Long Weekend

8 / 25 / 13

We are currently on a vacation mode until tomorrow, Monday (August 26) in Lieu of the National Heroes Day Holiday. Yesterday, I was able to enjoy laundry-ing our clothes when Mr. Sun finally showed up brightly until late afternoon.

But it rained hard again last night and I thought of another horrible flood, just like what happened last week that led to suspension of classes due to monsoon rain enhanced by Typhoon Maring for about 3 days.

A 4 days total of no classes which includes the Ninoy Aquino Day last Wednesday (August 21). Classes resumed last Friday in our place, Tuesday next week for other areas in the Metro.

The little boy got a terrible colds last Wednesday, he was stuck on the bed the whole day. We made him this:

Fresh Dalandan

Dalandan Water!

Aside from cough and colds medications, this really worked well for him. He is up and active the very next day and were able to go to class last Friday! 🙂

Hooray for a sun shiny Sunday morning today! continuous rain makes me really feel gloomy. I hope it goes for the rest of the day and until next week as I am really looking forward to a meet up with blogger friends.

August 19: Classes Suspended In All levels in Metro Manila

8 / 19 / 13

It was a rainy weekend and yesterday afternoon, August 18 around 4 p.m it was already raining hard. Metro Manila mayors started to suspend classes early last night. As of this moment, the office of the President have issued work suspension in government offices.

I did sent the boss an early text message of my leave of absence of work for today. I opted to stay at home for safety and peace of mind for DH, since most areas on my way to work is flooded and there are lots of road construction here in our place. I learned my lesson the hard way last year when I did brave the almost waist deep flood on my way to work only to get sick after.

For now, we’re closely monitoring the news and weather updates. DH woke every now and then last night due to non stop rain to check downstairs. The usual, we were flooded inside the house. :(

I hope things gets better soon and since we’re stuck inside the house, kids were getting bored. Here’s what they did to keep themselves busy.

PlayDoh Crafting

Computer Games

Goofing around!

… and here’s what DH prepared for our breakfast! Mine’s one hotdog sandwich and a longsilog and black coffee! 🙂

Still got a lot of cleaning up and ironing to do’s for today, and an online task to finish this afternoon. Stay safe and dry everyone!

Aloha Hawaii!

8 / 12 / 13

Here’s what I got as an addition to our growing keychains collection…

Souvenirs from Hawaii (Hawaii Island Shirt and Keychains)

Ate Irma sent us a box of goodies over last week, it includes presents from their recent trip to Hawaii late last July. The usual, we got packed treats, shirts, sweets, kid’s vitamins and DH’s medical supplies.

(Blackmores Macu-Vision and sugar balance, Centrum for Adults and Kids, Nature’s own fish oil supplement, Cenovis garlic supplement, Accu-Check Performa Glucose test strips)

What are the kids up to over the long weekend?

Cartoon marathon and a messy toys around the room! Been hearing non stop the minions song from the little boy too.. I’ve had so much from this. I don’t really know how many times they’ve watched this last weekend. Ahaha!

Pamper “Me” Time

8 / 5 / 13

I thought I’ll be able to catch a lot on sleep over the weekend, but I am wrong. Wrong in positive way that is! Yesterday (Sunday) morning, Instead of of spending long hours in bed, I was out in a salon for a much needed pamper “me” time. 🙂 I had a haircut, a mani-pedicure and foot spa session plus an eyebrow threading.

Then off we went mall hopping (Robinson’s Pioneer – SM Megamall) in the afternoon to buy myself a sandals and some stuffs for the bathroom. I got sandals from Le Donne , got for about $15 and he seem The kids were with us and good thing they didn’t complain with the long walks that we had. Well, they actually recharged their energy as we went to Jollibee for merienda.

Went home around 6 pm and wasn’t able to catch up on blogging. I am so looking forward to having a blog blast over the long weekend. Yep, long weekend in lieu on the End of Ramadan.

*crossing fingers that I’ll be able to deliver by then.

Grateful First Friday of August!

8 / 2 / 13

We’re now on the eight month of 2013, time flies! Soon enough, it’ll be Christmas. Yay! 🙂 The first few months of this year was quite hard for us financially- debts, bills to pay, household expenses, kids tuition fee and many more! The thing is, our source of income is not enough to fund all of these things, what added to our problem is that our source of funds- my online job that is! wasn’t quite doing well at the same time.:(

We were really scared and really had to struggle to make ends meet. It was really hard to keep one’s spirit high in times of troubles right?! I’ve had bouts of depression then, good thing people around me are kind enough to understand what I am going through. Our family- DH and the kids ,whom we’ve had drawn strength from each other. We managed to get through hard moments. Laugh and cry around together and other things that made us stronger as a family 🙂

Good health is one thing that we are most thankful for. I really think it’s a balance, God won’t really keep us from burdens that we can’t bear. I just couldn’t think on how to survive *knock on wood , if anybody gets sick and we really don’t have money to pay for medical expenses.

SMALL LITTLE THINGS ARE BIG. simple things makes me feel grateful despite the problems and I think that is what matters most. To keep the faith and just move on, surrendering everything to God and bit by bit, things will settle and you’ll get by. Just what’s happening right now, things are getting well. It may not be that big, but enough to keep us in our comfort and peace of mind!

