family, tomorrow my plans include chores and Sunday, I want to go the the salon for a pedi!

Home Projects For 2012

1 / 15 / 12

We are so looking forward to finish all the project planning we have for our home this year. We were not able to accomplish a lot last year as we are short with the budget. We’re are on a tight budget, so to speak.

We are optimistic that we can deliver with most of the house projects this time. First, we hope to finish the bathroom makeover that has been put on hold for quite sometime. Second, the kid’s room repair. Hopefully, they can already use their room in the middle of the year.

DH has just started on painting the flooring in our terrace here:

Next will be the wall painting. Some fix and repairs are needed inside the house like pipe leaks, ceiling fix. Summer is coming too in a couple of months so we are looking around on a home service center for our air-conditioning unit. A quality and of good service center like AC Service Ft Mill. Buying a new unit is out of our options at this time. We bought our AC a couple of years ago and it has really served its purpose well. It just suddenly work well, cooling takes sometime to take effect. I guess a little bit of cleaning and fix will do the trick.

New Year Updates

1 / 14 / 12

Hello 2012! This is technically my first post for this blog for 2012 🙂 I got a new theme for this blog too, I wanted to change my header’s font color to match the theme, but will try to do it next time. Ahaha! I’ve been busy (what’s new?!) and trying to cope up with offline activities. Not to mention that I am having a hard time managing my “online time” wisely ( FB stalking, online window shopping, browsing gossip sites, etc. LOL) But, I am happy to note that the start of the year is pretty good enough for me, ~~online~~ work wise! I am keeping my fingers crossed that it would stay the same for the rest of the year.

As for my family updates, kids are doing ok and so is the hubby. The little boy will be having their educational field trip later this month. Good thing that the places to be visited are just within the metro. We are also looking forward to DH’s brother arrival later this month too. I guess will be busy going some places again when he arrive.

For this year, we hope to accomplish these things:

passport application (kids and I)
bathroom makeover
travel/ out of town vacation
setting up our very own business

I am praying on God’s guidance on our plans and decision. Kids are growing up really fast and although we are not financially stable, I thank God that we were still able to manage and cope up with expenses. In God’s will, I know things will fall into their proper places.

Looking Back at 2011

12 / 31 / 11

I am going over at my previous posts since January of 2011, trying to recall how things went through for us. I just noticed the decrease in number of my blog entries this year unlike in 2010. It only means that there is a slow down on my online gigs and income. But nevertheless, we were able to manage despite the slow down. It may be hard for us at times, but God provides and never failed to hear my prayers. 🙂

Summing up the highlights and important activities that I had featured in this blog.

Nicco’s Educational Field Trip in January
My birthday in February
Little boy’s Moving Up Day
Gabby’s 7th Birthday in April- I was not able to make an entry of her party details. But get to share some photos through meme entries.
Nicco’s 5th Birthday in May- I feel so sad during that time because we can’t even buy him a birthday cake. But he said he love the fruit salad and fried chicken that Daddy made for him.
Some low times we experienced in June, with DH getting sick and us being broke.
My school kids growing up really fast
DH’s trip to Australia for a month (July) for a vacation and sibling reunion.
DD’s Field Demo-It is canceled in September due to typhoon Quiel and finally pushed through in October. They bagged the first prize with their waka-waka dance performance.
DD’s Educational Field Trip (grade 2) last November.
I had a terrible flu on the first week of December and we were caught again with financial problems. Everything turned out fine in the second and third week and we were able pay all our debts by then. 🙂 Kids had a great time during Christmas and were so happy with all the Christmas gifts that they received.

There were some heartbreaking stories caused by the natural calamities and have taken lives of the many people like Japan earthquake. Here in our country,mosr fellow countrymen had to struggle with typhoons Pedring, Quiel and recently Sendong.

With all of the ups and down that we have experienced this year, we are grateful for the gift of life and for keeping us healthy, safe and away from harm always. I really thank God for his loving grace, blessings and protection that he bestowed on us. To God be the Glory!

