Christmas season..

Christmas is a time of year to share our blessings and to think all the people we'd love. It is very hard to celebrate Christmas when you are far from your love ones. I miss my family in the Philippines but I am still happy and enjoying my Christmas here in Texas because I am celebrating it with my own family and friends. We had a lot of parties in the past days and still having some more tonight at our house. I gather all my friends who been part of our lives to celebrate New year with them. They are our family here since we are far from our families. I am just wishing a prosperous 2009 for everybody.

Wonderful world w/ wonderful friends

Last Friday night I was posted a bulletin in one of the very well-known website regarding our coming Christmas party. All I wanted was their suggestion about the ideas we had for our party but some of the members were very over reacted about it. It is so sad to think that they misunderstood what I was trying to say. Saturday pm I receive a text from one of my close friend telling me to read the post of one of the member about the reply of my posting but I was wondering why she sounded like very dis appointed, so I called my other friends and I let them read it for me since I didn't have Internet that day because I was working. When I found out about their negative replies, I was very upset and dis appointed because what we really wanted was to have fun since it is for the coming Christmas Party ( the birth of our Jesus Christ). They ever mentioned topics that was way out of nowhere. I believe, that "whatever kind of thoughts you have represents the kind of person you are" and after reading all the replies I've realized who really are my friends. They were the one who stood up for me and helped me to explain to the other members who were having hard time to understand English. To Zim, Katrina and Cristina, thank you guys for your very nice and clear explanation regarding the issue we had the friendster bulletin and I am pretty sure that some of PPM members now understand it clearly. I agree also with what Elena wrote on her friendster's profile that "Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events and small minds discuss other people", wala kasing magawa sa buhay eh. To Cecil and Sheryl, thank you for always being there for me if I needed somebody to talk with, I know you get irritated sometimes that I keep ringing your phone but still you always answered it for me. I am so lucky to have the kind of friends I have now because they are all so great and they are the kind of friends that won't let somebody hurt you and attack you. They will fight back for you as long as we know that we are in the right way to do it. So now, the party must go on and we are very excited for it, a lot of games, foods, and dancing. See you guys.. and Have a merrier Christmas to all of us.

work and work

I just found out that i am gonna be working 6 straight days 8 to 9 hours a day without a day off. It is very tiring to think about it but in the positive side, that will be more money for the holiday shopping so still okay. We have new co-worker and he is a filipino, he has the same age as my dad, so he reminds me of my dad and he is so glad that I am the one who train him,, and he's glad also that I am the who trained him, which we are" kababayan". He is a very nice guy and he works very well. I love my job and I love meeting new people.

wowowee

Last Sunday I requested a day off from work to watched wowowee. We went to reliant arena where the wowowee show being held at and we were having so much fun. They had a dance showdown giling giling where if they noticed that you dance really good they'll get you to join their contest hep hep, hurry! and recieve a money reward. SO my me and my friend Cristina where dancing so much but still they didn't noticed us, hehehe but the importnat thing was we were having so much fun. Some of the player of willie of fortune were funny but some also had a sad story. My friend Cristina were one of the player of Pera o bayong, one of their contest and have a chance to win a brand new car as a reward, and all you have to do is just answer the question they asks and you have a choices either A,B or C. Cristina really didn't get so serious about winning she was just so excited to met the wowowee staff and being shown on tv, she was out after the second question, no big deal because she was happy enough that willie mentioned her name so the player who won the pera o bayong won a brand new car. We had so much fun specially with all my closest friends.

Ordinary days

Most of my days I spend with my family and my work. Just so busy taking care of our two beautiful angels, they are the one who give me strength everyday and of course my husband as well. I also like being at work aside from earning money that is also the only way I can have a break and relax my mind because I enjoy meeting new friends. During my day off, most of the time I spend it going shopping with friends but now I realize that I have to save money and I need to spend time with my husband too because since we have kids, we don't have that much time for each other as what we had before but its okay, the important things is we both have LOVE for each other. He understand me deeply and he love's me unconditionally. Now we are looking forward for our first vacation to the Philippines with my family, it will be really fun because now we have 2 kids with us and my parents there are so excited to see them not me anymore.. ( just kidding) and of course me and my husband too. Hopefully everything will be okay and God will grant our prayers.

Coach outlet

Yesterday we attended the baptismal party of our friend daugther. We had so much fun and there were so much food. I love the lechon ( roasted pig) because it was really taste like what we have in the Philippines. Charyn, the mom gave me some to bring home and I was so glad. After the party we went straight to Coach factory which was about an hour drive, kinda far but it was worthy because I got the purse that I was dreaming to have. I am so happy and can't wait to use it, hahaha. Ally was with us also, and the weather was very freezing cold. I felt pity of my daugther Ally because she was shaking from the cold breeze so I gave her my jacket instead. We ran going to our car and drove back home. w arrived home about 9 pm.

