**This is a forwarded e-mail.

What a girl needs most is love. What a guy needs most is respect. The most important thing for a girl is her heart. For a guy its his ego.

Give your man his own time and space. Let him have his time for his friends, sports, family, self, and God. The relationship will grow old quickly if lagi kayong magkasama. Give him time to miss you and you’ll see how he will love you more. If the guy naman is obsessed and just wants to be with you all the time, tell him you can’t respect a “puppy” for long.

Do things differently anytime.Para kahit matagal na kayo, there is always something fresh and new. Variety is the spice of life. Exciting baga? Discover something you both like to do and enjoy it TWOgether. Doon naman sa mga bagay na magkaiba ang hilig nyo, compliment each other by learning about it kahit konti. If you love someone, yung effort nyo to try will go a looooong way to understand him later pag may disagreement kayo.

Pray with holding hands. Sounds corny noh? Maybe, but its very powerful.
Pag may takot sa Diyos ang partner mo, kampante ka na di ka nya lolokohin, because He knows God sees everything he does in secret. Ikaw na ang magkusa that Before you part after date, with hands held and eyes closed, pray to God to bless you two. Believe me it’s effective. Kailanman, di corny ang magdasal.

Believe in “Magic”. Kahit minsan di practical o walang logical na dahilan,
o matrabaho, o sounds crazy sa iba, do sweet little things for the one you love kahit magmukha ka ng timang. The memories will be fun to recall later in life. The corniest song o gift o letter ang laging kabog.

True love brings out the best in each other. Find something good in your
Partner and nurture it, encourage it and syempre, ENJOY it.

It’s healthy to fight. Doon nyo lang maaayos ang mga differences nyo at
natetest ang tatag ng relationship. Doon mo rin sya makikilala ng mabuti. Its called test of fire. Di mahalaga how dalas you fight. What matters is how often you make bati. Mas nakakatakot yung relasyong sobrang perfect at laging masaya. One big fight
and that’s it! And diba mas kilig yung malambing na… “uy, bati na tayo…”. But don’t overdo it. Kakapagod naman din na lagi na lang manuyo o magsori. Choose the battles na papatulan mo.

Daraan sa iba’t-ibang stages ang love especially pag matagal na kayo. Grow with it. Don’t expect him to be like nung una. ‘Coz like a student, di na ituturo sa grade 6 yung lessons na pang-grade 2. Change WILL happen… you both will change and your love WILL change too. It’s up to you na lang if the change will be for the better or for the worse. Life is about growth. Grow with it.

When break up comes and it’s time to say goodbye, don’t doubt the love just Because it didn’t last. May mga bagay sa buhay na di man nagtatagal, it doesn’t mean di na ito totoo. Some good things are just never meant to last forever. Okay lang yon.
Bless the parting and move on.

Expect tears, sorrow, sleepless nights and pain. Ika nga “it’s when you hurt the worse that you love the MOST.” Kung di ka willing masaktan, wag ka na lang magmahal.

Life is a balance. And love is both holding on and letting go. Know when to fight for your man or woman and when to let him go. God will guide you kung anong dapat gawin sa kung anong sitwasyon. So dapat mataas ang signal ng langit sa cellfone ng puso mo to know His wisdom.

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Blessing No.1:

Last night, I was counting pennies because it seems that we might run out of cold cash by the weekend.

Then came an aunt from the US who had my blog earnings. My aunt sent it to her to save on transaction fees.

Blessing No.2:

I then made a list of all payables and expenses and was quite disappointed that I might not have enough budget to get the decors this week.

Then a family friend arrived with a box full of goodies. Apparently, his nephew works in a major hotel and they dont use Christmas decorations twice. So we now have first class decors for our house (Di ko lang alam paano ikabit ang glass balls, baka mabasag! Ang gaganda pa ha. Parang di nagamit.)

Blessing No.3:

I have been wanting to replace our foam mattress since it has been making my back hurt. Kaso, as usual, laging kulang sa budget.

The family friend also had something. He gave us a KING SIZED foam mattress which was a reject from the same hotel. LOL. Now our room space has shrunk considerably pero mehn, pwede na magtumbling tumbling sa kama, LOL.

Galing ni Lord no?

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The househelp has arrived and I am back to work today. Everything back to normal? Hardly. I’ll miss the kids. The way Martha would make those funny faces and say “WOW!” everytime she sees food :). The way Matthew’s face lights up whenever he sees me standing and waiting for him at his school gate. It is as if he was mighty proud of me. Though I look forward to earning for the family again (I really didnt have time to blog and reserve assignments at home), I will miss cooking for my kids TRUE! I’ll not doing the laundry or not being able to go to the bathroom when I need to but I will miss this stress - this good kind of stress For now, it is back to the busy work force today. I have so many things to do (as always).

