Little joys

I am planning to start my regular "little joys" journal every week. My intention is to constantly remind myself that happiness doesn't have to come in big packages. I also want to be always reminded to be grateful for being alive, for being able to do what I wanted to do alone or with my loved ones.

So starting today, I will count my blessings.


My officemate Rico gave these to me upon his return from a seminar in Baguio. Super love.

This was in Sta. Rosa, just across Nuvali. We brought the kids to see this awesome Christmas Tree and House of Santa. Nice.
Happiness din na makita the bagets were in awe seeing this giant and marvelous Christmas tree.
Pictyur dito, piktyur doon.

If there is one fastfood that hubby and I love it"s Wendy's. Bacon mushroomelt, Coke zero and later on DQ ice cream (sorry Frosty). Da best!

We went to a bazaar (read: high end bazaar) in Alabang yesterday. We got Sarah her Christmas outfit. Happy na naman si bebe. We brought so much joy also to the bagets!

Finally, I got to replace our old but super loved red plate chargers. Buti na lang malapit na ang Pasko, i had the reason to buy a replacement. Gourdo's has nice plate chargers, of various colors. Now they have the "Christmasy" plate and plate chargers.

Whenever I am in Gourdo's I feel that I am in a different world. Parang high ang feeling ko. hahaha. exaggerated ba? Lumalabas ang pag ka Martha Stewart pag nasa Gourdo's ako.

Pag Good Day coffee Good day talaga! available na din sa Puregold. dati sa S&R at Shopwise ko lang ito nabibili. Thank you Puregold!

The ultimate happiness was finding a refilled Bien Etre in Zonta Bazaar.
I asked many times the ingleserang tindera if they had the big bottle pero wala na daw. huhuhu. Single pa ako nun magsimulang  maghanap ng Bien etre. So you could imagine how happy I was upon finding this. Eureka! ang dating.Although sad ako dahil wala nang malaki, pero super super happy rin dahil meron akong 2 bottles.
Hindi ba talaga namang Happiness in a Bottle ito?

till next week.
Writing this "little joys" is now one of my motivations to be happy and grateful even in the minutest things that come along. Siguro effort sa unang bahagi until later on maging mindset ko na ito. Pag laging happy, healthy for the mind, healthy for the body. When there is always gratitude in your heart, blessings are easy to come :)

Another Year

Tomorrow I will be on leave because I am celebrating my 39th birthday. Life is not short, life is fast. Don't you think so? I will be 40 next year but I don't feel like I have aged that much. naks! Maybe age is really just a number.

I'm never big on celebrating my birthday.Although, when we were in grade school, my mother would always prepare a simple chiffon cake that she made, pancit and (dirty) ice cream.I don't remember anymore if there were visitors. But those moments now form part of my happy childhood. Thank you Mame! (Mommy).

In my own family now, we are not into big celebrations. Birthdays, anniversaries and other milestones are usually quiet, simple and just us. So tomorrow, I plan to just be home. In the afternoon, hubby and I will go to Xavier School to get application for my highschooler next year. See, really life is running fast. Soon, I will have a tweener. How is that?

So nothing really special tomorrow.. I have already received my gift - my dream ballet shoes from Naturalizer. Mababaw ano?

                                                         

But birthdays wont be complete without making a wish. :)

I only have one, and it sums up everything, I guess.

"May the kind of life that I have now continue as long as I live."

God Bless Everyone!!!

For sale din?

hindi po sya binebenta. naipon na sya sa office. feeling ko extension ng bahay ang admin. kulang na lang magdala ako ng shoe rack. actually, namana ko lang naman ito kay alelie at sa Budget Officer sa Makati Office.

all "occasions" present except pang ulan at pang sports.

Postscript

A postscript to my blog "Lucky and Lovely"

It is my birthday month and I am getting "little surprises" already.

as i have mentioned, this is pearl is from Ms. Pearl.:) thanks again po.

last Monday, Mai called up to ask if we could meet in the evening. You see, Mai is my only social life in Batangas City - family and social life combined. she gave me this! so sweet. she knows my weakness - kakuriputan at asa sa bigay. hehehehe. thank you. love you cuzin.

this one belongs to eyen, unused and still sealed. but when i got home last Monday i saw this on top of my drawer. his sister gave it to me (although I had to insist that i pay). alam din yata na may pag ka vain ako at mahilig mag kulapol sa mukha ng kung ano ano. thank you sis.

there are no little things as long as they come from the heart.

