Refreshing, even if I say nothing at all

Back to Blogging (with a vengeance!), Spot.ph and 88DB.com

Hear ye, hear ye!

Youngest son, Alan Jr who after enjoying a food tour to Trinoma (on 25 April) and Bonifacio High Street and Serendra (on 29 April) arranged by Spot.ph, has returned to blogging, and with a vengeance! What also inspired him to write again is his great penchant for the Rubik’s cube. He can [...]

Summer Fun: Do the Groove, Take Review and Summer Classes, or Just Stay Home

It’s now really summer—it’s hot! it sizzles. And the children cannot stay put at home. Just like in the summers past, when the kids went for workshops—from painting lessons, to dance, theater, violin, gymnastics, voice (or is it boys for the girls? lol), etc., this year they have their summer almost planned up.

Joining workshops [...]

Meiji BLACK Chocolate Bar Puzzle SOLVED! Challenge Level–Most Difficult

One fine day, daughter Monica brought home a puzzle—the Meiji BLACK chocolate bar puzzle. It already took her a whole day of fun…in the end frustration, in her friend’s house to solve the puzzle. The tiles should fit together to form a rectangle—the BLACK chocolate bar. All her siblings tried solving the puzzle, [...]

Happy 17th Birthday, Angela

Today 19 March, sweet 16 daughter Angela (Chato to many), turns 17. Sweet, just the same, but somehow something has changed—not much, but it’s there. One year has added a bit of, shall we say, wisdom. More of caring for friends and family. More of being aware of the happenings around her, more empathy, perhaps? [...]

Happy Slip: Experience Philippines! Episode 1 is here.

Hear ye, hear ye!

Happy Slip has posted her first of six videoblogs, entitled Experience Philippines! It was posted on 14 March. True to her name—an Ambassadress by the Dept of Tourism. Makes one proud to be Filipina!

Rubik’s Cube–Fun for others, a test of patience to some

4 of my 7 kids LOVE the Rubik’s cube, in fact are addicted to it—Vince, Alan Jr, Pauline and Angela. It came naturally with Vince, who can solve the puzzle in less than a minute, while Alan, Jr was inspired by Marcelle. The girls, Pauline and Angela were inspired by Alan, Jr. who became their [...]

Cakes, cakes and cakes

In our family of 7 kids and 2 baby grand daughters and an angel in heaven, we have a reason to celebrate every month:

January for our wedding anniversary (28 years now)
and Baby Cate’s birthday (she is 3)
February for my birthday
March for Angela’s birthday (she’ll be 17)
April for BA’s birthday (he’ll be 20)
May for Pauline’s birthday [...]

Sexy Mom’s FamPics: Learning

It’s the first Monday of March, and for PinoyMomsNetwork, it is the day to publish FamPics. For March, the theme is LEARNING. Here are my FamPics:

These adorable young monks were sent to the monastery early in their lives. It is not uncommon in Bhutan to send young kids for LEARNING the Bhuddist way of life. [...]

Gold for the Golden

Oh yes! The Golden deserves only the Gold. And what have I got? A Golden Retriever—we named her Mucci or Moochie. Her original name was Raisin because her eyes looked like raisins and her other 8 siblings were named Butterscotch, Cinnamon, etc.), but the kids thought she deserved a name that is cuddly, cute [...]

Happy Birthday to Me. Am 50! Am 50! Am 50!

I have postponed writing this piece till the last moment, as words would not form to catch that truly awesome feeling of turning gold—a milestone in my life.

Years ago, I would have dreaded turning 50, imagined myself to be gray and weary, old and cranky, wobbly and wrinkly. It was always a guessing game when [...]

WYSIWYG with Happy Slip

By now, Christine Gambito aka Happy Slip would have been back to the USA. But definitely, she has left a mark in the hearts of many Filipinos—those who have known her just recently (through her trips around the country and TV guestings) or to the many who have been her fans for a long time [...]

« go back — keep looking »