We love and hate each other.

Whatever one wants, the other one needs to get.

Last Saturday, we almost made our Mommy cry.

We were wrestling in the bed and having the time of our lives. But I got tired and talked to Tita Abbie. I love talking to her, she talks to me. Martha obviously got jealous of the attention and jumped on me – landing on her knees, smack down on my face, hitting my nose.

It hurt. I tried to laugh it off but I ended up crying.

I got hysterical when my nose bled.

Martha, upon seeing blood, said, “Eeeeeewwwww”.

I have a black spot on the bridge of my nose. I so want to punch Martha but that should come at a later time when Mommy is not looking.

For now, kunwari OK kami.

Matthew.

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Im sorry for spacing out on you for most of the week: I have perfectly perfect reasons for doing so

1. Im on my own. Well, we are on our own – me, and two kids under age 7. I let my maids go last Monday (it was a mutual decision), so my me time has been severely compromised, especially with our router taking the perfect timing to die. (Bad CD-R King!) Before you sing me praises, let me add a disclaimer: Im so scared of mumu and robbers and with me and the two kids in a big house, we bummed at my parents’. Im sharing internet access with my youngest sister who is severely obsessed with Japanese actors so yes, internet time is compromised too.

2. Martha got sick. She was poo-ing around 5-10 times a day for three straight days (started on Monday). She lost a lot of weight but did not get dehydrated nor had a fever, thankfully. I made sure to keep her hydrated and stuffed food into her mouth every chance I can get. Buti na lang likas na matakaw tong anak ko. She was still active the whole time too. Yun nga lang, tambay kami sa bathroom lagi (I would have blogged in the bathroom if we had the router, grrrrrr.)

3. Since we have no maid, I have been preparing Matthew for school. I still wake up at 4:30AM but instead of me turning on the laptop to start my day, I head off the fridge to think what would Mato’s breakfast be. Complete lifestyle change I tell you. Hahaha. (And no I still havent been cooking, I have the toaster to toast bread, make hotdogs and the micowave to reheat rice and leftover food from dinner)

4.If most of you have visited my food and health blog (naks, kunwari), you might remember I blogged about joining an online version of the Biggest Loser among my digiscrap friends. Week 1 I did good but Week 2 has had me groping for control. Staying at my mom’s is not helping because we have great food and I have a Dad who loves to eat. Isang aya ko lang nun kumain, lalabas na kami. Either that or sya ang magaaya. Im trying to psych myself that I can still bounce back so holding myself accountable has helped me a great deal (so does drinking liters and liters of water). You can view my chronicles here.

5. I blogged about a big secret two weeks ago, and I consider it such a great accomplishment to be able to keep it for two weeks. Hahaha. Glo had known it since its planning stage and the MBAPs (and Jen) knew it just this week. Nope, no pregnant. Nope, Edil didnt resign and transfer work (we are not that crazy YET). Nope, no work for me too. See my secret here.

6. Lastly, I just love this month: 08.08. July has got to be my least favorite of all months (bad memories) but August is among my top five favorite months. Since I just love the number 08.08 and my 365 Project never saw its fruition, Im going to be doing my own Photo a Day for 08.08. I have always wanted to be able to capture everyday life – in its truest form, and I want to be able to capture the nonsense things that happen to us everyday. I have steered away from months that have celebrations of some sort, so August will be perfect. I know I can do it — because I did my Christmas Album for 31 straight days and didnt miss a day! Matthew and Edil still look at the album from time to time. Im not going to go Shutterfly this time but will be doing it simpler. You can read about my project here, I hope you can join!

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(July 20-27)

Im getting so bad at taking pictures lately. It doesnt help that it is always raining (so hard, I might add) lately. Days are always blah and grey.

The only highlight of the week was cutting Martha’s hair and Edil approving it (She looked cute but extremely naughty daw). I guess lalo na kaming di pupunta sa Cuts for Tots nyan (Hehehe)

We have been experiencing loooooong brownouts lately. One started at 6AM and ended at 5PM. It’s a good thing my Mom is just a ride away I got to bum and talk with her all those hours. Plus hindi naman mainit so taking care of the princess wasnt a problem.

We were also busy with construction of the secret Im keeping. Nope, it’s not a business nor our own house (I wish it was). You will find out soon. I will be busy with everything this week plus our router broke so Im stuck at one place again (lesson learned – invest na talaga on a Linksys. LOL).