Black Friday Shopping

Early in the morning about 4 am me and my couple of friends Cecil and Sheryl went to the store for the black Friday shopping. We had so much fun inside the store, got the stuff we need. When we went out, we were shock that my car wouldn't start, Cecil thought I was just kidding but they didn't know that I was so serious when I told them that my car didn't start, until I showed them then they believed me and it was because I forgot to turned off the lights when we left the car. We were standing outside the parking lot to look for somebody who could help us, but first we called Cliff and John to let them know that we're stock and couldn't leave. My husband were upset for what happened but in the other hand he was glad because we could not go any other store anymore and spend more money. hehehe. There were 2 sets of couples trying to help us but it didn't work, perhaps it was getting worst because they messed up the fuse, but we were still glad because we realized there are still nice people who are willing to help when we needed it. Cliff arrived and 30 minutes after John arrived too. They left to get a new battery but when they chance the battery they noticed that my car still didn't start so they were looking for the cause of the problem and they found out that it was the fuse. Again the went out to get a fuse and we stayed there for 2 and half hour to get my car fixed. At last it fixed and we were so glad but we didn't go to any other store anymore because i was really upset for what happened. We went back home and I took a nap since we got up so early in the morning.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving day, a day to give thanks to everybody who deserve it and of course to God for all the blessings that He give to us everyday. This is a very special day, where I supposed to stay home and spend time with my family but too sad to say that I was working yesterday for the whole day and when I was on my way home i got flat tire, I was wondering why my car was wobbling and then I pulled over and checked my car and I saw my tire, it was all done. I called my husband to fixed it since I didn't know anything about it, I had a bad day yesterday but I was still glad because my husband cooked already when I get home and Cliff cooked the stuffing. We had fun, my family, Cecil and Cliff. It was just a simple dinner, Cecil and cliff brought some cake and I got some pecan pie, pumpkin pie,turkey and pot roast while John made the ham with glaze, mashed potato, and I made also the fried rice. We were having fun while eating because my daugther Ally were acting funny and by the time when Cecil and Cliff left Ally were holding cliff's legs because she didn't want them to leave and Ally said,No, wait.. hehehe she is so funny until John picked her up but she was still crying.

Life

We had a lot of sacrifices in our lives before and we've been through a lot of heartache. My parents suffered a lot financially. Me and my brother went to college at the same time so my parents were struggling hard also just to sustained our needs in school. We studied hard to proved to our parents that we really appreciated their hard works. A year after my graduation I got married and left Philippines to be with my husband but even though, being married is not a hindrances to continue helping my parents perhaps by the help of my husband also, we helped our brother to achieved his dream, he was really dreaming to work abroad and he is now working in a ship route Europe as an electrician. Now, both of us helping our parents for our other siblings to finished college and by God's grace our other sister finished her college as an English teacher. We still have siblings who are in college right now and hopefully they will continue doing good in their studies. I know our parents are very proud of us. Our parents now are not worrying so much anymore about what to eat everyday because my brother give them $500 every month for their everyday needs and before it was so hard to buy even sardines or egg because we didn't have money for it. We experienced going to school without breakfast and stayed in school during lunch time because we can't pay for the tricycle. Our relatives before who were rich are now the one who are struggling and we, who suffered before are now have enough to provide our needs. I am just so proud of my brother because he is a very good brother to us, a good son and a good individual. He is so concerned about our parents and now he bought them a lands and planning to build apartments for them to have extra income. We are very lucky to have a parents like them, they sacrificed everything for us to have a better life in the future. It is good to experienced hardship in life first because you can handle all the challenges in the future. Our past experiences makes us strong everyday and now we are facing the future and hopefully our kids also will grow as a well- mannered individual and with good health.

Party,Party,Party!

Last Saturday we attended a birthday party of Adam. It was fun, we ate so many food because our friend Sheryl the mom of the birthday celebrant cooked a lot of food and it's more on Filipino food. Our friends that we didn't hang out with for awhile were there too so, it was really fun. Then after, Zim, Kyle and Brian came to our house to watch football with my husband then me and Zim had a little talking about our lives before until now on how blessed we are. When my daugther Ally want to sleep, she cried first, we didn't know whats the reason but she was just crying and crying, probably she was so tired during the day playing with other kids on the party. At the same evening also, there were another party, It was also a birthday of our Friend Marie's husband, they invited me to go there but it's hard to leave my husband with our two kids. My husband was okay for me to go but I just have to stay even if I wanted too. I knew they were having so much fun, dancing, drinking and eating,(again as usual for us) hehehe.

Unbelievable!!!!

I was shocked when I heard the story from one of our costumer about flu vaccines. I came to work this afternoon and met this friend of mine who is also our regular costumer. She noticed I am sick so she asked me if I had flu vaccines. I said no but my daugther Ally had. She told me that she read from the Internet that a flu vaccines is a very harmful to an infants and toddlers because there is mercury in it. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that until there was proof of harmful side effects from this vaccination, they felt it was unnecessary to recommend parents and doctors to seek a mercury-free version of the vaccine. Why do we need to wait until somebody will be harm from this type of vaccination to seek a mercury-free version of vaccine. We are talking about the health of the young kids so they should be more careful.
I felt so bad because we let our daugther to have a flu shots, we shouldn't do it but it is too late now, we should have known this before we decided to give her one. Until now my conscience always bothers me, I can't believe it. So, to all my friends who didn't let her kids have flu shots yet, don't give them..Your kids will be okay even without it. We have a big regrets why we let Ally to have it. Better luck next time because there will be no more next time. Thanks to Dr. Mercola for the all information. You can check out his website at http://www.mercola.com/ and you 'll learn a lot from him specially about your healths.

Doctor's visit

After visiting my friend Leah today I told my husband to make a phone call for our kids pedia coz they both are sick and they need to have check up. My daugther Dimple cried so much today, at noon time, she started crying around 12 noon til 1:30 pm, never stop. It was very stressful and didn't know what to do. When my youngest cried, the eldest also will follow, so it's even more stressing to me but I still have enough patient to control my emotion. It is very hard raising kids but I am prepared for all of this coz we want this and we love our kids. Dimple cried so bad, I tried to do everything but still didn't stop, I know she didn't feel good today so when she didn't stop crying after I did everything , it seems like i was started loosing my patient specially when my eldest also started crying. I screamed so loud to have a relief coz It was so much for me already, seems like I get crazy, hehehe, I love them so much so as far as I could handle it, I'd rather do something to avoid hitting them like to go outside and breathe fresh air.

