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Long Vacation

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 :)



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Merry Christmas 2011!

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!

Aubrey Reine getting a cute doll from hubby's cousin!

cheers!!
my kids :)
our Christmas feast

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Christmas Gifts

Just want to thank to some dear friends for the gifts and wonderful message this Yuletide Season. While I never expected to receive the fruit basket from one of our customer, I’m grateful that they did. My hubby got most of the gifts from friends and colleagues but it was an overwhelming gift of wine and liquors! Well, giving wine is my last option too if I can’t think of anything else to give to a friend.

Another surprise if from hubby’s cousin working in Dubai, she gave me lots of baking utensils and an expensive one too! Really, that is certainly good news this Christmas. She also gave hubby a complete set of Gillette fusion that includes a razor, lotion, after shave and gel. I heartfully thank also to our friends who remember our baby Nathan, I’m quite overwhelmed to know that aside from giving one to me or to my hubby, they now included Nathan in their lists. Thank you, friends and God bless you all!





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Exchage Gifts

Our yearly Christmas exchange gift our office is always as funny as ever. So I’m glad that most of us join this once a year event and everybody participated. The only things that change this year is that we have some raffle draws and I wish there will be more next year. Well, that really depends on our sponsors. But nevertheless, we had a great time because we were so excited who got who and what did they bought according to your wish list. You will have to describe your “baby” before you give your gift and then the baby will describe his/her baby and the laughter continues. Our small time raffle draws was even happier because we were all anticipating that I might get their name from the box. But though I went home empty handed from that raffle draw, I still recall the funny side of it. If only I can wish that we will be like that all the time, happy and relax.




I got a super duper cute teddy bear! :)



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Office Night Out

To make it different this year, most of us decided to celebrate our Christmas party outside from our traditional lunch-snack feast at the office every year. Though I know it will be more costly to do that but it’s totally different now, the ambiance, the camaraderie, trust issues, and it’s never been the same before, people had a change of heart and we tend to group ourselves away from your team and it saddens me that only one person can help us to stay all together don’t do anything about it or don’t bother at all. I lost the interest of asking them if there will be any celebration but our courier’s boss step up and told me to go on with the usual plan. I’m glad that most of us were there in the venue at Shakeys, though some were late because of work but at least they came and I saw the happiness and hesitation on some faces but all well ends well. I genuinely had fun with the team. It felt good just by looking at them having a great time, too. I bought some useful things for the raffle draw this Thursday after our yearly exchange gift. I got my Starbucks planner and I got a free coffee from my seat mate, Mike. Another good night to remember :)






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Together Again

I decided to take a break from watching and getting involved from the PBB show this year. My last memories from a girl teen housemate we supported before ends up in a disaster and I don’t want to have another one again. Hubby asked me if I’m sick knowing that I am not watching my favourite reality show and I told him I have no time since baby Nathan occupies most of my time now.

But my online and fellow supporters before are still very much friends in the cyber world and I’m so glad that despite of what happened we tried to reach with another no matter how busy we can be because of our work and professions. We wanted to see each other before Christmas and we planned countless of dates to meet up but we end up cancelling the dates because of busy schedules and prior commitments. So I told them that no matter how we tried to be together again, we will end up incomplete because December is the busiest month of the year. So we agreed on Dec. 18 date and we went on complete of not



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.


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Chic and Sexy

A chic party is fine but sexy? Well, I have doubts about that. But it’s all in the mind. Actually, I feel sexy though my body says otherwise (ha-ha!). So when our company announced that we will have a chic and sexy party, I can only sigh that I will have to dress up casually in that occasion. I still have problems on my diet and my hubby is not that cooperating because he really loves to eat. I have new colleagues this year and as usual, we have a blast thought it’s a company event. One thing I am so proud of with our team is that we stick together in every event in our company and all is cooperating.






