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Mommy Adventures: Packing for Four

There was a time when, believe it or not, I actually loved packing. Perhaps, it was the promise of adventure that came with it that got me into the activity. The fact that we had our ever reliable Manang Virgie to take care of the unpacking after the trip was always a pleasure. In fact, I [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Crush by Dave Matthews Band

A year ago from today, Chef and I tied the knot in Caleruega, a quaint chapel on top of the hill in Tagaytay, Philippines. This was 4 months after our civil wedding in San Francisco. Ms C helped me plan the wedding while she was in Manila part of the time and I was in [...]

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Music and Lyrics: I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Death Cab for Cutie

Much to my annoyance sometimes, Chef always watches what I eat. He says it’s because he wants me to live a long life. Chef and I have the Brangelina age gap, and I am praying with all I have and I am that we will grow old together. I take comfort in knowing that he [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Only You (Theme from The Young Victoria) – Sinead O’Connor

Quite similar to my love for the French culture is my curiosity for the British monarchy. This started when I studied world literature. From Jane Austen and Emily Bronte, romance in the English countryside of men and women with ranks and titles. And how I love period films. So, I just watched The Young Victoria, simply the sovereign [...]

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Blinks: One Year Ago

One year ago from today, Chef and I legalized our commitment to each other and our relationship. Our civil wedding was held in the beautiful San Francisco City Hall. It was humble compared to the church wedding that we had three months later. We got up, made breakfast, I did my own hair and make-up, [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Angel – Jack Johnson

Who doesn’t love Jack Johnson? I mean come on, those awesome lyrics, fabulous voice, and he’s a surfer dude. No but really, he’s one of my favorites because he’s my kind of lyricist – and by my kind of lyricist I mean the Dave Matthews kind of lyricist. So, his (or their – with Dave) [...]

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11th

So, our 11th year begins. The dawn of a new decade. We both pledged to start it right even if we’re not together. Today, after our chat, I got up (not after answering a couple of messages from Ms B) and worked out. My routine was temporarily disturbed last week as Captain Awesome and I [...]

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Music and Lyrics: Swing Life Away – Rise Against

This is the song that one of my SILs played during our AVP at our wedding. It’s not really our theme song, but it’s something we somehow can relate to. Happy anniversary, Um! I am so proud of the us that we have become.

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Missing Noisy Halls

And this week came and went. I have been absent this week because the preparations for our house blessing amidst work and having an 8-year old boy in the house actually takes time, which I first thought I could just wing it. This week, we finally completely unpacked from our move 3 months ago; we’ve [...]

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Moving Posts: Being a Mom

I thought of reviving my old blog and I ended up reading my old entries. It was January of 2009 that I last updated. It felt longer than that. I did blog so incoherently; I realized that kind of blog writing, err, style is so me. I thought I was reviving it for a specific [...]

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The Week with Captain Awesome

Well, it’s nothing grand. The week was filled with ordinary days made extraordinary with non-stop talking since the airport. And he arrived exactly 7 days ago. LOL It’s great to be hearing his husky binata voice and super contagious laughter. I know I miss all of them so so much, but it was when he [...]