So at 2:40pm we went to the doctor for their check up and thanks God everything is fine. It is just a simple cold from the cold weather. Ally got her flu shots and hopefully it will help her avoiding from to have flu. Now it's 8:25 pm while writing this blog, they are both asleep, and I can now have a peace of mind.

Sick..

Since last night I felt so terrible when I was at work. I had fever, cold and cough, I hate it not because I am sick but because I have 2 kids and a husband who needs me. If one member of the family gets sick, you have to expect that almost everybody will get sick and that's what happen to us. It started with my eldest daugther Ally, she had fever 5 days ago, have cold and cough then my youngest daugther Dimple got it now too til their dad also have it now and then me. I hate when the weather is cold coz everybody will get sick. It is so hard to be sick coz you'll lost your energy and feel very terrible and you can't function. I am planning today to seem y other friend whom I didn't see for a while but I don't know if we can go and see her. We need to stay home and get some rest since I am also off from work today.

Shopwiki.com

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Vacation with Pay..

I went to costumer service where I work last and took my pay stub since I have direct deposit and I was so happy when I found out that I still have 2 weeks vacation with pay.... lalalalala.. and I can use it next month since November is almost finish. Maybe I could watch wowowee show and attend our Christmas party.. Love it. I thought it's all bad things that I'll encounter where I work but there still always good things, in spite of all the bad experiences I had against our manager and the new management we have, I can still say that I am lucky that I work with them. God will always surprise us with blessings everyday if only we believe in Him.

Friendster

I am so upset today when I open my friendster account and suddenly all my friends list were gone. I was shock and didn't know why. Since Yesterday I kept trying to open friendster's website, but I couldn't open it, it was said that it was their maintenance until today, I just opened it with a shocking discovery. I had a lot of friends list but it was all gone. So I cancelled my Allyjanjohn account and will just use Ally's account. I felt really bad for what their website did to my account. They shouldn't do that. Now I am gonna have to start all over again. I made a phone call to my friend cecil to know if her account also have the same problem, and ya almost all our friends has the same problem. What a hassle they made for us as a subscriber. So to those who didn't open yet their friendster account, open it now and look if you have they same problem we got.

Sleepy but happy

I just woke up but I am still so sleepy today coz I slept late last night because of my work the woke up so early beauce of my daugther Ally, she wakes up 5:30 in the morning everyday. I feel terrible but still trying to do the chores. Since I have kids my life change a lot too, I couldn't sleep as much as I did before, I can't do things that I wanted to do, like taking a nap anytime i want, taking shower all the time I want and going somewhere anytime I wanted to but the best changes i have is we are much happier now than before. You have to be ready to have kids not just coz you are jealous of your friends who have kids, that's why you also wanted to have one and you don't know the responsibilities ahead that you needed to do. It is very hard raising kids but very fun. If ever I have a chance to choose what kind of life I want, I still love to choose the life that I have now with our beautiful daugthers and wonderful husband.

Pissed off..

I made a phone call to my parents tonight after work coz I miss them so much. I talk to them and after awhile I told my mom that I want to talk to our youngest sister and it's been awhile we didn't talk each other coz she is always busy with her college. SO this time she was home, and had a chance to talk to her. I advised her to act like a real woman now since she is acting like a boy and she's not getting any younger. I don't want her grow old alone, but as soon as our conversation starts, seems like she is so mad at me,and she just insulting me all the time, and I didn't know why? maybe because she don't want to be told what to do,or maybe she's happy of what she is now. I didn't have any bad intention, that was just an advice and it is for her own good. I am so pissed off and mad at her too coz I also help her for her college sometimes if she needed money from me but it seems like she don't respect me as her older sister. It is very hurtful to feel a situation like this specially when the one who did it is the person you love. I love her of course, she is our youngest sister. They don't know how hard we work just to help them but it's seems that they don't appreciate it. We sacrifice being away from them just to help them to have a better life too. I love my family and I still love her, inspite of what she did to me tonight. She is still our little sister and I know later she'll realize what she did to me.

Christmas Tree

Since I was a child I kept dreaming to have those Christmas tree I've
seen from the mall. Big and full of decoration, but it was just all a dream and never thought we get one coz we knew we didn't have money to buy for it, if ever we had extra instead of buying stuff that wasn't really necessary we'd rather used it to buy rice. what I did was cut branches from jack fruit or other trees to create a Christmas tree. It was still fun. The important is the spirit of Christmas will always be in our home. Until I got married but still dreaming to get one of those. So when I first celebrated my Christmas here in U.S. my husband and I went to a shopping store to get one.

This is what we bought, I keep this all this time coz this is very memorable to me. My dream came true, This is not so big but big enough to put in our small house. My husband let me got everything what I want for this Christmas since he knew it was really my dream to have this. ( mabaw kaayo kalipay). So now it's Christmas time again and I am thinking about my family back in the Philippines. I know my mom is really also wanting to have one of this so I gave them money to grant their wish. My sister and mom were so excited to shop a Christmas tree and decoration. They spent 5,000 pesos for it which is $110.00, not too bad coz we can't put a price on our Parents happiness. My mom and dad were so much happy and they got even bigger than mine here, hehehe.. it's okay their happiness is my happiness too. My mom told me that she can't believe she got one now. We don't know that as simple gift as that can make people happy. So, think about your love ones and realize what they're dreaming from a long time to have and share the blessings that God give you, in that way you will find the true meaning of Christmas.

My grandma's death anniversary..

