Back in April, my family took a 10-day break in Baguio. But somehow the trip took a wrong turn when, one by one, my family (my kids, nephew, nieces, sister, dad) began getting sick with what appeared to be gastroenteritis. I believe it was food- or water-borne.
I had so many plans, so many places in [...]
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 [...]
I brought Nate to the doctor for typhoid vaccination last Saturday. As expected, he has grown heavier and taller. The latest stats:
Weight: 16 kg
Height: 89 cm
Good news: His height is within normal limits. (Whew, I feared he may be a shortie!)
Bad news: His weight is for a 3-year old. (Not so bad, actually, because he [...]
This week’s question at Julie’s GreenBucks is:
What special Christmas memories do you still cherish as the years pass by?
No matter how exhausting the Christmas season is (both for the body and the pocket!), I still look forward to celebrating it. What I look forward to most is going home to celebrate Christmas Day with my parents, [...]
Continue reading about Cherished Christmases of My Childhood
The past several days, Metro Manila has had really sizzling hot weather! It’s been hot, humid, sticky days. And, almost without fail, it rains in the afternoon. Sometimes it’s just a drizzle. On other days, it’s a downpour.
On hot days like these, I wish I had a pool I could dip into anytime, or at [...]
The other day I received a letter from my two girls.
The letter, written in 3 pages torn out of a small notebook and folded into a roughly done envelop, read:
Am I late?
This (last?) week’s WQ from Julie’s GreenBucks is:
If you were an Olympian, what sport would you be participating in?
Back when I was a little girl, around age 10, I saw on TV this movie on the life story of Nadia Comaneci, the famous Romanian gymnast. It was such an awe-inspiring movie. [...]
Remember VGood’s Lovesick episode last year?
Well, it’s happening again. But this time with a classmate.
And, this time, she is handling her, uhh, situation more calmly and coolly.
V and classmate (let’s call him E) are seatmates. But they have been going to the same Chinese tutorial center since last year. So there’s quite some kind of [...]
Nate turned two years old earlier this month!
He is such a big boy. And by big, I mean BIG. Even our pediatrician noticed how differently big he is from his sisters. His hands, arms, legs, head are so much bigger. And so is his appetite!
As of our last doctor’s visit, Nate weighed 15.3 kilos. That’s [...]
When I was a child, I used to look forward to those huge boxes of goodies from our relatives in the U.S. Package, we call them. Among the contents of the package, my favorites were Barbie dolls (sister # 3 and I always got one each, from either Auntie P or Auntie V), those red-and-white-swirled [...]
