When Nate was younger (and a lot smaller), he used to love listening to classical music while sleeping. I’d play a Mozart CD or that free classical baby CD I got from a milk company rep when I was working for the pharma industry. The soothing piano music lulled him to sleep, and he’d snooze [...]
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Saturday, on the way home from Mandarin classes.
The two girls were discussing what to do on this long weekend. (In celebration of the Lunar New Year, my kids have no school on Monday.)
Patch: I want to watch a movie! Can we go watch ‘Alice in Wonderland’?
V: No, I don’t like that, it’s scary. I want [...]
Patch got wired during the summer of 2008.
Back then, she had “very few” teeth, because the dentist had to do series extraction. She pulled out the temporary teeth to make room for the permanent ones. The dentist had to resort to series extractions because Patch has small facial bones. Her jaw and mandibles were too [...]
And checking it twice…
thrice…
four times…
One afternoon, as soon as we arrived at home from school, V got one of her old notebooks and began scribbling some stuff. I really wasn’t paying attention.
All through the evening, she kept going back to her scribbles. I got curious, of course. So nosy iMom decided to check it out…
This [...]
Today, October 5, is World Teachers’ Day.
Teachers deserve to be honored for the roles they play in shaping us into what we are. Just a few posts back, I paid tribute to the greatest teacher I have ever had – Sir Emmett.
Sir Emmett is a fine example of how a teacher should be – passionate, [...]
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One day after school -
V: Ma, Casey gave me kisses today!
iMom: Whaaat??
V: Yeah, three kisses! So I added them to the others in my bottle. But teacher confiscated it. *sad face*
Whew! Now I know what those kisses are. No, not the chocolates. Certainly not lip smacks.
I don’t know about your kids, but kisses seem to [...]
VGood’s and MagNate’s birthdays are only a week apart. In the past two years, we’ve been celebrating the double birthdays with out-of-town trips. Incidentally, both were at Subic (well yes, it’s one of our fave places).
This year, due to time and budget constraints, their birthdays were celebrated simply with the ceremonial birthday candle blowing and [...]
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I got tagged by Noemi weeks (or months?) ago to join a global meme for mommy bloggers from around the world. I actually waited for Mother’s Day to do this.
Here’s how the tag works:
I’m going to link to a couple of other mom bloggers here in the Philippines, and to a couple of [...]
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This is the pointed question that I got from VGood this afternoon -
V: Mom, are you really blogging your way to weight loss??? (with dramatic emphasis on “weight loss”)
iMom: Yes, I think so. Why?
V (quietly, but with conviction): Liar.
iMom (almost furious): Huh?? What did you say??!??
V: How can you be losing weight when you’re sitting [...]
“What is emo?”
This question was posed by my 7-year old daughter VGood to a classmate.
Classmate answered V’s question with a drawing -
“Emo girl/boy that always wear[s] black dress and makeup and like a punk or always drunk.”
I cracked up when I saw this yesterday while fixing V’s school bag. Kids come up with the most [...]