Thank you.

lucky and lovely

when i came home last Friday, i received a lovely gift from a friend (hubby's  officemate based in Palawan).

it's a pearl necklace.

 but i had to exert little effort to "organize" the necklace.

I had to open the oyster to get that cute little pearl actually inside the oyster.

i had to take out the pearl from that oyster (wala na un pearl kasi na excite ako masyado, late na ng marealize ko to take photo) and made a wish. wow! it was magical to me!
and to think it was a gift.

thank you po.

my comfort food etc

one of my comfort foods is ice cream - this flavor and vanilla almond.

i crave on these two when I am tired, alone and busted (whatever that means).

I've had this for three weeks already. no one dares touch this. it's mine, everyone knows. if it's cookies and cream then its for everybody. :)
what about you? what do you love eating when you are blue?

fruits naman are for Anjo.
she knows that she gets sick easily so she has learned to love fruits. she has a paranoid Mama who wants blood sample immediately when someone in the family has fever.
Anjo already felt the excruciating pain of injection, many times. she tells me that every year she goes to the hospital for blood extraction to check what her illness is. so Anjo doesn't eat what are bawal to her: chips and  coke.
This is her and Papa's one week supply of fruits.

                                          (aside from being a fruit lover, anjo loves dog too.)

Abi loves spaghetti. he claims "the old spaghetti house" is the best for him. ouch! but he eats my spaghetti with gusto. he even helps.

last sunday was sooo delicioso. neighbor Mariel gave us turon. hmmnnnnn.yummy! my mission next Saturday is to teach my angels how to make turon with cheese.

no wonder i am so fat nowadays. all i wanted to do is eat, eat and eat. Oh God! Please help me.Christmas is near and i'm sure i would look so "lechon" on photos. Oppsssss, we still have a wedding on December 1. Is a lace dress still possible? I dont think so. :(
well, well, well...

sarah & jr

it was supposedly an arranged "marriage".

but you see, even if they were just dogs, we humans could not force "something" that simply was not meant to be.

Months ago, my officemate and i agreed to be in laws by arranging their union.

but look! it didn't work.

it was obvious!

i guess just like what happened to other people, these two were better off as friends and not lovers.

JR was playful being single

and our Sarah was happier without a roomie.

JR became so stressed after spending (sleepless, maybe) night with Sarah. sobrang nakakaawa his breathing. Me and my children alternately carried him but still he was panting. So we decided to bring him home instead. :(
Oh JR!

big na

"there are times when i still get surprised;  I look at them and realize that they are no longer babies."

goodbye vase

Yesterday when I got home, I received a text message from DJ.

Kuya:    Mama, the vase is broken.
Me:       what vase? the nice one?

                   (good thing I still have a photo of that vase in my phone)

Kuya: Yes.
Me:    (died)
Me:    who broke it?
Kuya: I did accidentally.

(the he explained to me what they were doing in the house)

Me:    (good kid. it was easy for him to admit mistakes without offering excuses)

Me:    oh Kuya, but that was a gift! but thank you for admitting your mistake, but can't you say  
           sorry to  me?
Kuya: Sorry Mama.
Me:    Ok.

End of the drama.

But it really broke my heart when i heard what happened to the vase. it was a souvenir from a previous, previous, previous Plant Manager.Now I could understand why i am sometimes asked if I spank my children when they break something precious in the house.

So I did some reflection before going to sleep.

If I was there last night, would I spank DJ?
No, because if I spank, then I wont be able to differentiate anymore to him what act is punishable and what is not punishable.The act was clearly not deliberate. It would have been different if DJ threw it out of anger or naughtiness.

oh well, there is nothing much left to me now but to scout for a possible replacement. :( sniff...sniff...sniff...