From Dawn Till Dusk

This is my take on Teacher Julie’s Weekly Question No. 9: What are the 5 simple pleasures that will give you, well, simple pleasures?

When Mommying duties seems too mundane and taxing, there’s no need to throw in the towel. When Mommy life seems too much full and you can’t handle one more game of patty cake, it’s time for a mommy break.

Mommy breaks are great because they allow you to get away and relax. They allow Mom time to re-coop and re-evaluate her, well, quite “challenging role”.  And oftentimes, they allow just enough breathing room to remind Mom that she isn’t just a Mom alone but a distinct individual and valuable part, not just of the family, but of the community as well.

At Mommy breaks, I simply enjoy life’s simple pleasures.  Well, not as sosyal as joining wine of the month clubs but something rather similar or something to that effect like: Continue Reading »

Meet fishboy.  :)  The little gold fish that we accidentally bought at a nearby petshop earlier today.   It was Nico’s assignment in school to bring at least five objects that start with the letter F today and since the instruction clearly stressed that the objects has to be “the real ones”, we thought of buying real fish. A gold fish, that is.

Nico’s Teacher was kinda surprised the moment she saw the Little Boy carrying the fish in a plastic bag (alongside with flower, fan, flashlight and feather) when we arrived in school today, but hey, she’s all smiles because at least we get to bring “a real one”.

Normally, the Teachers in school would keep the objects the kids brought in an Alphabox.  But this time, since this “real one” that Nico bought can’t be stored in the box, the Teacher returned the fish to us after the class.  Continue Reading »

The construction of the little play area project in the house is in full swing, so we opted not to go anywhere during the weekend. The progress was supposed to be around 70 percent complete, but heavy rains caused the little project to be a bit delayed.  So for the weekend that passed, we just stayed at home to supervise and make sure that the construction goes a little speedier. You know, labor costs are considerably eating up the conservative budget that we allocated for the project that no budget software can fix.

Yay, I can’t wait till the little project gets finished really really sooooon. And so is Nico, who, aside from consistently checking how the project is going, just contented himself tossing and playing with the stock of tokens we’re suppose to use and enjoy this recent weekend at Tom’s World. Continue Reading »

Was about to do Teacher Julie’s Weekly Question #8 today when a post of hers about the Marital Scale Test caught my attention. Curious what it’s all about, I snagged it and took the test myself. I was laughing so hard reading on and answering the questions. They were simply hilarious. It’s the new milenyo really and gender issues have really come a long way. Anyway, this was the result for me:

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61 As a 1930s wife, I am Superior Take the test!

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Haha! I can hardly believe my eyes when I saw the result: Superior! I thought I’d fail the test and get demerits for so many reasons. Among them are three unforgettable answers I ticked: being a quite lousy housekeeper (heehee, vacuum cleaners and floor mops aren’t just my kind of companions to keep the home tidy and clean); I don’t allow the Hubby to sleep so late on Sundays and holidays (well, he needs to get up soon as I am up, so he can share doing the long line-up of chores at home as well); and, wears pajamas while cooking (well, I don’t see anything wrong with that but the scale rates it as demerit because wives, according to the scale, are supposed to keep self dainty, perfumed, and feminine all the time).

Now, that sounds self-serving! I guess, it could have been more accurate if the Hubby was the one who answered it. That way, it’s not biased. I’m sure he’ll be laughing his heart out too, ticking and clicking on the answers.

Curious about the test? You can take the test yourself here. Goodluck!

I’ve always thought that a 3-4 years gap between the first-born and the second is quite ideal for child spacing. Hubby and I actually decided and planned to have it that way since we reasoned we wanted to enjoy Nico for quite sometime until we feel we are ready for the second.

But you know, it’s kinda weird because just lately, we realized that if we can only turn back time, we would have opted a close in age gap (around 18-24 months?) between Nico and the second baby.

At four years old now, we can feel the cons of raising an only child in Nico. Boredom, the feeling of loneliness with no “real” and “regular” playmates to have fun with plus a number of more reasons—we can’t help but think what joy it was if Nico had a younger sibling. They would have enjoyed each other more and have more in common. They would have been best of friends and as well, as great playmates.

Last weekend was a vivid picturing of this realization. My best friend for life was in town once more for a short business trip and together with her three and a half year old daughter Sam, they stayed in our home until yesterday. Nico had the grandest time playing with Sam for a couple of days and seeing our Little Boy’s eyes all glowing in happiness having a playmate all giggling and excited the moment he wakes up in the morning until he retires at night, surely, it was true happiness no amount of money or materials things or the best toys in this world can buy. Continue Reading »

There, I’m done fixing the errors in the comment plugins I downloaded hoarded months ago. It’s a pain going through the WP forums and finding out what seems to be wrong and how to address them. Apparently, the page template needs a little tweaking. You know, some CSS stuff so alien to me. But am glad it’s fixed. After this, super promise, I’ll treat myself for some much-needed unwinding. Yikes, if only I’m rich, I would have probably plunge on a Las Vegas travel. But the poor little ‘ol me knows, I can’t. So maybe, I’ll just content myself even just for a cup of frap at a Coffee shop.

Now I can comment to your aging, old and already rusting comments. Thank you for all the patience. Gosh, since the comment plugins went pffff, I felt like I was someone deaf and mute, not being able to reply to your comments. Sorry for that.

BTW, in case your interested in downloading (especially to those with new and spanking blogs: Cookie and Weng — I know how it feels excitedly exploring and decorating your new homes with awesome WP plugins), am sharing the links here on where to download them. Just heads me up, should you encounter problems, I might be of help. Naks, yabang ko daw oh! Continue Reading »