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Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Caffeine Click Test

It's Sunday once again so it means it family time for us. Nothing much really happened today. Asusual we went for a visit at my grandparent's place with the kids. Symone had a real fun time playing with her lolas there while my 2 month old Liam prefers to sleep the whole day.

We went at Southmall for Symone's graduation dress and shoes. It's kinda tiring browsing diffrent dresses and shoes but it's all worth it coz I found one blue dress that was placed on sale. The original price was 1,200 pesos and it went down to 450 pesos only.

Symone's graduation will be on the 2nd day of April and we are all excited.


Anyway, it's way almost midnight but before I go to bed I took this test....


The Caffeine Click Test - How Caffeinated Are You?
Created by OnePlusYou - Free Online Dating


I better sleep now.... have so much to do tommorrow.


GOODNIGHT!



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Friday, March 28, 2008

Feast One Hundred and Eighty Five

MY FEAST IS NOW SERVED





Appetizer

What does the color dark green make you think of?


-My baby's stroller which we always bring anywhere


Soup

How many cousins do you have?


-I have 6 cousins on my father side and 10 cousins on my mother side. I have 16 first cousins all in all


Salad

On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how honest are you?


-I think 9... as much as possible I try to be honest because I hate people who tell lies all the time


Main Course

Name something that is truly free.


-My family's love, My kids laughter, My hubby's love and God's guidance


Dessert

Using the letters in the word SPRING, write a sentence.

-I'd rather not have my dessert, I'm full na.... HAHAHA!!!! I cant think of a better one! :)



Click HERE for Friday's Feast main page




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My Statement of Gratitude

There are so many things things in my life that I am grateful for. For 30 plus years of my life God has blessed me with so many things.

I am grateful that I am living a very peaceful life. A life that I have never dreamed I could have. A life full of happiness and contentment.

We may not be that rich but I can say that we have enough to live comfortably and I am so thankful for that.

I am grateful having a family who never fails to love me unconditionaly. My parents who is always there for me. My sister who is also my bestfriend, My husband who never gets tired of understanding and loving me inspite of my all my mood swings.

And lastly, I am so grateful that inspite of having a PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) God blessed me with two wonderful kids who gave so much meaning to my life.

And with all these blessings, I couldnt ask for more.


You can post your own "STATEMENT of GRATITUDE" on your own site and copy the following statement at the end of your post.


And now I am tagging Liza, Jona, BlueStar, Beth and Prily




*Start Copy*
In order to be able to achieve and maintain happiness we need to, actively, be able to do two things:
Complain and then let go (Dump the baggage, the roadblocks to happiness.)
Express Gratitude (The open expression of gratitude promotes happiness.)
After all everyone has something to be grateful for and/or something to complain about. If you would like to share, please follow the appropriate link and do so: "Are You Grateful?", "Complain Complain Complain."

Add your name to the current List of Contributors: 1-Attitude, the Ultimate Power 2-Max 3-DianaCA's Metamorphoses 4-Mental Poo 5-My Thoughts 6-Baba Doodlius 7-Wake Up America 8-Life is a Roller Coaster 9-Life is beautiful 10- Proud Mommy
*End Copy*



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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Liam's 2nd Month

My son Liam is already 2 months old today! How time flies... It seems like yesterday when I gave birth to him.


this is Liam when he was just a couple of minutes old only








and here he is, now that he is already 2 months.









Looking at my children's pictures made me realize that in no time they will be grown ups. It's sad to think that one day I have to let them go and have their own lives but I know that no matter what happens they will always be my very own little angels. Hubby and I are very thankful that God blessed us with two very beautiful kids who made our lives more than just perfect.







I LOVE YOU SYMONE AND LIAM!!!!



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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

EARTH HOUR 2008

Hey, I just signed up to the new Earth Hour website for 2008 and I thought you might like to take a look and possibly sign up too. Earth Hour is on 29 March 2008 at 8pm, and it looks like it's going to be really big. So far, as well as Sydney, there'll also be Adelaide, Atlanta, Bangkok, Brisbane, Canberra, Chicago, Christchurch, Copenhagen, Dublin, Manila, Melbourne, Montreal, Odense, Ottawa, Perth, Phoenix, San Francisco, Suva, Tel Aviv, Toronto and Vancouver all turning off their lights for an hour in the name of fighting global warming. And I'm sure there'll be more cities by March. Sign up for Earth Hour with me by visiting http://www.earthhour.org/user/9Ijm
and join the movement.






