Living Mye Life

I’m excited and at the same time feeling the pressure in the office because I will take a leave from work starting tomorrow and will resume work next week, New Year. Though I’m still sleepy and tired I need to work and turn over my work properly. I actually planned to take a leave the whole week but I need to accomplished one important work and hopefully we can pull it though to start a new year with some good news.

Aside from the much anticipated long weekend, I take the opportunity to bring home our account pet cat who’s serving his terms beside our rest room and he never leaves the area when we started to give him foods to eat. He’s been such a good cat that everyone likes him and he becomes our resident pet. But he needs to move out before our boss in compliance department will notice that he’s been there all along when the others was being thrown out and away one by one. I know he will be a good house pet but I’m worried Chase will never accept him because that’s the way of the cats and dogs but I’m hoping he will let Muning the cat to at least stay in front of our door. I endure to ride in the jeepney going home with Nathan’s gifts and a big box with a cat inside in both hands. Munings keeps on scratching the box and he even clawed my finger accidentally and it hurts! But he’s well behaved when I let him out of the box and I hope when I wake up next morning, he’s still there. So, fingers crossed :)

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. You can almost feel the love in the air because we all celebrate the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

As the tradition goes, we went to the market early in the morning to buy all the things I needed for my Christmas menu and that include pork, chicken, fish recipes plus the desserts and most of all the gifts to our love ones. I never mind that I almost stayed most of the time cooking in the kitchen, just looking at them makes me want to cook more. Nathan now learns to walk and he walks all over the house and making us happy with his laugh and dance and he sometimes sing. My brother’s twins were here to celebrate Christmas with us before my sister will bring them back to their province to celebrate New Year in their mother’s family.

Instead of the yearly family games, I just put a red Chinese envelop with a P100 peso bill in it and hang it in our Christmas tree. I put their names on a small box and let my nephew draw 5 lucky winners. We top the morning with the gift giving. I went to sleep at 4am in the morning feeling contented and happy.

Happy Birthday, Papa Jesus and Merry Christmas, blogging friends!

cheers!!

my kids :)

our Christmas feast

It was a blast and I am so happy to be with them again after so many months. We talked a lot about anything and everything, we exchange gifts, we ate lunch at Gerry’s Grill in Glorietta 5 in Makati and we are still full when we went to Starbucks and a friend bought different kinds of cakes for dessert, her treat for not bringing gifts for us.J We then proceed to other place to meet another friend before we called it a day and I went to Greenbelt church to meet hubby and baby Nathan. I still want to see them again, someday.

I hesitated at first to agree when hubby said he has this plan of going to his father’s province to visit the cemetery of his late aunt.  It her birthday tomorrow and he keeps on saying about it over and over again as if asking my approval.  He owes a lot to his late Aunt who’s the older sister of his father.  He is her favorite among her nieces and nephews and she believes on what my hubby and she’s been his silent supporter all though out.  I cannot take the gratitude and respect my hubby wants to give to his aunt by saying no to his plan.  So with his new car and with baby Nathan in tow, we will push through with the earlier plans and we’ll all go to Pampanga as early as 530am because his plate number ends with the number coding scheme that falls on Friday so we have to leave the metro road before 7am or else a violation will be serve.

I think my eldest sister, my Mom and his Mom will come too and it will be their first long road trip after more than a year.  I already inform my superior that I will be on leave tomorrow and I hope I still have enough vacation leave to use next month.

My hubby and my sister had one thing in common, they both like cars.  Sometimes they will check on some sites for some latest models and prices.  They even bought magazine just to look on some gorgeous featured cars and dream that one day they will have their own too.  I can only smile on their comparisons between cars and other stuffs and they even plan to buy one someday.

But I think my hubby’s wish will now come true when their company decided to give him a car after he was promoted last month.  He happily alerted us the good news and was very excited about it.  They check on some auto blog just to compare models and they can’t seem to get over with the good news.

It’s Friday again and yes, the date is 11.11.11.  I’ve read on some news that most of the couple got married today because of this extraordinary date.  But most of us can’t notice the date until you’ve realize that it was indeed rare. But the majority  even bother unless something unusual happens.