Though we have a popular restaurant as a caterer, they served foods that off in my taste so they don’t deserved a second serving, well that help with my diet. I also received a 5 year loyalty award plus a cash reward and most of us in our team received that award so we can be happier being in the stage though we are 102 recipients that night. We were not that lucky in the raffle draws and only one won the price of dinner for two in Sofitel Hotel which I asked him to sell the voucher to me. After the announcement of major raffle prize, I decided I should go home and I’m lucky that hubby was awake that time and he agreed to pick me up because I have my SLR camera to me and I don’t want to go home alone. I bid goodbye to my colleagues who’s starting to dance with the live band performing on the stage.



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South bound



It was another first for baby Nathan and after a year for us when hubby decided to visit Tagaytay City again. I’m quite excited about it and the fact that you can at least unwind from all the traffic, dust and stress. We both needed that and we went to visit the usual spots in Tagaytay buying foods and souvenirs along the way.



Nathan is a natural traveller, I guess when the time comes that we'll need to go abroad, he will be more delighted than me. He’ll go to sleep and then wakes up without showing any signs of tantrums and he loves to look outside. He really is like hubby who loves to go out if given any chance during weekends.

It rained but thank God it stops before it spoils our day. We had a great time and we love the pineapples, corns, bananas and other fruits we bought along the highway. We also stopped to buy at Bag of Beans store's all time favorite raisins bread. I hope to spend another day in Tagaytay, and I hope I can get a big discount for an overnight stay next year. Fingers crossed.

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College Reunion

I had a great college life, I’m quite popular in our department because I spear headed our society plus I'm quite good in academics. I don’t know how that happened when I am just a typical happy go-lucky high school student before. I even asked my class adviser to transferred me two section below from the star section because I can’t stand the fast pace life of being in top section when my thoughts that time was to enjoy being a teenager.



It’s been so many years since I graduated from college and I don’t see them often except for some few whom I got to see once in a while over dinner or lunch dates. So when someone organized a reunion through Facebook, I thought why not? So we set up the date which was moved from time to time because of unavailability of some but it was all worth it when you see them one by one and entering the door of our room in Music 88. I had a blast, we sing and dance as if we never have our own family and the time was so fast there was so much to talk about our lives after college. So set up another meet ups with one of our college friend but that will happen early next year. But I will look forward to be with them again, I spent 4 challenging years of my life with them before and you couldn’t just put that to waste.



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Collecting Gifts


Nathan is feeling the spirit of Christmas right now, with lots of love around him from his family and gracious gifts from our relatives whenever they dropped by in our house from abroad or those who wants to say hi to him. They said he looks handsome in his face book pictures but he’s more handsome in person. Wow, I can see a future in entertainment world. Ha-ha!


Nathan used to ignore me whenever I call his name for the picture taking but now once I click on my camera he will give me his angelic smiles and even pose for more pictures. So I’m not having a hard time now when I take a picture of his Boracay shirts that my hubby’s cousin gave him the other night after a week stint in that famous beach. After a few more practice steps and he just went to sleep. Aw, such a baby :)

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Fully Booked


First day of December and the weather keeps on changing that makes you want to sleep, sleep and sleep all day. But that won’t happen if you have a one year old cute little boy who’s very active and wants to play all the time when he’s awake. But when a family member want’s to baby sit Nathan, that’s the only time I can have my afternoon nap. Nathan sometimes wake up at 6am and there’s nothing more you can do but to wake up because he will do anything to caught your attention and he’ll make certain sounds until you’re fully awake.


I'll be very busy this month. College get together, my cyber friends meet ups, high school buddies dinner and our family get away are the reasons why I am fully booked on weekends. It may be costly but that’s why December is the busiest month for me. Christmas is fast approaching and I hope all is well in my family. God bless us all :)


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Country Road

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.

 

Come to think of it, I’m feeling excited for tomorrow’s trip.  Oh, well :)

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New Car

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.

 

I told them to try and check auto transport site to know the transport rates if their company wished to have the car ship to them. If it happens, that makes him the luckiest guy to have his new car in less than a year being in their company.  Well, I just cross my fingers and I hope our plan of the road trip out of town this holiday will come true.


