For my Valedictorian Nephew

Oh well, forgive the stage-auntie talking here, for now let me blog about husband's nephew, John Audrey Eras, who is the Valedictorian at Bulihan National Highschool for SY 2008-2009!


As soon as we reached their house last night, i asked him to wear all his seven medals and beg for a snapshot with husband and me. He is as always, on the go for picture taking! Holding his biggest medal, The Presidential Medal, i was told.


Her proud parents take turn on going up and down the stage in putting all the seven medals. I feel a shiver down my spine, as an auntie-in-law am so proud of knowing him - how can any parent be any more proud?

He is the eldest of the Eras grandchildren. The eldest in Yena's cousins. Loving brother to his siblings. He is just sweeet! His younger cousins call him - ate john john (hope you get what i mean. hahah)

I told husband, i wish our daughter will follow his kuya's path someday! :) Oh my, i will cry tears of joy!!

Singing with my daughter

I introduced music to Yena when she was 5 months old. I Copied every song i got on the internet and saved it on husband's cellphone and mine. So for nightly she would sleep upon hearing the song- Home on the Range. But Barney's is her ultimate favorite. Now that she is 14 months old and whenever she is getting cranky, i will pacify her with a whisper of - 'Let's watch Barney, Baby!'. And yes, that is her magic word and she will be very behave!

One of the song she sings with me now is Barney's - If all the Raindrops! Oh well, if you can only hear her untimely - AH AH AH AH AH between the songs, you have to be ready for an aching tummy right after! :)

If all the raindrops
Were lemondrops and gumdrops
Oh, what a rain that would be!
Standing outside, with my mouth open wide
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
If all the raindrops
Were lemondrops and gumdrops
Oh, what a rain that would be!

If all the snowflakes
Were candy bars and milkshakes
Oh, what a snow that would be!
Standing outside, with my mouth open wide
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
If all the snowflakes
Were candy bars and milkshakes
Oh, what a snow that would be!

If all the sunbeams
Were bubblegum and ice cream
Oh, what a sun that would be!
Standing outside, with my mouth open wide
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
If all the sunbeams
Were bubblegum and ice cream
Oh, what a sun that would be!

If All The Raindrops - Children Songs (Barney)

Quadruplets Award

Thank you very much Ghie for these four lovely awards, this has been the most numbered award i got so far!! :) Thanks a lot dear!

The quadruplet award rule is: Name 7 things/person that you love then pass this on to 7 other bloggers.

1. I love God.
2. I love my family.
3. I love my friends.
4. I love blogging.
5. I love plurking.
6. I love dogs, fishes and birds.
   
7. I love chocolates.

Now am passing this to:
Mareng Umma, Mareng Liz, Madam Beng, Cecille, Dhemz, Madz Pehpot and Rose!

Will you chat with me until we grow old?

I have made some very good friends in the blogosphere, yes dear- that is to my surprise too! I have not been this friendly in my whole life. My husband often ask me who's who on my chat lists and where did i meet them. Oh well i said, that is the power of technology! We blog, we get to know each other, we update each other's lives and then asked for each other's chat addresses and then we're friends! As pure as that!

How can you believe meeting someone in the net and not (yet) in person make your life worth a while. You have them in your good times and not so good times. You miss them and you wish them well every time. Just like good friends do in person! One can never go wrong in making friends just like in the internet - making friends and keeping them is for real! I have been making friends, we know and update each other's lives but we have never seen each other! All of them i really, really and sincerely adore to the bottom of my heart!

So now all i ask them is one question, will you stay in touch with me until we grow old and wrinkled? I wish you all say, I do! It is possible cause we have it right in front of us..

Can we sign up now at Senior Chat? It will be a fun way of updating our lives wherever part of the world we are in. Sooner than we thought we can meet and chat there still, i bet it will be a slower chat this time! Just so we are ready?? Guys? Come on! Who's with me now? :)

Cant Get Over You

My heart has not been beating this fast since i saw you this morning. You are what i have been praying for, an ultimate dream of my lifetime.. I need you so badly not for myself but for the people that matter most to me; for my parents, for my husband, for my daughter and for our finances.

