Mommy Ning

We went on an out of town trip to north with J last month. This time, we travelled with my sister. I don't think I can sustain the long trip alone looking after two kids inside the car especially that my little girl is triple the likot from LJ when he was her age. Honestly, I don't know where she gets all the powers to do that! So terrible. Since it was my sister's first time in Vigan, we are obliged to tour her around. In the morning, we had the usual breakfast at the hotel and let her try the empanada and the sinanglao  at the plaza. After filling our tummies, we hired a  kalesa . We roamed around the famous tourist spots of Vigan. While J was busy chatting with our tour guide, he mentioned something new to our ears which is the Secret Garden. But since we only rented the kalesa  for an hour we decided to use the car for the rest of the tour. We took photos first before leaving the hotel. Look how giddy my little girl is, trying to run around in circles. There are alot...

The past few weeks were a very busy one, so with LJ's vocabulary. From the time he was able to converse well with us, he couldn't stop talking every.single.day. I imagine myself that I am inside a boxing tournament where every move I make there is someone narrating. He is just 31months old and is now very talkative how much more when he reached 4 years old and I have to answer all his why's? Whew! Still, I am so glad that there is a big improvement when it comes to his vocabulary as each month goes by. Apart from what others were saying before that he was a pathetic little boy because he cannot yet converse well at the age of one!  Right now, there is a slight change of the "no" word. The "no" word is slowly making a shift to the "yes". Also he can now add "ing" to some the action words like taking, eating, running, sliding, and etc.  During lunchtime, he was having slight tantrums when he doesn't like to finish...

Hello mommies! How are you doing so far? I have been meaning to attend the Mom and Me event this weekend and guess what? I am coming! I won the tickets yesterday and I belong to the last 5 winners. Yey! Papa Jess has been so good to me. Now I am excited! I will now have to decide on what date I will attend to.  source This is the schedule of their activities. I still have to decide yet what date to choose. Mommies and daddies too, if you are not busy you can join the event and have fun with your tots. I'm sure it will all be fun.  Anyway, yesterday on my way home I dropped by the grocery store to buy some thing. When I went inside I was carrying a small plastic bag and I deposited it at the grocery counter, then went on to pick up some items. Then went straight home. Guess what? It was only after two hours that I realized I left something at the grocery counter! I don't know what to call it but I guess the effect of anesthesia with me. Oh I have to exercise my memory. *Sigh* T...

source When I was a kid, I always remember my dad who usually tells us every summer that he will teach us Karate lessons. It went on and on and on until such time that I began to accept that all he said was a lie. As I time passes by, I also learn not to hold on the words and hope on big pictures. It gets frustrating when you expect on things to happen according to the word you hold on but never will. Sometimes people tend not to keep their word.  Lesson: Expect.Less source

source We all tend to be preoccupied on some unimportant things that we forget to appreciate even the smallest things we have. More often than not, we tend to neglect them especially the important people in our lives. It is only such time that it is slowly drifting away that we realize the value of each of them.  It is never wrong to appreciate every people in your life no matter how words can become a cliche so as long as they know that every little thing they do matters a lot to you. How do you show appreciation?

I wanna take a pause from my mundane domestic duties today. Yesterday I was torn to go to the opening of SM Aura or going to the meet and greet of #fastandfurious6 cast at Glorietta this afternoon. But since I will tag my kids along so is the meet and greet at Glorietta instead. It was never a wrong decision after all because we get to see the F1 Lotus car in the flesh. We went to MOA last weekend which will be in a separate post to see the F1 car at the carshow but unfortunately no F1 Lotus car was there. While we were walking en route to Mc Donalds, my little smarty pants blurted out and said, car! At first I thought it was just a ginormous toy car displayed on the center asile and when I saw the front wheel it finally sank in that it was the F1 Lotus Car! And we took some photos. Yey! Here are the photos from my instagram: Went straight to McDonalds as my cranky boy is already hungry. Why McDonalds? Well, a bit self-serving to me because of what the happy meal can give me--Hello K...

This morning I came across my cousin's facebook and she shared a page which caught my attention. A baby in dire need of a liver transplant at a small age diagnosed to have biliary cirrhosis. If you have kind hearts let us all help spread the word and if have extra amount you can send some and help them raise php 4M for the operation in Taiwan. Let us all help save this little angels life.  Please visit their FB page  here  and their website  here.  You can also send donations thru gofund  here.