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Monday, March 24, 2008

What Flavor Frappuccino Are You?




Caffe Vanilla Frappuccino



Smooth and sweet, you fit in to almost any crowd. No one would suspect you of being a coffee tweaker!



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Sunday, March 23, 2008

FEAST ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR



This Friday's five featured question at FRIDAY'S FEAST

I will try to answer their questions every Friday and I will post it here.



Appetizer

Given the choice, would you prefer to live in the country or in the city?
=in the city


Soup

Who is the cutest kid you know?
=Symone and Liam, my kids


Salad

Fill in the blank: I couldn’t believe it when I heard ___________.
=I'll be having a C-section after 12 hours of labor... this is when I gave birth last january




Main Course


If you could star in a commercial for one of your favorite products, which one would you want to advertise?
=my Liam's diaper, DRYPERS... hahaha!
after buying and trying almost all the diapers in the market Drypers is the best so far.




Dessert


What type(s) of vitamins and/or supplements do you take on a regular basis?
=Iron Supplement(IBERET), Caltrate Plus and Clusivol
I have to take all those! i don't wanna get sick




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Saturday, March 22, 2008

My Disclosure Policy

This policy is valid from 22 March 2008


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This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content may not always be identified.


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Friday, March 21, 2008

I'm Back!

Long time no post! I've been out for a couple of days. My daughter was confined at the hospital for 3 days due to Urinary Track Infection. Im so damn worried about her.
She's been through so many test. It's very painful for a Mom to see her child in pain. If I could only take all the pain she has suffered, if I could only shield her from all the pains.....I WOULD







Anyway my child is well and up again... thank God!
And I'm back in blogging again



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Sunday, March 16, 2008

The I's from Beth

Got a tag from Beth


I AM… devoted christian, a loving daughter, a faithful wife, a loyal friend and a PROUD MOM
I WANT….to have an 8 hours of straight sleep... hehehe!
I HAVE.. a very happy and contented life
I HATE…needles, cockroaches, liars, rock musics etc.
I FEAR…death
I SEARCH…for Dr. Brown Feeding Bottles for my son
I REGRET…nothing
I LOVE….my family so much
I ALWAYS…thought of going to Dubai to visit my sister
I AM NOT…a liar
I DANCE…very well everytime I'm playing my favorite online dancing game (AUDITION)
I SING…though my hubby hates it... hahaha!
I CRY…when i watch a very good and heartwarming movies
I WRITE…all my emotions and toughts in my diary
I WON…my hubby's love
I AM CONFUSED.....whether to have a spa this week or next week
I NEED…a new psp game (SIMS_CASTAWAY)
I SHOULD…learn how to drive soon
THE LAST THOUGHT I GO TO SLEEP WITH IS…how happy my life is right now

thanks to Beth for this tag! this is my first time to be tagged.


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Saturday, March 15, 2008

What Dog Breed Are You?

What dog breed are you? I'm a Border Collie! Find out at Dogster.com



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Friday, March 14, 2008

Liam's photos

My Liam is now 1 1/2 months old
I would like to share some of his photos....

He is smiling already and we caught some of them....







He weighs 3.5kilos when he was born and we found out just this morning when we went to his Pedia that he is already 5.3kilos....

He was given shots for Anti Hepatitis B.... next vaccination will be on April 18.

Here's some of his pictures with his ATE SYMONE








And this is my favorite picture....





HAHAHA!!! Soooo Cute...





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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

This is What Kind Of Flower I Am


I am a
Violet


What Flower
Are You?







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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

How can I love so intensely?

How can I love so intensely someone I barely know?
Someone who has said not a word and shared not a thought.
Someone who has yet to see the page of the calendar turn ...
I look for a hint of a smile as I hold you close ...
Through the night, I check your cradle. Looking for the rising and falling of your chest and straining to hear your soft breaths ...
How can I love so intensely someone I barely know?
I didn't know it was possible -- until there was you.....



my little miracle, my little mystery.





(this is my little prince.... Liam Xymone)




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Sunday, March 9, 2008

Audition for PSP





















I got addicted to Audition since last year.... FYI, Audition is an online dancing game here on Asia.
Im a frustrated dancer so thanks to the makers of this game and I can finally dance.... hahaha!