I know i cannot get you so am just writing this down just like what i always say about blogging - write like no one is reading.

But am wishing to high heavens that you are reading this right now, sears. I need you so badly. If i cannot get you please help me get over you!

Sadness Attack 101 - and then God answers them!

Dance like no one is watching,
Sing like no one is listening
and
BLOG like no one is reading!!

Monday, 9:00AM
These are the days my friend, where no matter how hard i fight it, worries arise and sadness seems here to stay.. I really blog to let loose on what is making me heavy. It is my online diary by the way, so forgive me if am not on my jolly self...

1. There is a 90% possibility that i will not have my internet connection at home. Smartbro had twice checked on our new place for a possible signal but there was none. Our place has no good signal and the area looks so congested with internet subscribers already. Final testing for signal will be done today, but it is only 10% chance of having my connection. :( I have been very very upset by this since saturday.

2. For a possible connection at home, my last resort is wireless connection. Which is a very slow process, considering i have applied for it since December 2008, I dont have feedback from Smart Wireless UNTIL NOW! Another sigh. (I really NEED internet connection at home - this is the rationale why i have my nancy laptop!)

3. Bills are lining up. Hubby still unemployed. Big sigh. (To which according to statistics; 180,000 filipinos are already jobless due to recession! So am not the only one worrying big about this, i know - but i cant help it!! huhuh)

4. I kept on thinking about my Kumareng Nancy. I tried calling her but her cellphone could not be reached. I just hope that wherever she is.. she is doing fine. (Just a text from her would comfort me though)

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And then God answers them all in a day..

Monday, 5:00pm

answer to sadness 1, a connection at home seems so impossible. i have to accept the fact that broadband is unfeasible on our new house..

answer to sadness 2, i will just hope for the best on my wireless application... please smart wireless i badly need it! :)

answer to sadness 3, yobib is signing his job offer at a petroleum company at this very minute.. oh my! God is really good! Thank you Lord!!

answer to sadness 4, i saw mareng nancy's drops at entrecard dropping list today. if that is her, it is really really good news! misss her so much! :)

Remembering her First Fall

This was the letter i wrote to my six months old yena the day she fell from our bed. Reading this always brought me to tears. If you want to cry with me, go on reading...

Dearest Yena,

(baby yena, this is what i used to call you that made you always look around and smile. you would always smile just hearing my voice, by this i know that as much as i love you, you love me back no less!)

(i am writing this now preparing for the time you would ask me things, by details id trust my memory on that, i hope you can read it when you're older, and by that time spank me just to get even to your mommy, it's alright baby.. i know i deserve it!)

hi my baby!

as i am writing this, my eyes are shedding tears. even crying a river now will not changed what had happened last night. while i know that my tears are not an excuse for being so carefree less careless mother to you, please accept my deepest apology. what happened last night would be the last, this i assure you.

i cannot believe how it happened so fast. i was so careful all the time, and on that fateful split second i saw you on the floor. i will not forgive myself from hearing your wails so loud that it almost struck my heart and soul. i was so hurt seeing you in pain, i spent the night looking at you, quietly sobbing careful not to wake you up, embracing and smelling you.

your daddy and mamato was so angry at me and to what happened. but little did they know that i was angrier to myself. i am asking for forgiveness from you, to your dad and to your grandma but most of all i beg forgiveness to God for contemplating suicide right after what happened. i know, it will not change things, but i cannot bear to hear you cry and i be better dead than see you in pain..

baby, i love you so much. know that i will never allow anyone to hurt you and i am so idiot cause i was the one who hurt you that much the first time.