I just made a phone call for my family in the Philippines and didn't know it was also a death anniversary of my grandma yesterday. My mom told me that all our relatives from Zamboanga were there and they were having so much fun. Too bad just us and my brother who were not there but its okay time will come that we'll also gathering there, hopefully next year. It's just hard to promise that we'll going back home for vacation coz I did promise a lot of times already but it didn't come true,, as what they've said promises are made to be broken, hopefully this time it will come true, God willing. I just can't wait to see my parents and famly again. It's been almost 5 years that I didnt' see them so we think it's time. My brother also will go home that time so it's gonna be a lot of fun.My brother bought a pig for lechon, can't wait. We'll be having a family reunion coz who knows when will can be back home again after this vacation. As time getting closer,days getting longer to wait..It's always like that , maybe because we are just so excited to be back home. Just me and John, left the Philippines before, and now, 4 of us will go back there, Amazing.

How I met my husband..

After my high school, My parents were very excited for my college. But again we didn't have the money so I told them that I have to work first to save money for my college. I did stop for 3 years and worked but didn't still save money. 3 years after my parents wanted me to go back to school, they had enough savings for it and they wanted me to enroll in one of the universities in our city. I did took up Accounting major in managements but it didn't last that long, I only went to these school for 3 semesters, it was because we had a teacher that I really hate, I didn't want to attend his subject so I dropped out and didn't withdrawn my enrollment. My parents once again so upset about me, and a year after they wanted me to go back to college. But,the problem was, I couldn't get my transcript from the other universities if I wouldn't pay the balance of 3,000 pesos since I didn't withdrawn my enrollment when I dropped out. My dad, find ways to get my transcript and ya, I got it. I enrolled again in other college school, which the NORSU (Negros Oriental State Universities) and I took up BSEED major in Mathematics. It was tough for my parents since me and my brother went to college together. In my 3rd year in college I started to have boyfriend, my parents really didn't agree with it but for me it was just for fun. I had a lot of gay friends too and u know already the attitude of other gays, they are very fun to be with and they act like really a real woman. SO,my uncle and relatives had a bad perception about me. One night my uncle told my mom that I couldn't finish college coz I will be getting pregnant, my other uncle compare me to my other cousin who were was good and well behave than me,then my grandfather told me that he never experienced that his grand daughter have a formal wedding first before living together. I didn't blame him coz all my cousin, they got pregnant first before having their wedding. I just swallowed everything they said and told myself I am gonna prove them wrong. My mom felt hurt about what my uncle told him and I told my parents not to worry about what they've heard, I was gonna prove them wrong. Until my graduation day had come and I invited all my uncles and relatives to showed to them that I did finish my college without getting pregnant but they didn't showed up on my graduation, which I understand coz they were shy for what they've told us. I started working and meeting all this kind of people in the Internet. I Had 5 foreign boyfriend, one was from Dallas, the other one was from Berkeley CA.,North Carolina, from Alaska and another from California also. We exchanging emails, phone calls but I was just so serious with the one from Dallas and his name is Terry. He was working in the ship, he was Navy and when there ship docked in Singapore, he went to our place to met me in person. I was scared so I had friends always with me when we met. He was so serious about our relationship and he talked to my parents that he really wanted to marry me. I was shocked and unsure with that matter. He was very nice guy too. He call me every night just to ask if i already ate my dinner or if everything is okay. He just love to hear my voice before he'll go back to work, how sweet but I kept doing Internet until one day I met a guy name John.

He was very nice guy too who live in Pittsburgh PA. He was very eager to visit in the Philippines not to meet me but to share a little of his blessings by giving a party to a sick children in the hospital. I was the one creating the party and we decided instead of the sick children, why not in the Orphanage since it was mothers day. So, we did the party in the Orphanage. he gave them foods, money, clothes for the kids and a very nice party. After the party, he surprised me and told me that he wants to spend time with me, just us... take note, "JUST US" hahaha, so scary but life is always risky, so I took a risked that day and we went to Panglao island Bohol. We had so much fun and that was the time we realized that we are meant for each other. I felt the comfort, and so much love from him when we're together.This time I knew he was the one for me. Since the very beginning I didn't lie to John and I told him everything about me that I have boyfriend from Dallas but he said, to take my time and to think which one was really make me feel comfortable with. He didn't rushed me so when I came back home to Dumaguete and John went back to USA I made a phone call to Terry and told him the truth that maybe we were not meant to be. He cried on the phone but understand me, and thanked me that i was very honest to him. Since then, it seems like there was a missing piece of me that only John could fill it. So I told him that I was very sure with my decision that He was the one for me. As soon after, we arrange our wedding in the Philippines and everything was going great.
We got married on Sept. 23,2003 An anniversary day also of my parents. Now, I am so happy with my life, with our 2 beautiful kids and a wonderful life here in the USA. It is God's way that leads us to be where we are now. My relatives now are trying to be close to us but they can't get anything from us. We forgive them but we'll never forget what they did us.