If there's one thing I have to thank for my existence, is my mother. If not for her, I didn't get to experience what life has to offer. My mom is not fond of fancy celebrations on special occasions. I don't have any recollection that we spent mother's/father's day the way others did. I didn't even recall that my dad made it special for my mom or by surprising her with gifts. All I can remember is every mother's day we always give her letters which I don't know if she kept  some of it. She has always been a simple woman and I am her opposite in some ways. But I have always looked up on her and until now I still haven't figured out how she was able to manage to raise the four of us. That, I am so thankful and proud of her. I spent the mother's day and our 42nd monthsary with the kids because J is on  a week business trip. Nothing fancy also just an ordinary day not even a queen just for one day. #wishfulthinking I had alot of chores to do but I spe...

Please don't hate me for not giving my son chocolates and candies. I just feel it's not yet the right time for him to enjoy it. But as usual J has always been the softie when it comes to the kids. Everytime LJ gave him the kawawa  look he would always give in.  One afternoon the little boy got bored he asked for something to eat. He asked for cookies but since it was nearly dinner time, told J not to give them anymore. But hey, since he was eating chocolates, he offered it instead. Hmp! He gave LJ one piece and since he finished it in an instant he asked for another. Because he knows where we hid the food which is basically inside the fridge, he then opened it. LJ : Boboy, more kokokik (chocolate) pweese (please)?  J : No more, we will buy tomorrow. LJ then opened the fridge and rummaged then finally got what he was looking for. LJ : Boboy, magik (magic)! He was so delighted when he saw some chocolates hidden inside the fridge.  Oh no. Boboy lied.  -- ...

I have been meaning to go to Salcedo/Legaspi Village Market/s which are open during weekends. The purpose of going to these markets was to buy fresh produce which are not found in malls and markets and the gastronomic experience with the family. It was a weekend that J wasn't so busy and finally we pushed through. But because everyone of us woke up late, meaning 10:00 in the morning, we arrived there past lunch already and was the peak of the scorching summer heat. My little girl was still sleepy but my little boy and J went to the playground already while my sister and I went around the stalls and my eyes feast with the fresh produce they were selling. Pardon some of my photos, lost some of it because my fone didn't cooperate with me. After roaming around the stalls, I got hungry and realized that since we arrived late some of the menu were already not available so I ordered food that I don't prepare at home. LJ enjoyed the freedom of playing in the park along with other k...

My aunt attended the Philippine Pediatric Society Annual Convention weeks ago. If I remembered it right we were the ones who usually come with her to attend the convention here in Manila (we were still living in the province) and because she doesn't have a family of her own, she tags us along with her every time and that was more than a decade ago. If there's one thing I am thankful for being in a family of physicians is that I have supply of vitamins for my tots--yearly supply. Eversince they were born I didn't spend much on their vitamins and I only buy if they ran out of their alternative. I get a supply of milk, rice cereals and expensive skin care products from them. She was our pediatrician when we were kids and became the pedia of my kids when we were still in the province. We didn't get to visit her at the hotel but we meet up on the last day of her convention. We picked her up at the the PICC and went to Mall of Asia for our dinner. Their love for food is our w...

To all the mother's out there, Happy Mother's Day to you.  source source source

It's May already and it's mother's day month! Last labor day I went to meet a friend at MOA with my little boy. I'm glad that he wasn't that cranky to come with me to meet his godmother. First day of the month isn't so good because J and I had a fight. I was giving him cold shoulders because I was really disappointed. To cut it short, we argued like we were high school kids. When there was already silence in the room and I was crying, LJ went out of the CR after finishing his bath and saw me sad. He immediately asked, "Mama, sad?" I couldn't lie to the little boy and I said yes. Tears were welling my eyes and falling from my cheeks again. He wasn't even dressed up, sat beside me and was trying to calm me and kept telling me to stop crying. He was busy looking for my cellphone thinking that it would make me a little relieved and happy. He went to his dad and told him, "Papa, talk." He meant to talk to me and somehow change my mood. He ...