A Housewife's Journal

birthday surprise

My MIL is celebrating her birthday on Sunday and she is in for surprise

I don't know the details yet but it will be really FUN for the family.

For starter, we will celebrate it at Tagaytay. It will be an overnight stay and they rented a place already. I am so happy of this because it will be the kids' first time to sleep in a cool weather place. Our Baguio trip didn't push through so this is a better alternative.

Then we will have a family photoshoot. With the Taal Lake as a background, it will really be great. I still have to prepare for our 'semi-formal' clothes. I haven't ironed anything yet. In fact, I haven't washed our clothes for this week yet.

On Sunday, we will have a tour around the city. I wish we could drop by one of their zoos. The kids will surely enjoy looking at the animals 'in real'. I hope they could ride a horse too (something I promised, if we did push through with Baguio), even if they have no riding boots kids edition yet.

All in all, I just wish that mama enjoys her day more than we would.

Posted by mari at Friday, May 17, 2013 5:08 AM | Add Comment

touching moment

The Cebuana Pera Padala never fails to make me smile. It is so touching that the first time I saw it, I was teary-eyed. I loved how the production made the 'money' really worthy to its recipient. Additional factor is Coco Martin

the attention was first diverted to him but when the sender comes out, then that's the time that it makes the commercial close to the heart.

It is not easy being away from home. But for growing families, it is the best sacrifice that anyone can do to have a better future. There are instances when we are thinking of letting G go abroad to work. Even if its just for a year or two, then when he comes back we'll just venture into business. Something that has to do with consultation or general merchandise. We can even consider to buy silver coins which is a stable business too.

Anyways, going back to the commercial, I hope the recipients use the money sent to them in a nice way. People worked hard to earn it. They might as well take good care of it, as a way of thanking their senders

Posted by mari at Friday, May 17, 2013 4:42 AM | Add Comment

mother's day 2013

Posted by mari at Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:30 AM | Add Comment

counting our blessings

It has been 4 months since our househelp left us for our neighbor. Since then, it was just me, the kids and tatay. There were times when the children were uncooperative but everything ended well (except for the other day's accident). Since then, we have stabilized our savings and expenses. We are saving more than what we expected. Because of this, we are thinking of another investment that we wanted to venture into. But before getting into IT, I wanted to have something beautiful for the house. I am thinking of something with interior water features that can serve as a design or a lucky charm for the house. This is my year and it will be a lot more better in the coming days.

Posted by mari at Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:27 AM | Add Comment

election fever

Few more days before Election 2013 and I haven't completed my list yet. I am still contemplating on who should get my vote. The kids on the other hand, love this election fever. They enjoy the jingles and they sing along with it. Among their favorites are Jack Enrile and Manny Alipon (a local candidate here in Sta. Rosa). It is striking for them to the point that they even sing it to themselves whenever they 'just think' about them. Aside from this, they also learn about the candidate through their posters and tarpaulin posted all over the place. While the kids are thinking of who the candidates look like, I am thinking how lucky the business owners of the local printing are during this season.

Howell, what is important now is that I get to cast my vote on monday. The kids' future will depend on who I choose to lead the country that we are living now.

Posted by mari at Saturday, May 11, 2013 12:54 AM | Add Comment

learning the hard way

The kids are very 'makulit' lately, especially Achi. Almost everyday I reprimand her for her behavior. Today something happened that she really can't forget. She fell from the sofa and she hit the floor. I had to rush her to the hospital and she had stitches on her nape.

I am guilty of what happened. I was to lax in looking after her. I thought she was already old enough to take care of herself. i forgot that she is still a child who needs proper guidance during play. I really feel sorry for what happened to her.

Because of this, I am thinking if I should get a househelp again. I need someone to look after the bigger girls and at the same time do the chores. Laundry is piling, the house is in mess... hay!

Posted by mari at Friday, May 10, 2013 5:13 AM | Add Comment

moving out

I started to moved out my entries from my babygwenks blog. I started to manually copy my entries from the blog and it was so overwhelming. I am happy that I made it before and I was able to document my motherhood on my early years. I wish I had more time to document the growth of all my children on that blog. I wish that I wrote more about their development and at the same time shared more pictures of them. They are young only once and I want them to see how they were when they were smaller.

So from now on, I'll make sure that I write an entry about them and their activities once a week. I'll make a schedule and I'll stick with it. I'll also post more pictures of them growing up. I need to do it. I need to bring life to this blog. This is only what I have, I might as well make the best of it

Posted by mari at Thursday, May 02, 2013 4:47 PM | Add Comment

music and me

One part of my achi's performance during her graduation is a song number for their parents exciting tascam.

Posted by mari at Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:52 AM | Add Comment

graduation gift for the little ones

I was thinking of giving the little kids gifts for their graduation. Initially, I thought I would give them something like joyjewelers.com for class rings

Posted by mari at Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:40 AM | Add Comment

my first graduation

It has been ages since I was a part of a Graduation Rite. I can't remember the feeling anymore.

This year is different. I am going up the stage again, not as a student but as a parent. The feeling is overwhelming (almost the same feeling when I was a bride

) I was having goosebumps while I was walking along the graduation area. I am overjoyed that my little girl finished her first year in school with flying colors. Being the youngest in her class and being so shy when she started school, I was not expecting her to compete well with her classmates. But she did it

Sitting on my chair, waiting for the program to start was like listening to the best flutes there could ever be. It was like having an orchestra playing on the background.

I am just thankful for the experience. I could have cried if my daughter didn't cry ahead of me

This is another story to share...

Posted by mari at Friday, March 29, 2013 4:23 AM | Add Comment

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