My childhood and teenage life

Everybody thought I had a happy childhood, but you're wrong, I had tough childhood. When I was a kid, I love to play with other kids and hate when my mom told me to watched my younger sister coz i couldn't play. Kids should enjoy their childhood and that's what I was really wanting to have when I was a kid. At the age of 10 or 12, I already did a responsibility like watching my younger siblings while my mom is doing household chores, If I didn't do it, they punished me by hitting me using belt or any stick that they've seen. I was just so jealous watching other kids playing, having so much fun and laughing. I just cried coz nothing I can do. One day, my childhood friends, came to the house and inviting me to get mango fruit in our neighbors, I didn't asked permission from my parents coz I was sure they wouldn't allow me to go with them, so I went with my friends. My dad, looked for me and scolded me in front of my other friends. I was so embarrassed and when we get home he hit me again with belt in back. It was so painful and there were a lot of belt mark and bruises in my back. I couldn't even took a shower coz it was so sore. I cried again and told myself that one day they'll ask a help from me. I cried and cried but it seems that it didn't bother them that they hurt me. But since I was on my younger age I still tried to enjoy myself and forget all those sad memories. But it was so hard specially when I am alone til now, those memories still remain in my minds, I forgive them already but the memories will never disappear in my minds. I still cried every time I remember my childhood life. The when I was in High school, I studied in one of the technological school in the city since my parents didn't want us to go school in those schools closes where we live, coz they were bad schools, not bad as in bad but my parents just want us to be in a nice school. So,It was very expensive for us to study in those school since, we are not that rich. The transportation, all the projects from school and all the books since we need to buy some of our books. One day we had a periodical exam that I needed to go school that day when it happened also that my parents didn't have money for my transportation, even just for transportation and that was only cost us supposedly 10 pesos. My dad tried to trade our rice scale to my uncle who is known a rich guy in our place but he refused coz he said he's money is only for his business, not for a needs. So my dad went back home sad and told me that I couldn't go to school. I cried again and told them that if that so, I will walk going to school. They didn't believe me but I really did walk going to school that day back and fort and it took 3 hours for me to walk from our house to my school. I was so happy that I made it to take our exam. I believe that Success is even sweeter when you put effort and hard work on it.. that was I felt when I finished my H.S.

Shocking news from a friend..

It's been a little while that I haven't talk to one of my closest friend. Our lives is always busy everyday since we both have little angel, our new member of the family. I was just expecting everything goes okay with her and to her family her and in California, until one day another friend of ours called me and told me that she needs to go back to the Philippines for emergency reason, I was shock why, what's going on. So I gave her a call and she told me while crying that she needs to go back to the PH. coz her mom is aleady back there for health reason. Her mother is suffering for stage 3 colon cancer. It was really sad to hear that news about the family of your close friend. But they are still positive thinking that everything will be okay. God is good. So please help us to make a prayer for the recovery of my friends mom.

Ally is sick

Last night when I came home from work I sat on the computer that suddenly my husband got up carrying ally. I was wondering whats going on since it was almost 12 midnight and they were already asleep when I got home. I ask him and he told me that ally throw-up. I was so worried and asking my daughter if she's OK, and she said that she is , OK, that makes me feel better. It is so hard when your kids are not feeling well, you'd rather be sick than them. We changed the bedding's and pillow cases. They went back to sleep. We and Dimple also were sleeping in the other bedroom. At 6:30 am, Ally woke up and asked something to eat, so I gave her cereal and bread,but after she ate she again throw-up. I was worried and try to comfort her. Didn't know whats going on. I put her to bath while I am cooking soup and rice for her. After bath I fed her with rice and soup and thanks God she didn't throw it up. We ( the parents) just always wanted for a good health on our family specially to our kids. It's hard watching them being not in the mood or weak. Thankfully now Ally have her energy back again.

Dimple's baptismal

I had so much fun todya with friends. we are just so grateful that we are sorrounded with great friends. I asked a favor from cheryl to stay in the house while we will be at the church and they are so nice to say yes to us. Thank you so much Cheryl and family. We left at 10;30 to go to the Church for DImple's baptismal and when went there, Decon Bob was already there waited and I was glad everybody came in early so we started 10 minutes after 11. It was so funny coz my husband told one of the ninangs of dimple to sign up something in the book and they didn't even look what was being written on the book and one of dimple's ninang signed up her full name and the date today, she was even asking me what date is today so told her that it is Nov. 8. So when I noticed the message written on the book, I was laughing coz the book that she signed up was the book for a list of deceased person, that was the book that the priest will read during masses if you need to make a prayer for your beloved ones who past away. So it was so funny coz she wrote her full name their and the date today. Crazy friend....So I erased it and the decon told me, " you don't want to be on that book" hehehehe.. My husband is being silly, he didn't know either. The baptismal finished around 11:30 and we were headed back to our residence where the pakals is being held.

I cooked menudo, Chicken stir fry, meat-balls with gravy, pasta, bihon, filipino style barbecue,Pot roast and potato salad. My friend Cecil brought fruit salad and Ate Geny brought some cassava cake. All those desert taste so good that you wouldn't even want to stop eating it. Thanks to both of you. Everybody else went home around 5 pm except Zim and cecil, they stayed til 7 pm, we had funny conversation regarding serious matter, hahahaha nus a gud me na seryoso. So we had so much fun today and thanks God that Dimple is now a child of God. Thanks to the ninongs and ninang, and to all my friends who came...

Friday night

I left at work at 9 pm to get some stuff that I forgot for the next day celebration, we will be having a Baptismal of my adorable daugther Dimple. I came home around 10pm and fed dimple first then started slicing all the spices for my cooking in the very early Saturday morning. I had to prepare everything what will I needed so that I can just continue cooking. My husband woke up coz I was so noisy in the kitchen but he understood that I have to do it. He asked me what can he help me in the next day when he wakes up and told him to just wake me up so that I can start cooking early.I slept around 1:30 am and he woke me up at 5 am and was still so sleepy, I told him to just give 5 more minutes to wake up myself. It seems that I didn't want to get up but I had too, so I started my cooking and finished about 9 am. Was so glad at last I was done in the kitchen and good thing that my husband help too by putting Ally to bathe and cleaning up the living room. So I got ready my self and Dimple since we need to be in the Church around 11 am. It was a tough night for me but very glad the baptismal is over.

Vehicle crashes in the Phil.

Are you familiar of any Philippine news channel? If you do then you must be also aware of this news. Every time I watched news channel, there is always a news about car crashes or bus crashes. It is very scary to ride now on any of this transportation there coz u don't have any choice, either bus or car there is always an accident. Transportation company should do something about it, to save a lot of lives of Filipino people or they should do a strict training for all the drivers before letting them to operate any of this vehicle. A lot of innocent people victimize of this so -called carelessness from this vehicle drivers.