please forgive mommy, and please look back or look around again when you hear me call you.. 'baby'

love you 'til my lastest breath,
mommy

Penmanship Tag

Instructions:
1. Write down who tagged you. Pehpot and Donna (thank you so much guyz!!)
2. Answer these:
- your name / username / pseudo
- right-handed or left-handed?
- your favorite letters to write?
- your least favorite letters to write?
Write “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
3. Tag five persons. (Hope its visible to read, am now tagging: Mum Gwen, Ghie, Cecille, Mareng Liz and Enchie)

No Connection yet

I will not be able to blog and blog hop until my internet connection at home is working. Smartbro, my internet connetion, told me it would take 3 to 7 days before they can relocate my connection from my old address to our new address now.

Am so sorry guys for not visiting you over the weekends! I will be dropping on your sites as soon as i have my connection at home.

Thanks for all the warm comments, sweet messages, drops and visits! I have lists of all the 'to do tags' and i will do them sooooon!! :)

Take care everybody! God bless us all..

My lavender colored wall

From the office I hurried home last night, i know it will be very long night for me fixing things in our new 'abode'. So imagine when i reached home and started unpacking clothes and organizing it in our cabinets, fixing things in my little kitchen and playing with Yena in between. I had my hands full but still try to capture this lovely sight i've been wishing to have since i've been dreaming of home - lavender wall!

I specifically told hubby to paint the ceiling white! And here is the finish product. Though hubby told me that this will be our temporary home for the moment until we can afford a 'home' in the future - i am so happy just that i have now what am wishing for!

And i can't wait hubby fixing our family photo on the wall. I manage to put it in the window just so i can capture it! :) And our curtain courtesy of my mother. See? No more walls between my mother and husband now!! Lavender wall seems so lovely all the more!!

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Now am also taking this opportunity to thank my Mareng Nancy! To whom am forever grateful for fulfilling my birthday wish and my greatest dream to have a home. With your great help mare - here is our favorite color on the wall of our new nancy mini house! :)

Miss you! Get well soon!! Muchas Gracias again! Mwah mwah

Bag Tag

I'm so hesitant at first to post photo of my bag and show it on my blog. OMG! That is like showing my soul :) But i cant say No to a tag specially if it comes from my fellow mommy bloggers and i think its fun! So here is my share of that so famous bag tag. Thanks so much Dhemz and Maria for tagging me.. :) Wink

Here is my Php1,200 Donati bag from my husband. I was looking for nice big bag then before my birthday and that was what i got. To tell you frankly he doesn't want to buy a bag worth more than Php500 but i told him it can be used for long time :) This is my only bag now coz i've handed down all my other bags to my cousins. Am taking care of it big time coz husband might not buy me one in the next few years, heheh.

So here's what inside my big bag: Shawl (used it on my nap time at bus and during lunch at office), Umbrella, Red Fan, Michaela Wallet, Organizer, Vicks, Cellphone holder with USB and keys, Kikay Kit, Wet wipes, Ballpens and Pentel pen, Biscuits and Chocolates.

Now here are the rules:
1. Post a picture of whatever bag you are carrying as of late. No, you can't go into your closet and pull out your favorite purse! We want to know what you carried today or the last time you left the house.
2. List how much it cost. And this is not to judge. This is for entertainment purposes only. So spill it. And if there is a story to go along with how you obtained it, we’d love to hear it.
3. Tag some chicks. And link back to this post so people know why the heck you’re showing everyone your bag.

I have to pass this tag to:

Kreez, Beng, Ibyang, Odette, Kikamz, Cecille, Clarissa, Mum Gwen, Sassy Mom, Dee, Chris, and JoyD

Still sick

Cefixime on the 21st of feb, Zithromax since the 5th of march, fever that last for almost 4 days and coughing all night long like an elderly until today, My daughter Yena is still sick and am so worried.