Goodbye 2011.. Hello 2012! Hoping for a bright and blessings-filled year ahead of us all!

Kids Christmas Loots

12 / 30 / 11

Finally, I had the chance to do some updates here. Yesterday was the last day at work for 2011. We’ll be going back to the office on January 3 next year. We started this morning doing the general cleaning. Yes, I believe in folks when they say that new year should be welcome with a clean house to sweep away the bad luck of the preceding year and make way for the new luck and opportunities of the coming year 🙂

Let me share with you what made the kids got giddy last Christmas. Here are their Christmas loots.

Cupcakes!

Angry Birds on their Santa hat cupcake toppers

These little cupcake toppers just really made the kids (especially the little boy) happy! They asked me to take lots of pictures and specifically a solo shot of each and everyone. Ahaha! This is their Christmas breakfast. Thanks to Ate Irene for making these wonderful gifts for them. It is indeed their favorite gift 🙂

This market-eco bag contains goodies (cookies, chocolates, biscuits and a bear toy) that DD got from my bil’s office where she went to join in for the employees’ kids Christmas party.

Ang Pao’s

with crispy and new paper bills that kids’ got from their god parents.

Gifts from their Tito Nato (my eldest brother)

Nope, those gift do not contain heated blanket in it, but a Cars brand pair of clothes for the little boy while DD got a cute pink blouse.

Little Pony

Gift of my nanay to Gabby. We went to the mall on Christmas day to treat the kids. We were with my sister’s family together with my mom and niece.

Playing around while waiting for our food at the mall.

More of their Christmas gifts.

Those stripe blouses were mine 🙂 Got it at a really friendly price at SM dept. store.

It was indeed once again a happy and memorable Christmas day for the family. 🙂

A Great Christmas Celebration

12 / 25 / 11

Finally, we had our fast internet connection back. Now you know the reason why the lack of blog updates here for the past weeks, added the holiday rush that we had to meet. I had a lot of catching up to do. But let me first share our Christmas celebration today. We were not able to get up for the Noche Buena as we were already in deep slumber on the eve of the 25th. lol!

DH’s sister gave the kids a yummy cupcakea with Angry Birds topper. This really made their Christmas day! especially the little boy who really love Angry Birds to bits 😀

After greeting and giving gifts to Ate I’s family, we went to my parents place around 10 a.m and had a sumptuous lunch with my side of the family. We waited for Santa (our eldest brother) to arrive and deliver our gifts. lol! Kids got clothes while all of us (siblings) received our cash gift. 🙂 We spent some time to the nearest mall after and kids get to play a lot at the Tom’s world. I bought blouse for myself. Mall were all dressed up for the holiday with lots of Christmas decors and very nice floral arrangements that really made it perfect for picture taking sessions. My mom bought the kids some toys again. So there our Christmas 2011 was all about good food, family and bonding moments. I really thank the good Lord for all the blessings that he had given us.

Holiday Rush

12 / 15 / 11

We’ve been very busy this week. DH is getting sick already as he is the one being pressed with the deadlines for the kid’s school Christmas program. We were able to buy the kid’s gifts for their Christmas exchange gifts. This Friday will be the little girl’s party in the morning, then they will be rushing off to the little boy’s Christmas party program at 2 o’ clock in the afternoon, he will play the role of Shepherd again this time. DH has to get his Shepherd costume this morning. Hope that he’ll be able to get it this time as he’s been going back twice already but he was not able to talk around with the person in charge.

Then, we will be going to City Garden Hotel in Makati at 7 pm to attend DH’s niece 18th birthday celebration. It’s a jam packed Friday for us. Hope that kids won’t be cranky by then since they will be both very busy the entire day. For our company Christmas party, it will be this weekend. We still have to do some last minute shopping. Hope we’ll be able to deliver on all these things.