Blogging wise, I think there is always a commotion every time Google updates PRs. I was hit, but as always, couldnt care less. Im proud to say I earn while blogging ~ it feeds my family and lets me stay home. How big or small isnt going to matter anymore ~ I just pray it will always be enough. So far, so good.

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I guess I already have given you a weekly recap of last week with this post, just imagine that being replayed day after day last week and you can see why I was thisclose to losing my mind (I lost my patience a hundred times actually).

The weekend was quite relaxing. Watched two Disney movies: Ratatouille and Kung Fu Panda. We were supposed to go to the mall so we can do groceries but the brakes of the vehicle was being wonky so we just bummed around my parents’ place. Pigged out (as usual). Went to mass. And worked. Toink. THAT will never happen again.

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The weekend was fun nice but tiring, majority of which was spent where my parents stay.

Saturday we went swimming. There was a private pool resort just opened to the public (and which my mom is going to partially manage in case of bookings). I need to take pictures of it as we will advertise it soon. Anyways, my son has been constantly bugging me for a swim but the past few weeks have been rainy so we werent able to push through with our plans. Now, come Saturday morning with sun up, the kids were awake as early as 7AM. I normally sleep in Saturday morning because Edil is home and there is no school so imagine how irritated I was hehehe.

So we went swimming right in the middle of sun at its brightest – 1PM. We had the entire pool to ourselves so I was able to swim (in my swimming suit, bwahahaha). Too bad I was busy enjoying swimming that I forgot to take (many) pictures.

Martha miraculously enjoyed the water. (Maybe because the sun made the water lukewarm) – she didnt scream “Lammmmid!” and in fact was in and out of the water all the time. She would go out to pee and even, as she say, “rest lang Ma-tha ha, wait.” and then shed go up the kubo to get coke. My baby is now a little girl na talaga, bulol lang.

Matthew was his usual very makulit self. I am at this point where Matthew’s tantrums are not cute and understandable anymore and he is at the point where he doesnt know if he wants to be babied or treated as an adult. When you do it one way, he goes the other way. Argh, signs of pre-puberty I know. It’s causing me and Edil a headache.

Anyhow, it was enjoyable nonetheless. The kids were burned and were dead tired that Martha slept right after taking a bath and woke up at 10PM! (Aba eh, tinulugan ko sya, hehehe, andun naman ung tatay!)

Sunday was spent at my parents again (Masarap food dun eh, LOL) bumming around. We heard mass, made pasyal around the grounds at the Shrine and took pictures of the Retrievers we will help on selling.

More pictures at my Flickr.

Good weekend. Sa uulitin

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(June 30 – July 4)

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In this case, it happened on a rainy cloudy and cold day.
And we went ice cream eating at the LakeHouse after

Steak. Spaghetti. Potato Balls. Salad.
Church. FIC. DVDs. Pictures.
Priceless.

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*My titles seem boring these days.

Since the maids took the weekend off and they were gone since Friday morning, I was so tired by Friday night. Edil was kind enough to give in and get us all out the two days of the weekend (He also got his bonus kasi, hehehe).

Saturday was spent at the mall, we took the kids out, ate pizza, pasta and fries. Edil got me the router. Matthew got new PJs (the kids need to be in PJs when they sleep, it’s sort of tradition already here in my house. Matthew’s PJ’s were looking like capris already, LOL). He also got new undies which were printed. Martha got a potty training seat. So far, she has been staying in undies all day save for the time we go out, but she still tells me she needs to go. It’s a pain because she still wants to make wiwi on the toilet when she has diapers on – I think Im not ready for the busy-ness of potty training, hehehe. But yes, girls are easier to potty train – Martha was so effortless to train. In fact, I dont even tell her she goes straight to the potty when waking up after coming to me to take her pampers off! Once she does number 2 on the potty, wooohooo, Im going to be one proud mommah! She also switched to NIDO full time and we havent had any problems (We save at least 50% of our current milk expenses. Salamat anak, hahaha).

While Edil was paying bills, I checked the kids in at the playhouse. Walang kapaguran. Matthew was all over the place. When I went out to withdraw some money, the one in charge reviewed the slips and panicked when she saw Martha was just two and she had no listed guardian! She was busy riding the different toy horses with saddles! Matthew told her, “Matanda na po yan magisip eh” Hehehe. (Im sure Id get raised eyebrows here but believe when I say that the ATM machine was just on the next store )

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