Anyway, I was downloading cso's and iso's for my psp last night when i
read AUDITION PORTABLE. Hubby told me to download it not knowing that i am downloading my favorite game for my PSP.

after 4 hours of downloading the file, hubby told me to put the file in the psp and im super happy when i saw that it was "THE" audition.... my game....

so to make the long story short, i played till 4am.... hahaha!!!!

thanks honey!!!!










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Friday, March 7, 2008

The 'I Love You More' Game

A little girl teaches her mom a thing or two about love.

By Christie A. Hansen

Reprinted with permission from Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Mothers.

Meet my daughter, Amanda. Four years old and a fountain of knowledge. The other day she was reciting a list of all the facts and tidbits she has memorized. One plus one is two. If you mix yellow paint with blue you get green. Penguins can't fly....On and on she went.

Finally, she finished. "Mom," she said, looking very smug, "I know everything."
I let on as if I believed her, but chuckled to myself thinking of all the "this and that's" that a four-year-old child couldn't possibly know. Comparing her four years to my almost three decades of life experiences, I felt sure I knew what she knew and then some.
Within a week, I'd learn I was wrong.
It all began as we were standing in front of the bathroom mirror, me fixing Amanda's fine, blonde hair. I was putting in the final elastic of a spunky pair of pony tails and finished with, "I love you, Amanda."
"And I love you," she replied.
"Oh, yeah," I taunted, "well, I love you more."
Her eyes lit up as she recognized the cue for the start of another "I love you more" match. "Nuh-uh," she laughed, "I love you the most."
"I love you bigger than a volcano!" I countered--a favorite family phrase in these battles of love.
"But, Mom, I love you from here to China"--a country she's learning about thanks to our new neighbors up the street.
We volleyed back and forth a few favorite lines. "I love you more than peanut butter"...Well, I love you more than television"..."I even love you more than bubble gum."
It was my turn again, and I made the move that usually brings victory. "Too bad, chickadee. I love you bigger than the universe!" On this day, however, Amanda was not going to give up. I could see she was thinking.
"Mom," she said in a quiet voice, "I love you more than myself."
I stopped. Dumbfounded. Overwhelmed by her sincerity.
Here I thought that I knew more than she did. I thought I knew at least everything that she knew. But I didn't know this. My four-year-old daughter knows more about love than her twenty-eight-year-old mom. And somehow she loves me more than herself.



*this story made my eyes water and mist.... it was very touching.... being a mom is definitely priceless.... im just so PROUD being one....

and to quote Katherine Hadley...

The decision to have a child is to accept that your heart will forever walk about outside of your body.



And now I have my heart walking outside my body. Risky... having your heart so out in the open... but every night before I turn off the lights, I look at my heart sleeping one last time every day... and if i'm lucky, I get to watch him yawn and move about a little... then he gives a little, sleepy smile.. and I know that having my heart out here in the world is all worth the risk.



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Thursday, March 6, 2008

THE IMPORTANCE OF MOM AND DAD

THE IMPORTANCE OF MOM AND DAD

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6

The most important issue in the life of a teenager is not what is taking place in the world out there. It’s peer pressure. What do my friends think of me? That’s been the accepted norm for quite a long time, and only a moron would underestimate the force of peer pressure today when it comes to how teens dress, act, and think. But has peer pressure been a kind of cop-out, getting more blame than it deserves?

A 1997 study, one of the most comprehensive ones ever done, contended that parents, not other teenagers, are actually the most significant force in the lives of teenagers. The National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health involved some 90,000 children. Three factors emerged from this seminal study.

These three factors are universal. They are just as true today as when the study was done. They help combat risky behaviors and attitudes in teens, which include emotional distress, suicidal thoughts and actions, violence, the use of alcohol, tobacco or marijuana, and sexual activity, including pregnancy. And what are those three factors?

Factor #1: Family cohesiveness. This involves a feeling of belonging, of being cared for, the realization that a youngster is wanted, loved, and a valued member of the family. This, of course, means that parents have to be there for their children. The myth of enough quality time compensating for long periods of absence just doesn’t work. Family cohesiveness means a youngster grows up with a sense of belonging, and all the child care workers and all the government programs combined cannot replace the importance of a mom and a dad being there.

Factor #2: Parental expectations. Parental expectations become prophesies of future behavior. When children know that parents believe in them and encourage them to avoid drugs, alcohol, and promiscuity, and parents themselves model their expectations, teens are far more apt to avoid what parents condemn.