I always love watching Philippine news channel but if only almost about all this sad news, I'd rather not watching the news, it will just makes me feel bad thinking that we also have families their who are also depending on this kind of transportation. I keep praying that hopefully my family there will be safe all the time. They must do something about this for its not too late.

An ordinary day..

Sunday morning, woke so early and went to get some grocery. At 9:45 my friend called me to pick up their new car. We ate lunch at home and watching football. At 1:20 pm, change my clothes then went to work. It was so busy at work, obviously coz it was Sunday. 11:05 went home from work and had to do stuff that I usually do every after work. 12:30 went to slept and woke 5:45 Monday morning. I had only5 hours of slept that day, which is usually normal to me now since i have kids. I know it'll never go back from before having kids that I slept over 8 hours every night. It's hard but I am not complaining coz everything is worth it. So Monday morning, did the chores, like putting the kids to bathe, feed them and putting them to nap. At 1:45 pm, had to leave again to go to work. It was worst day at work coz my stupid co-worker left at 8;45pm instead of 10 pm, he was scheduled 'til 10 pm I was the one who supposed to leave early but ending it up I was the one who left 10:30 pm. So I arrived home at 10:55, do the chores again and went to bed at 11:30. Woke up 6:30 since my eldest daugther woke me up and I am just glad coz I am off today from work so hopefully can have some nap later.

Halloween party

Last night we had Halloween party at Katrina's house. Almost everybody wore their costumes except me and Ally, my daughter. I felt bad for myself why I didn't get our costumes ahead of times, maybe because I didn't know if I can have day off from my work that day. We started looking for Ally's costume at 10 in the morning til 6 pm but didn't find what I wanted for her. I went to Party City to get the Bumble bee costume but I had to fall in a very long line to get the costumes so I decided to go home and made a call for Katrina and Cristina that maybe we couldn't make it to attend the Party, but when Katrina told me that almost all of our friends from even farther where we live will come, I felt conscience and decided to come I was glad we came coz we had so much fun

We were dancing and some were drinking Tequila or champagne..hehehe not sure coz not familiar with that stuff.. sorry I'm weird but that's true. Zim, was so funny she kept stepping on my toes all the time and she chased me trying to kiss it.. so funny and for sure she didn't know what she was doing... just the result from the champagne or tequila they drank.
We left 11:20pm from the party and was so sleepy while driving. I was so tired and had muscle pain when I woke up in the morning. It was just from dancing and it's been awhile I didn't dance those wild,,, heheheh we were dancing so wild. I was thinking to call in from work since I had schedule to work in the following day. I had headache too but 30 minutes b4 I had leave, I decided to work hehehe thinking of the Pay check..lol.

Sad Night

It was a long for me at work today. It was a great day and we had so much fun until when I found out that I lost my money in my pocket. It was very frustrating coz it;s not easy to make money but, looking at in the positive way, maybe the person who finds it realy needs it most that I am but they should return it if they know that it wasn't there money. Maybe there are only very few honest people on earth and hopefully everybody will try to be honest, coz as what the saying said, "Do not do unto others what you don't want others do unto you". I came home and called my friend cecil to tell her abotu what happen just to have a relief from the frustration I have. I told my self that It's okay, It was only a money. There are more important things that I am gonna have to pay attention about,,,,huhuhuhu...

Dreaming about my dead friend

Back 2001,It was one Sunday morning our friends came to the house brought some news about our other friend who has been shot dead and dumped in the middle of a sugarcane plantation. It was a sad day for and for the whole neighborhood and the saddest thing was it was also our neighbors who did the crime. This was the story I've heard. Saturday night b4 the incident happened a group of the victim friends got drunk in one of their friend's house(3 friends). They had so much fun but the victim didn't know that it was really a plan from his Friends to kill him that night. They said it was a jealousy that made his friends to kill him two of them is his own cousin. So everybody was panic that day and didn't understand why. we couldn't believe the such a crime will happened to our community coz our community was known to be a friendly neighborhood. So they brought the dead body of our friend to the funeral homes and did some autopsy to find out what was really the cause of his death and it was a shot from his head. All the suspects disappear in the following morning but still the police caught them. They've been investigated and waiting for their trials without even putting them in a prison. Nobody really knows who shoot him, we just knew that group of them but who really shoot him, we didn't know. Parents of the victim were very devastated specially they were only 2 siblings in the family, him the victim and his sister. Everybody is praying and hoping that they'll found which one of his friend that shoot him.

A month goes by, would you believe it or not 2 of the suspects died from sleeping only one left alive. The rumor from the other suspect was being poisoned and the other suspect died from his sleep. They said it was a cardiac arrest that killed the other suspect but no one believe them. We believe that it was God's way of letting the family of the victims knows who really killed their son. so since then i always dream about the victim. He always appear on my dreams even if I always makes a prayer for him that he'll be ok and his family also were ok and not to make me dream about him anymore. But last night it my dreams, he showed to me who really killed him. In my dreams it was his cousin, one from the group of friends who got drunk that Saturday night, is the one who killed him, the one who is still alive. It was weird but I don't know why he keep appearing on my dreams. Hopefully he is happy now coz everybody is happy now. his family has move on already so praying that he has too.

When Ally arrive...

May of 2005 I had 6 weeks old miscarriage. It was so sad and deppressing coz we were expecting a lot for our coming child but suddenly, was gone. It's hard for us to accept the fact that our baby was gone but I looked at it in a positive way, maybe it was really a God's will, coz if ever the baby survive but there will a problem on her health, that would be more painful for us to watch our child suffer. I went throu evacuate surgery to take out all the the blood since it was a blood yet inside my uterus.