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Got this from Mich! Thanks Mich!

Let me tell you a crazy story I heard recently. There’s this husband who out of sheer love for his wife decided to prove it to her. So he swam the widest oceans, crossed the deepest rivers, and climbed the highest mountains to show his deep devotion to her. But in the end, she divorced him.

Why? Because he was never home.(Get it?)

Let me tell you an experience I had as a kid. One day, I asked Mom, “Why do my shoes keep eating my socks?” As a young boy, that was always a mystery for me. All my other classmates never had that problem. Their socks remained tight and high up their legs the entire day.

Mom didn’t answer my question but simply gave me two rubber bands which I dutifully placed around the top of my socks. To this day, fifteen years later, I still have permanent circle marks around my legs. But aside from giving me this slight defect, the two bands worked like magic.

It never occurred to me that Dad and Mom didn’t have the money to buy a new pair of socks for me. So I wore five-year-old socks, all soggy, grayish, and garter less. And yet amazingly, I never complained. I believe it was because Dad was always home when I needed him. Every night, after coming from work, we’d jog together, sit around, and talk about Tarzan, Farrah Fawcett Majors,God, and what I wanted to be when I grew up (a stockholder) . On Saturdays, we’d walk to Cubao, eat a hotdog-on-a- stick,and buy new rubber bands before going home.
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LOL.
A day without a blog post, wow, I think that was a first huh? Did you guys miss me or what?! HAHAHAHA!

For all you guys asking, yes, I am still alive (but not kicking). I am so freaking dead tired, grabe. The husband has been helpful don’t get me wrong but between cooking, tidying up the house (konting walis walis lang yan ha), keeping up with a toddler, coaching a gradeschooler on homework and WORK, my brain is so fried. When I sit in front of the computer by the time I have free time, my brain is so tired.

I have lots of commentaries though. And for curious minds, our first viand (naks) was pri-ka-knorr LOL. I just found out the maid didn’t iron uniforms so I had to squeeze them in. My kids love it, so that is all that matters anyway. Today is nilagang manok, LOL. You know what I discovered though? Matthew eats a ton during breakfast if you serve him sandwiches. We always had a hard time letting him eat breakfast because we serve him rice.Sandwich pala dapat. He loves the Gardenia pandesal (zero trans fat, whatever that means), ham, mayo and cheese. I discovered it when he ate THREE when we bought them at a Panwich stall in SM. So I decided to give it a try. Patok. Salamat sa Diyos, LOL.

Next week na talaga, leave ako promise. Di ko to kaya. I cant function efficiently at work. Im so buried with goals and evaluations needing to be done! HAGGARD!

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What do you - when the only time you have for yourself is when the kids are sleeping and the husband has relented that you take over the computer for once.

Will you scrap or go for the money (aka blog)?

Gaaaah.
I hate hate hate situations like these, because I most likely choose the right thing to do with a heavy heart.

The truth of the matter is - it’s all about the benjamins, my dear.
And this time, I think scrapping can wait.

PS. Thanks very much for the ideas on this post (If you still have ideas, please feel VERY free to share, LOL). I just went grocery shopping today (there goes the bill! Cha-Ching!), and hopefully I can cook later (Walang tulugan! ROFL!)

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Our househelp will now be gone for one week starting today! Ack (and to start things off, me and Edil got into a little quarrel early morning because I wasn’t allowed to go on a week long leave either!), so how do I pull it off? I have a gradeschooler and a toddler. I can do laundry during weekends. The main problem is COOKING. What can I cook that is EASY, nutritious, not requires to much time and just cooks by itself (ibig sabihin, isang bagsakan lang ng ingredients, LOL).

*sigh*
This is going to be a long week.
My only consolation is that there are only two school days left this week. And by next week, I can finally take a leave of absence from work.

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That’s the sales pitch of the tourism department for Amadeo, Cavite. The place we stay is about lands (farms?) aways from Figaro’s coffee farm. Right beside that is a horse ranch. Amadeo is a very rural county. Believe it or not, Meralco is just building its sub-station this year, and their main town doesn’t have Jollibee in it - you can mostly gauge the urbanity of a provincial town by the presence of fast food stores. The current prices of land for sale are very reasonable, but rumor has it land owners are holding back from selling since they are expecting a deluge of tourists coming in 2008. Our main goal is just to get a house there - three to four bedrooms, with a garage and garden, if you please. I still kick myself everytime I think about the three bedroom apartment which was huge which we let go - it was renting at four thousand pesos only! Would you believe?! Oh well, we cannot keep two houses at the same time, so we will begin the hunt again by December. By then, Matthew’s school is only three months away. I really wish we can have some big miracle next year that I’ll get loads of cash to transfer homes AND quit my job. Here’s to praying.

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I read this.