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Merry Go Round

We were so amazed on how strong and fearful Nathan is. Sometimes I wonder will he be like that when he grows old but it really depends to us who will be looking and guiding him all though out.  The only thing he won’t try is to walk unattended but I know he can walk already if he wants to.  We sometimes see him stand alone but when he becomes aware that he’ll be walking alone, he’ll sit and just crawl.  




But once you let him walk with you holding his other hand, you’ll be surprised on how strong, fast and almost running he can be. He can ride the horse ride in Tom’s World without holding him and even the merry-go-ride in Mall of Asia.  My sister will just stand beside him just in case but he cling to the handle so strong he can even wave his other hand to us.  We are so proud of him.  He loves going out like his Dad and my Mom and I hope he will not include Toy Kingdom as his favorite place in the mall (ha-ha!). 









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11.11.11

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 2nd 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! ♥

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Unlimited

 

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.


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Green turns Red

It’s Friday again and our company just announced that our 13th 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! 

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Road Trip

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 can’t wait to drive with her when we visit them next year!

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♥ Happy 1st Birthday, Nathan! ♥

It’s Nathan’s special day! And the weeks of preparations and planning paid off, it was such a successful Angry Birds birthday celebration held in Shakey’s.  Lots of children with their parents came to celebrate with us and Nathan was quite curious with what is going on but he eventually went with some of our guests to our surprise, he didn’t even cried or felt uneasy and he welcomes all picture-taking with the others.  We were so proud of him.

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. 

 





Happy Birthday, Carl Nathan! Our baby joy :)










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Excited

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.

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♥ Our 7th Year ♥

This is the day that I said “I do” to the man who means the world to me. Who makes me feel I’m the most beautiful woman in the world (though sometimes I thought he’s annoyingly smiling, or maybe I’m not really buying the idea and called his statement absurd. But I love being with my husband, we argued on some things but that made us know more each day.

I will never say that we are a perfect couple. And everybody might agree on that. We do have some ups and downs in our relationship but you will be surprise on how we managed to overcome those problems. As years passed by, I can truly say that our faith and our love for each other made us stronger.

We celebrate by strolling in Makati malls and I bought him the Sketchers shoes he really wants to buy since last month. He’s been giving me all my wishes and I said it’s time to give one thing he loves most. Nathan came with us in Greenbelt and we went to the church. And that night is unreasonably hot and I am afraid that Nathan will feel uncomfortable and we won’t be able to finish the mass. But he’s really a good baby, he just stays in his stroller and I continuously fanned him to made him feel cooler and the children was blessed with holy water before the mass ended.







But going to greenbelt 5 to eat is another thing. He wants solid food and lack of sleep creeps in and he started to cry (though not that loud) and I said to hubby, time to pack up and we just take out the food in Chilis. Good thing we got a taxi cab right away and the moment we step inside the cab, Nathan feel asleep. We can only smile.

I feel so blessed that we will able to thank God for all the blessings. Having a wonderful and understanding man for 7 years are such a blessing any woman can ever asked for. Happy 7th Wedding Anniversary, honey Jhon and I love you forever.



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Check out

Looking at Nathan now, I thank God that He let my son recovered quickly from the deadly Dengue and pneumonia disease. We have no idea how Nathan was able to get that but one thing I know, we are not safe from the disease carrying mosquito wherever we are. So we need to be very cautious in cleaning our environment and our home and don’t let any flying insects bite your precious child ever again.


Nathan still needs to continuously take his antibiotic for his pneumonia for the next five days and twice a day. After a week, a follow up check up is necessary before he gets his clean bill of health. I don’t want to go on that stressful stage again. My sister can’t even take Nathan’s crying when the doctors were having a hard time putting his IV fluid and she just run away from the room and asked a friend to talk to her on the phone or else she might have a heart attack. The pain and cries of Nathan every time they need to get a blood sample for CBC and platelets count were unbearable. I just wish I can lessen the pain and be the one to take it just to spare him from that dilemma.

But above all, I am so grateful to have my family and close friends beside us during that time. I couldn’t ask for more. I just wish our baby Nathan will never have to be in that situation again.

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