7 months after, God gave us another blessings. early in the morning I had nusea, which was very weird for me coz I didn't know what happened. I told my husband that maybe I was pregnant but he was insisting me that I was not. I didn;t blame him coz maybe i had 4 pregnancy test in the past and it was all came out negative. We decided to visit OB Gyne to see to it if I wasn;t really pregnant. I took a text throu blood test but was still came out negative. One day we went to a grocery store and told my husband again to get another pregnancy test, but still he told me that I wasn't pregnant. This is what he exactly told me " No, you are not pregnant, you are just wasting your money to get that test", Thanks God I was hard headed enough not to listen to him and was still get the preganncy test, A day after, early in the morning I took a test and wow.... it was POSITIVE. Since my husband was at work, I immidiately called him and told him the news, He couldn't believe it and i can hear the happiness reaction he had that day. We were so excited for the future. we wewnt ot visit the OB gyne again, not the same OB gyne I had on my frist check up but different one, It was a male black doctor name Doctor Peterson of St. lukes episcopical clinic. He was so good. I had ultrasound to see if everything was ok, and Thanks God.. everything was fine. ON the 5th month ultrasound, we knew that it was a girl, and it was so exciting watching our baby inside my tummy, yawning, and having hiccup then she did thumb suck.. What a miracle from God.

The big day came. It was Sept. 27 at 11 pm, I started my labor and I couldn't understand the pain, it was really painful, We had phonecall my OB and told us to go to the hospital. 3 hours after they gave me epidural to ease the pain. wow, what a big relief. At 1:04 pm our daugther arrived by normal delivery..... and we named her Alyssa Jean Ross. It's been 2 years since she was born but everything seems so fresh to us.. All the experiences we had until now still unimagineable. She brought so much joy and happiness to us... and happy to say we have now 2 kids. The arrival of our second baby makes us complete.. Our family is complete and I am very happy for what God has given to us.

Haunted house

Most of us are dreaming to have oour own house, but not just a house, a big house. I met a friend who recently moved to thier new, big house around Texas. At first she was so happy and excited to start a new life with her family and kids. They have a very big house with a very big backyard. At first you can tell, how lucky she is to have this blessings but in return she has to deal with unwanted visitors.

One day, she was cleaning in the kitcher, she saw somebody at thier backyard, opening the refrigerator, since they also have ref. outside and drank some water. She toke a glance and it was her husband. But when she went to thier bedroom to get something, her hsuband was thier sleeping. She felt scared and trying to realized how did it happened that her husband was in two places at the same time. So she was just ignoring the situation, another incident happened. She was takign a nap and lying down on the floor with her son, she noticed a little girl watching them from upstairs, but when she was trying to go closer, no one is thier. She she went back to sleep but she felt again that somebody is watching her standing in forn of her where she layed down. She started saying a Prayer. She was trying to tell her hsuband about she discovered and experiences but her husband don;t believe it. Is there really an unwanted visitors on thier house or it was just her illusion.

Last monday on my day off, We went to thier house for a visit. We had talked and lunch together and as soon as we were ready to leave, the ceiling fan upstairs, turned on by it self. I started having ghost bump and can't explain what I felt that time.. What I was wanted to do was to go home.

I am just so happy we have a small house,, coz I don't need to worry about wierd things will happen.

A man killed in Kroger...

Saturday after, when I was at work I've noticed one of our rehualr costumer, crying while getting some coffee from starbucks. I asked her why and she was just quite until she find time to talked to me comfortably.

It was about the news on tv last week, about a guy who has been killed at kroger while waiting on his car for his campanion. He was been robbed but sadly been killed after. It was her nephew who is the vicitm, I felt so sorry for the situation and told myself, better if I didn;t ask her instead coz I know how hard to tell a story like that.

I feel so bad why people just rather do bad things in order to get money instead of working hard for it. I feel so sorry to our costumer's family and I know how hard it is for them right now specially christmas is coming. Our prayers will be with ya'll.

My daily live activities

Today is a long day for us with my friends, we had lunch at home and went to the mall for a little shopping. We went to a place ot get some dresses for the coming occassion that we'll be having and it is just so hard to fit dresses coz sadly to say, I am still little bit big, from having my second child, hu hu hu it's to hard lose ur baby fats but It's all worthy. Just so jealous with my friends coz they are all skinny,huhuhu, but so happy to have this life and wonderful family. :-)




I miss the time to go out just by myself and friends without having my kids with me, but when I'm out w/out my kids, my thoughts is always just about them coz I miss them even just for a little while that I am away with them. Hard to understand the feeling of a mom, but I love being a mom. I am just so lucky that my husband let me go out without them, he is just the best husband on earth.. hehehehe.

Qiuapo ,Manila

Last Saturday morning Aug.2, 2008 while my brother walked down the road around qiuapo, teenage boy bumped him and suddenly somebody behind him snatch his cellphone. It was on his pocket at front of his jeans but still the bad guys took it. It was so sad when they told me about it but we just let God punished those people. We know how hard life in the philippines is but doing bad things is not a solution. It was so sad knowing that people don't have any other choice to support thier family. They didn't realized that those who they victimize are also struggling and working hard to get things what they want, just like my brother he is working in a ship, he sacrificed hiself being apart from our family just to support himself, so how could this bad guys can't find other way to survive instead of doing bad things. There is a lot of situation like this going on around Qiuapo, manila or anywhere else in manila so whenever you'll planning to have a vacation back there, please make extra careful so you'll never know, bad people are jsut around you.

Sleepless night

Oh... Another sleepless nigth last night. My 4 days old baby just kept crying and I didn;t know the reason

When my baby was born.