Her pedia, who prescribed all the medication above told us that she will have to be admitted to the hospital when there is no changes in her condition. We suggest to let yena had xray or any lab tests done, but the pedia declined. She told us it would be better to observe until yesterday. But yena is not getting any better. I hate it (no matter how reputable her name on the hospital is) when she prescribes yena dosage of medicines on our every visit without even checking on her thoroughly.

Now, instead of having yena admitted to a hospital. Hubby and i will try to look for another pedia (will be yena's fourth!)

Am about to go to office now but after hearing her cries, am calling it a day with her on her fourth pedia. I just want my daughter to get well. I hope my superiors understand.

Nikology!

Received this tag from Clarissa! And i cant wait doing it.. Yeheey! Thanks Clang for tagging me, now here is my own version of OLOGY :) Yay!

FOOD-OLOGY
1. What is your salad dressing of choice? Kani Salad dressing.
2. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Hap Chan
3. What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of? Lays, Kitkat
4. What are your pizza toppings of choice? Ham, Bacon and Cheese
5. What do you like to put on your toast? Butter

TECHNOLOGY
1. How many television sets are in your house? Two (We are still at my in laws house.)
2. What color cell phone do you have? Black
3. Do you own a laptop? Yes - named NANCY, a birthday gift from Umma
4. Do you own an ps3? No
5. What kind of cellphone do you have? Motorola V3i

BIOLOGY
1. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right-Handed
2. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? My appendix
3. Have you ever had any surgery? Two - Appendicitis and Cesarian Section Operation
4. How much do you weigh? 104 lbs.
5. How tall are you? 5 ' 3''

FAVORITE-OLOGY
1. Favorite season? Summer (when at the beach only!)
2. Favorite holiday? Christmas
3. Favorite day of the week? Sunday
4. Favorite month? November
5. Favorite brand of chocolate? Hersheys (Kisses and Nuggets - both with ALMONDS!)

CURRENT-OLOGY
1. Currently missing someone? Yes, Yena and Hubby at home.
2. Current mood? Sleepy.
3. Currently listening to? Michael Buble
4. Currently watching? Nothing.
5. Currently worrying about? Husband's new job and Yena's fever.

Now am passing this tag to everybody! Have fun!! :)

Ms Friendship Award

I never in my entire life can imagine myself receiving a friendship award. For one, am really aloof person and am very picky with friends. For two, on first impressions you will hate me first before you will love me! (That is according to my hubby! hahah)

Oh Well, I am receiving this from three different people in the blogosphere, now i have to believe that i can be friendly too, hahah. Thanks a lot Amy, Cecille and Tetcha! This award is greatly appreciated. I'm in tears of joy! :)


These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

Now am passing this award to ALL of my lovely friends here in blogosphere (am not following instructions, i cannot name eight coz i just cant leave the others behind! hahah):

Lolo Apol, Madz, Ibyang, Beth, Kittykat, Iceah, Angie, Cookie, Rose aka Chubskulit, Adette,

Mareng Umma, Donna, Kreez, Ria, Kikamz, Clarissa, Bonz, Maria of Life's sweets and spices, Maria of Maria went to Chicago, Odette,

Pehpot, Sheng, Hazelicious, Dhemz, Shiela of My World in my Own Word, Babette, Rache, Mum Gwen, Sassy Mom, Dee,

Mareng Liz, Wendy, Enchie, Sweetytots, Phoebe of Baby in Between, Chris, Binx, Bonnie, JoyD and Gracia!

Thanks a lot for the friendship guyz! Kisses to all!

We're Moving!

9 days more and we are officially moving out of my inlaw's house. It will just be the three of us - Husband, Yena and Me. Am feeling anxious and excited. Anxious coz i will be doing all the house chores and that includes COOKING. I wonder why hubby told me to put poison on his food, instead of me cooking for him! Errr. He has to check out! :)

And am sooo excited as well coz it is another pace in our family life. It will look like Yobib and i will be playing 'bahay-bahayan' everday and we have a real doll Yena to play with. Yey!