MIA

6 / 19 / 13

… again…

Time again, I’ve been caught up with a lot of stressful things offline. Things have been disappointing and that I really don’t know what to do anymore :(. But slowly, things are now turning better, some things are fixed. If there’s one thing that I realized in this kind of situation, the only help that you can get is from GOD and yourself.

People will turn their back in you in those moments that you needed them. You will be left alone to face the battle. So it’s between HIM and you. I am just so glad that HE sent good and wonderful people to aid us in despair.

So I am moving on, learned my lesson. Keeping the faith still!

Somewhere, somehow, all these things shall pass. I can’t wait to see the rainbow after this hard rain on us!

Laid Back Weekend

5 / 27 / 13

I didn’t do much this weekend, except for attending the little boy’s summer enrichment program culminating day (photos and stories to follow in upcoming posts :))last Saturday. Yesterday, we did a little grocery shopping and bought some of the kids’ school things in the afternoon. I spent most the time in cleaning, laundry-ing and sleeping in between. Haha!

I love the weather over the weekend, I think summer is starting to bid goodbye as there are now rains in the evening (but please no flood shows!). Time to slow down with the AC use too, our electricity bill has been shooting up crazy!

We are so looking forward to the opening of classes in two weeks time, although we are not that financially ready for the school things expenses and tuition fees. I am still praying and hoping that we’ll be able to deliver. After all, I know that God provides! He has this way of showing me the right things at his own perfect timing. Miracles do happen when you least expect it right?! Right! 🙂

Happy Mom’s Day!

5 / 17 / 13

Yes, I am that way behind in greeting fabulous moms out there. Haha! As always, I am caught up with some things offline, so the reason for the lack of updates here. You know, I just don’t feel writing when I feel low for I might regret all the things that I might say later on. I should have saved the space for more positive things to say instead of you reading some sad stories here. 🙂

As for Mother’s Day celebration last Sunday, we just stay home (again). I did the my weekend routine, laundry, cleaning and catching up on sleep… But, we had a great Caldereta for our lunch! Recipe taken from the black book ( special handwritten recipes from Ian’s late mom) The Caldereta should have beer as one of the ingredients but since there was liquor ban, it was slashed off from the list. Hahaha!

Wondering how it looked like? I really mean to take a snap of it but kids were too hungry that they couldn’t wait for any photo op to take place anymore. LOL!

Only this yummy Mango Cake from Red Ribbon as their Mother’s Day gift to me.

The next day Monday, Ian and I went early around 7 am to the polling precint to cast our votes. We were done in less than 10 minutes!

For my senator bets, I wasn’t able to fill up the 12 slots. Out of the 9 candidates, only 7 of them made it to the senate. 🙂 For locals, I voted for my same old bets.

I still got some catching up to do, save that for another post!

Thankful and Grateful

5 / 5 / 13

We woke up early today to attend and hear mass for the First Sunday of the month (May). All the May celebrants are asked to go near the altar to get blessings and well wishes before the mass ends. Since it is the birthday month of Nicco, he got blessed and told me “ binasa ako ng tubig” ng pari. Haha!

We had Arroz Caldo with Tofu for breakfast. The weather still is scorching hot as the previous days, so I am really taking advantage to finish all of my writing task while the a/c is on! because I can’t really sit in front of the computer working for a long period of time with only the electric fan on. I am so looking forward for the hot weather to end soon.

I am also thankful and grateful that we were able to surpass another challenge. God really provides! Now that both of the kids will be going to the same school and that would mean more expenses. Ian and I were looking for other opportunities where we could earn more.

Since my salary from my regular day job and online gig are not enough, we are thinking of venturing into a small business. We are praying for God’s guidance on this. I might be resigning to help him around (in which I really don’t mind) or I might look for another job that doesn’t really eat up most of my time for travel alone. Or much better if I can work from home.

For now, I just let things flow. God willing, things will fall into proper places.

Holding on and Keeping the Faith will help us go through in all these things.

First of May Happenings

5 / 1 / 13

The month of April is a roller coaster ride for me, I don’t really know how I am able to cope up with all the turn of events. I just feel like going with the flow, closed my eyes and felt the rush of things around me.

My thoughts were filled with fear and doubts that I am close to giving up, I am so thankful that people around me were kind enough to understand what I am going through.

Last April 9 my father passed away and I came to realized how short life is, you just a see person one time and in a snap of time, he’s gone. Only memories are there to remember, and we’re all thankful that it was a happy and full of love.

Catching up is what I do now.

For the first of May, it’s all about LIFE.

Gia (Ian’s niece) just gave birth to Xie wei, a healthy baby boy as cute as his older borther Xian :)
Birthday of Kuya Ivan (Ian’s older brother)
Holiday (Labor Day) means no office work today! Yey! haha!
Today is the feast day of St. Joseph, The worker and it’s our town’s fiesta!

Work wise, I got some writing to-do’s and I am happy =) I am crossing my fingers that there’s more to come. I am saving up for the kid’s tuition fee and their other educational expenses.

So, Hello May! Please be good to us! 😉