This, of course, implies that parents have definite ideas of right and wrong and what is acceptable and unacceptable. Children who are raised with moral and spiritual values are far more apt to incorporate them into their lives than kids who grow up with an “anything goes because nobody is there anyway” attitude.

Factor #3: Parental involvement in the life of a child. The hard fact remains that when a parent is not present in a home after school, at dinner and at bedtime something important is missing, and something else—TV, a cell phone, another teenager—will become a significant influence.

There you have it. Research has done it again. They have certified the obvious. The Bible summarized the report almost 3000 years ago when it said, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it” (Proverbs 22:6). In one sentence, the wise man summarized what was true then, is true today, and will be true in the next generation: Parents are still the most important force in the life of a child. But there is a disclaimer. When parents are not there, they can’t offset the influence of their peers, which accounts for gangs, violence, and thirteen-year-olds having babies.

When parents live out the expectations they have for their children, kids have a benchmark to shoot for. No, it doesn’t mean they will always fly right. Some of us took more than a few bruises until we got things straightened out, but they learn right from wrong, what is moral and what is immoral, what is acceptable and what will not be tolerated, and in so doing we pass the baton of decency and a sense of values to our children, who will someday take our places in the world.
Being the parent of a teenager can be tremendously frustrating. But you only have a few years to pack their suitcase then they’re gone. So, do a good job of it. May our conduct measure up to what we think it is.

Resource reading: Proverbs 22.



*credits to Trine Galvez






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No more good news

I recieved an email from my sister informing me that she won't be coming home this May anymore....:( but instead she'll be here this July for her birthday and my little symone's birthday.

anyway, it's past midnight and my kids are all sleeping. Hubby is still watching tv so i have no choice but to wait for him since I cannot sleep without him.

I just wanna share an email that I read this morning.....

New Breast Cancer Infos


WARN ALL FEMALES E.G. WIVES, DAUGHTERS, GIRL FRIENDS
ETC..

Bottled water in your car.....very dangerous,
woman!!!!

This is how Sheryl Crow got breast cancer. She was on
the Ellen show and said this same exact thing. This
has been identified as the most common cause of the
high levels in breast cancer, especially in Australia
.

A friend whose mother was recently diagnosed with
breast cancer. The Doctor told her: women should not
drink bottled water that has been left in a car.

The doctor said that the heat and the plastic of the
bottle have certain chemicals that can lead to breast
cancer. So please be careful and do not drink bottled
water that has been left in a car, and, pass this on
to all the women in your life. This information is the
kind we need to know and be aware and just might save
us!!!! The heat causes toxins from the plastic to leak
into the water and they have found these toxins in
breast tissue. Use a stainless steel Canteen or a
glass bottle when you can!!!

Let us take good care of our health!!!


I hope this info will be helpful......


have to sleep now..... GOODNIGHT!


*thanks to TRINE GALVEZ for this information


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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Good News!


Got this news just a couple of minutes ago....

My sister will be home (hopefully) this May!!! WOW! I'm so excited!!!!

To give a brief story about my sister, ELLA....... she's staying in Dubai for two years now. She's working as a Junior Lawyer in Hadef AL-Dahiri. She went home last September for Mom's 60th birthday. She stayed here for only a month.

I miss my sister so much!!!! I'm looking forward spending time with her soon......

I know my Little Symone misses her also..... When you asked my daughter about her tita ella, she'll tell you that they'll be going to Disneyland and she misses her tita so much.

I'll be seeing you soon ELLA!!!!!


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Monday, March 3, 2008

The most beautiful rainbow



"As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that
wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You
will have your heart broken probably more than once and
it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so
remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight
with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things
an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast,
and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too
many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never
been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset
is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. Don't be
fraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never
begin."


* thanks to TITA YMAI for sending me this email

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Liam's first malling



Yesterday was the last day of SM Southmall's 3 day sale.
We went there to see the baby items that were placed on sale.
This is the first time that we went there with our two kids. It was happy though...
I bought 3 Chicco 12oz bottles for only 250 each (from 350 original price), assorted cartoon DVD's for only 150 each (from 300 original price)
Sadly Hubby and I didnt bought anything for ourselves. Hubby planned to buy a new Digital Camera if it is up on sale but it is not so we ended up buying just the things for our kids.

Liam is so amazed with the lights and the people. Symone is so excited pushing Liam's stroller.

Though hubby and I we're super tired it was super exciting and happy to be with our two kids strolling at the mall for the very first time.
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