I was about to write a long rant about marital woes (Don’t we have it all?), specifically annoying traits from the SO (who doesnt seem very special right now), when I read that post from Amore.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

So Im going to slap my headphones on and listen to some pop music that can make me stomp my feet and can let me imagine I can still dance and move to the groove.

I hope I simmer down later.
Now Im going to be fiend at work.
I hope your day is better because mine just sucks (for now).

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I came home to a silent house - no screaming toddler nor the Marimar soundtrack blaring from the PC’s speakers. Martha is off to Amadeo with my sisters who will spend the week there because it is my Dad’s birthday tomorrow - wow 57. We honestly though he wouldnt last a year after 55, so every year after it we celebrate it really well. I would’ve gone tonight but the big brother needs to go to school tomorrow.

I’m happy with the temporary relief. I can sit for a while, change my clothes leisurely before a toddler’s grubby hands is pulling my hands to carry her. Or even blog (like this).

I miss the chaos though. Five minutes upon arriving home, Im surrounded with noise - Martha trying to overtake Matthew’s kwentos about school, with the big brother showing me his school work and perfect tests, Edil telling me what is “our schedule” tonight (LOL, like which episode of which TV series we need to watch), and even the maid reporting to me how the day went and what expenses occurred in the household.

Well, tonight, it’s as if the Princess’ going away made the house and household empty.
I guess I have time to scrap then, and blog, and then get our room in order. Teka, ang panganay nanghihingi ng atensyon.

I guess it never stops.

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I tried to be a home maker and cooked last Sunday. Since I knew the kids love spaghetti (and even me and my siblings) and that’s the only thing I know how to cook really well, I cooked spaghetti. I bought chicken drumsticks but since we were late in buying it from the grocery, the chicken was served during lunch. Dinner na lang si spaghetti.

So I cook. And I was proud. And then like the commercial, I say, “Kainan na!”

So the kids get to the table and Matthew says, “Yay! Spaghetti!” Martha just dove her hand into the noodles. (You would not believe the kid - sya lang ang bata di na kelangan tawagin. As soon as she sees the table is being set, aakyat na yan sa silya at maghihintay ng pagkain nya. She is 70% eating by herself already - knowing how to handle spoons well na.)

And then Edil sits. He looks at the spaghetti and then asks the maid, “May chicken pa?”

Syempre wala na.
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Happy weekday
Today is technically my Monday - because I have Sundays and Mondays off.

Saturday, after work, we went straight to Amadeo because my parents wanted to treat Matthew out for being first in class, and borrow Martha for a week until we get out house in order (Remember our maid left, leaving us with only one - with two kids, and parents working full time, there was nobody to do the laundry, mop the floors, etc. She got her hands full with Martha alone!). Plus, the weather has been hot lately so I decided Martha might flare up again with an attack so even if we will miss the brat, it was better for her.

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I promised a pictured-filled post didn’t I?
(Plus, I’m sorry if I haven’t posting long entries lately, I really am pissed off with my comments - I’d like to read comments when I do posts! LOL)

Anyway, I just would like to show you beautiful people:

My mom.

Ain’t my mom so elegant and classy and beautiful?! She is turning 57 this year and you would not even know the difference. Their family line ages so gracefully. I just wish I can get that trait from her LOL.

My husband.

Of course, my husband needed to tell me to take pictures of him with different poses (VAIN!) LOL. These were taken in my cousin’s debut. It was a beautiful party.

Her party’s theme was vintage rock - and Bloomfields was the band for the night (a mix of Beatles, and oldies rock classics - the elders and hippie young generation enjoyed it!). Her colors were blue and brown and I love her centerpiece decorations! She got what I originally wanted for my pink and brown wedding before!

I bought the pail home. Suprisingly, the roses and miliflores have not wilted since Saturday. I want to plan weddings again! There is so much new stuff that can be used in making wedding details grabe!!

This is supposed to be an DOF shot with us clear and the flowers blurry - but my brother didnt know how to do it - the result - a totally blurry picture LOL. I like it though. (Kasi mukha ko lang ang kita! HAHAHA!)

And of course, I dont have any decent picture of myself - I felt too fat (well, I AM FAT! LOL) and too busy cramming to try to learn manual settings of the camera - I failed miserably, LOL. Oh well. There is always a next time.

Here are some shots of my wide self At least I *think* I looked decent. LOL.

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Thanks to Kaboodle, I found a very neat idea at the Pottery Barn.

*sigh*
If only I can have something like that on my wall…well, technically, I dont have that wall (yet), but I think I will really assert myself on getting a space like that when we are on our own.

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We celebrated our third year of being married civilly on June 3rd.
And we forgot.
We dont celebrate the day we got legally married, as we place more importance that we were binded together in Church on the 24th. But Edil said earlier, “Grabe, three years na rin no?”

It seems like forever.
And we meant that in a good way :).

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