I just finished decorating our living room for Christmas and I need few more things to buy for the wall decors and this weekend will be one of the busiest weekends for us.  Nathan will have his 2^nd pneumo vaccine tomorrow and we will attend the birthday dinner party of my godchild.  On Sunday, we’ll go to church at Greenbelt and of course, stroll around the area. Hubby wanted me to list down the names  of our godchildren, family and relatives so we won’t me missing someone on the gift giving day.  So I guess I have to start buying gifts as early as today though I already bought few last month.

I heard some not so nice news from my family but I needed to stay on focus.  I lay it all down to God so He’ll give me strength to be strong and tough and look on the brighter and positive side of life.  I have all the reasons to be thankful to Him.

Happy Weekend, blogging friends! ♥

My husband has this new way of relaxing while spending time with us and just tired to go out and to stroll around the mall.  He loves to watch movies online and sometimes downloading his favorite TV series.  When at mall, he doesn’t forget to buy his favorite movies on a local video shop and watched it again at home.

But it really bothers him that some online streaming has this tendency to buffer most of the time and eventually stop in the middle of the drama or action movies.  So I told him to check on some site that offers unlimited streaming so he can watch all his favorite movies all the time.  Just to make sure before subscribing, he can take advantage on netflix free trial offer so he can test their offers without paying.

From there he will experience unlimited access on all movies available online.  That excites him the most and he said he will try to check on the site.  We both love to watch movies and I’m most comfortable watching it at home together with our baby Nathan and prepared home made snacks and do other things unlike when you’re in a movie theater.  We can’t wait to watch another movie again.

It’s Friday again and our company just announced that our 13^th month salary will be credited to our account today.  I can say that it is such a blessing because I needed to buy new Christmas decorations.  I checked on our old decors and I told hubby it’s been years that were still using some of them and he said maybe we can change the color motif to red.  But the problem is most of our Christmas decors are green even the Santa’s socks and wall decors.  I don’t have to throw it away because it’s a waste of money but I have to be more creative so I can still use them.

I was worried on our Christmas tree. Nathan will surely give me a big fight so he can pull the decorations off the tree.  He can now walk with balance around the house and I will have to think wisely so he will have no chance to get near the tree. My in-law suggest not to assemble the tree but our living room brightens just by looking at it so we must plan where to place it out of Nathan’s reach and for his own safety too. 

We will have another long weekend and I can’t wait to play and have fun with our baby.

Happy Weekend, blogging friends! 

My cousin was so ecstatic when she called us last night that her dad gave her a car as a graduation gift.  She said her parents are so proud that she graduated with honors and she joke about giving her a prize and when asked about it, she replied that she wanted a car this time.  And true to their promise, they gave the key to her brand new car when she came home from her friend house just the other day.

Now, only thing she needed to do is to have her driver’s license.  And she needed to pass all the requirements so she can ride her car any where she wanted to go.  To be able to get her drivers license, she needed to pass her driving written test.  I told her to choose the easiest way because she’s so eager to drive around and she already planned their road trip across the states.  I’m so happy for her, having your own car is a dream come true to every body.  But she got it because she deserves it for studying hard and now it paid off. 

I thanked our family, relatives, officemates, best friends, friends and class mates for taking time to be with Nathan that day.  I’m quite worried that we will start the party late because of traffic and we have a 4-day long vacation.  But my reminders paid off, they came minutes before the party time and the kids enjoyed the games, even the oldies participated.

Nate’s birthday cake was a stand out and everyone enjoyed the cup cakes and candies and Nate loves all the gifts. Thank God for making Nate’s celebration a success, I wish You continue blessing him with good health and happy years ahead. 

Few days more and Nathan will turn one year old. We've been preparing his party for weeks now and I hope everything will turn out right. It will be an angry bird’s party and it will spell F-U-N! I’m also thinking of long vacation next week because of All Saints and Souls Day and just imagining a long day with my family makes me dream that every week should have a legal holiday (ha-ha!) it will be great and wonderful, right?

I still have few more things to buy so my hubby can settle to our games prizes and souvenirs because he believes that the more the merrier. So to pacify him and just to move on with other important things to do, I will go back to shop with angry birds items.

But above all, hubby and I are so excited for Nate’s big day. Looking at him today, I never thought he’s grown up now and we can always play with him, go out in the mall with him, buy things for him and everything about him. I told hubby I want to go to places with Nathan and appreciate all the good things we can give him while we can. God is good all the times.