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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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On The Loose: My Trips to West Elm & Ikea

On the East Bay, across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, is a little town called Emeryville. I don’t know much about the town except that just by the freeway is a shopping center called Bay Street. Shops such as Apple and Sephora are here, as well as many restaurants. But for me, there’s a [...]

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Le Critique: Homemaker’s Toys: Samsung 3D LED TV 8000

I don’t know if a TV is really a homemaker’s toy as it does not help me make my home. But, I’m a homemaker, and this is Chef’s and my new toy. In truth I would say we’ve earned this TV. We’ve been living together for 4 years and since we moved in, we’ve always [...]

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Le Critique: Homemaker’s Toys: LG Washer/Dryer

Lovely ladies, allow me to be a homemaker a bit, because believe me, I wish I could have read something like this when we were shopping for our major appliances. I hate doing laundry. And, I’m bad at it. As a lot of people from the Philippines, I did not bother about laundry because in [...]

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Taking the Kitchen Challenge and Then Some

This initiative did not start with the desire to learn how to cook. It’s really not a Julie & Julia kind of thing of honing your skills. It’s not about the fact that homemakers must know her way in the kitchen (but I still agree). This goal started with the house rule that whoever doesn’t [...]

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First Time Home-Buying: The Closing and The Keys

I should be almost done with my first time home-buying posts. The title should signify that. I’ll probably still post about the moving though because in that post, I can get nostalgic. Today, I just put away all my homeowner’s documents away, all the documents that I received from that Escrow lady when we signed. [...]

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Homesick

There is so much about moving to a different country than just getting yourself familiar with your surroundings and getting homesick. There is a lot more about it when the sudden change of scenario shows no resemblance at all of the things that you are used to. I grew up in one of the metro [...]

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First Time Home-Buying: The Signing

The Signing process is not the same as the Closing process. I did not know that until we were about to sign. I had this big misconception that the big day, the signing, was the end of the home-buying process, when I will get the keys and be allowed to move-in. So, what I thought [...]

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Movers and Shakers

I am honestly too tired and too busy to blog. We spent almost the entire weekend moving stuff from Ms B and Chef’s old apartment to their new house! I was there when she moved in to the apartment 5 years ago, back when we were young(er) and she was starting a career with this [...]

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First Time Home-Buying: The Walkthrough

The walkthrough was a task made for me. The other day, we had our walkthrough for our new house where, because the house is under warranty for one year, we focused only on the cosmetics. During the walkthrough, I had all the qualities I have on my resume at full-force: thorough, keen attention to detail, [...]

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Le Critique: Kitchen Toys: Aerolatte

Before I begin, I think I need a name for my husband because too much use of ‘my husband’ is not quite pleasing on an essay. So, we shall call him Chef, which is one of the many things that he is. Anyway, since Chef, who was my then boyfriend, moved in with me, we [...]