July 28,08 at 4:29 pm, I gave birth to a very precious little girl. She weigh 6.13lb which is normal size for a baby. Labor wasn't really fun at all until she came out. Before that, my contraction started at 4 am, it was so painful but still tried to manage the pain coz it was only 10 minutes apart, at 7 am, I walked around our subdivision just to have faster contraction sothat we can go to the hospital but still 10 minutes apart. It felt terrible. At 11 am, I decided to contact my doctor to tell them that I needed to go to the hospital, they asked so many questions but really insisted that i need to have some pain reliever, so they told me to go the hospital, as we get in a nurse checked me up and told me i was almost 7 cm dilated, I was surprised coz remember it was only 10 minutes apart, I believe that the closer the contraciton the faster the dilation it will be, but in my case it wasn't. So they gave me I-V right away and epidural to ease the pain, wow, it helped a lot. At 3 pm I started pushing coz I really wanted to have normal delivery thou I had an epidural but at least vaginal birth is faster for recovery than C-S. So I kept pushing but seems like there was no signs for my baby to come out, the doctor told me that maybe I will go thru C-S if the baby won't come out on my last 2 pushed. They only gave me 5 minutes chances to push and if not they'll bring me to OR for C-S. I felt nervous but still manage to calm down and concentrate on pushing, Luckily and in God's will at 4:29 pm my baby came out, I was so happy and felt very blessed seeing my baby and knowing that everything was ok. Pregnancy need a lot of prayers and exercise. you;ll never know what's gonna happen, just like my experienced. God bless and have a great day.

Bonding time..

I was having so much fun yesterday with my husband coz we were playing family feud on our computer. It was fun thou I lost the entire game but it was very exciting. Me and my husband are the same, we both likes playing games in the computer. It was so funny coz at first I was the one who got the score but later I didn't know the rest of the answer, my husband stole my points coz he knew the answer, I was trying to asked him but he just kept saying he didn't know and of course he knew coz he got it. He was very wise coz when he noticed that he only knew a couple of answer and he got the number 1 answer, he'll pass and ending up me answering the rest of the answer and he will save the other answer that he knew when i can't give all of the answers and its time for him to steal..Funny, but it was very exciting.. try it guys and you'll love it.

Baby boy in the Car.

I am very sad today while watching the news about the 2 year old little boy founf dead inside the car. According to the news one of this little boy's relatives left him inside the car for abotu an hour under almsot 100% temp. What an irresponsible individual. How could you forget that there is a baby with you inside your car. I can't imagine how that happened but it is very rediculous. In my situation being a mom, I can't even sacrifice my self seeing my daugther's in pain, specially during her pedia's visit when they give her a shots, I'll let my husband to hold her coz it seems like I am the in pain, how much more leaving ur kids inside the car with a very hot temperature. Parents or any individual who have kids, we should always put our kids as first of our priorities and we have to taking care of them. They are a God's blessings so we have to handle them with care.

Hopefully there will be no more accident that will happen like this.

My Doctor's check up

I am already in my 38 weeks og pregnancy and 2 weeks more to go to see our little angel. Yesterday I had my weekly check up and thanks God everything is ok. I am already dilating 1 cm so its getting closer. We are just so excitedfor my delivery. My daugther ally is always with me everytime I have check so that she'll realize that there is another baby coming and that she won't be jealous, hopefully, since it's really hard to bring kid during check up, I am just so lucky to have a friend who is always with me. She is very nice friend and I am glad i have her as one of my dearest friend. Her name is cecil, and she's really a great friend to me. She help me by watching ally(my daugther) while I am having my check up.

Real friends are hard to find and once you have it, keep it and make it as a treasure, coz maybe when you lose it, you'll never find the same kind of friend again.

Have a great every one and God bless

What a wonderful life..

What a great day to start, thou kind of tired but it is a very beautiful day. We started our days by taking a walk with my hubby, and daugther ally, I just love spending time with my family. Yesterday we went to a baby shower from one of my friend and we had so much fun. Anything we do, anywhere we go, as long as my family are together every moment is precious. We had joined games and we laugh out loud. so much fun and my daugther and hubby went outside under 100 % temperature just to play swing. My daugther is a very daddy's girl. What a blessings form above, A beautiful daugther, a wonderful husband and another precious ange is on her way. I alwaysn thanks God for all this blessings and every beautiful mornings He give to us. Have a great day.

Just sad today...

I am sad today for personal reason and I know shouldn't have to, specially I am pregnant, i know my baby will feel the same inside but i can't help my self. Life is always a challenge every single day as we wake up, you don't know what's gonna happen. I am so upset today but when I did some exercise by walking outside it makes me feel ok, a little bit. I know God is good and He's always there for all of us. I know I can handle this with prayers. Have a great day to everybody.

Being Pregnant!

I am now if my final month of my pregnancy and it is very exciting to seea nd hold our new member of teh family. Being pregnant is a very amazing experienced that every women dreaming of.

Feeling of a new mom: experienced of a first time mom

Feeling of a new mom: experienced of a first time mom

Experienced of a first time mom

I thought being a mom is just so easy task of life, but now I am a mom, I knew how difficult it is specially if you don't know what to do. Being a first time mom, when my daugther gets sick,I don't know what to do, when she cried it makes me feel bad and start asking myself, Am I a good mother? Did I do the right things being a mom? questions that nobody could give me answers until the day when my daugther is getting bigger and start to respond me. She give a lot of kisses and hugs and thats when I feel that I am a good mom to her. It is very hard but very rewarding job being a mom. A lot of people thought that to have kids is just so easy but when you think all the responsibility that we need to do for our children, it is very hard. You have to give 100% of your patience, love and care to your kids and always looking forward for them to have a good future. Now, I am on my way to our second child and I know this time, I will be a good mom coz I raise my daugther with good behavior and a friendly manner.