My little baby, Samantha Gabrielle

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Domino Tag

Aggie's reviving the Domino Tag ! ;)


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Domino

Rule: Copy the entire list and add your name at the bottom. And tag at least 5 friends. (But you can tag as many as you like).

Note: Please link the blog where you posted the tag :) We appreciate you linking all your blogs but make sure you post the tag in the blogs too.



Mommy Talks Aggie Shoots. Aggie Scraps All Kinds of Me Stuff The Salad Caper Winding Creek Circle Anorexic Queen Apple of Yan Ple YanPle Howell and Abie My Planet Purple WomenXplore Princess Bela My Happy Place I am Dzoi Cliktrik 100% Kelly My Colorful World Ramdom Thoughts Scribbles of My Life In This Game of Life The Shopaholic in Me Mommyhood and Me My Charmed Life My Joys Sassy Finds Celebrating Life Life is Peachy Belly, Baby and Beyond {BloggerHappy} {BerryScrappy} Life’s Simple Pleasures Coffee Table Conversations

Passing the domino tag to Maver, Melisse, MM, Sheila, Vien, Pat and Yvelle

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Sunday, July 13, 2008

looking for party entertainment.

I've been planning and coordinating parties for my friends and relatives for years now. Nope, I am not doing it as a professional service but out of my love and passion for parties! They usually ask for party ideas and assistance since they know I've got quite a good number of trusted and dependable party suppliers. Besides, they've seen parties I've arranged for my kids and immediate families, and they seem to like the outcome of my coordinated parties. Of course, I am happy and thankful they loved my parties.
Thus, I am not surprised when my cousin from California asked for assistance on her upcoming debut party. I would definitely love to help! For starters, I gave her option to hold a dinner-dance type of party with live band or mobile dance party. I guess nowadays, hiring DJ for parties are sure hit among college students! I asked her to check out san diego disc jockey since I've read great reviews from their previous clienteles. The company boasts extensive selection of music database that would definitely fit every guests' genre which I assume mostly the hiphop and R&B crowd. Think they also offer personal playlist that would be perfect to suit the host's party music selection. Really great, huh? The company even offers variety of party package from preparation, to music materials, equipment rental taking in consderation the budget of the celebrant. Really a blessing for budget-conscious like my cousin. And since my cousin lives at Lakeside, California travel cost already FREE of charge! Lastly, with their pool of talented and well-experienced DJs, I am sure her debut party will be a great hit and talk of the town.
Unfortunately, I wish I can join her on this special day of her life. With my previous work commitment, I am afraid I'll just have to take the sidelines now and offer all supplier list I can give her to ensure success of her party. To my dear cus April, wishing you all the best!

shoe hunt for kuya

Ico went home the other day from school asking if I can get him new pair of school shoes. As per him, the last pair of shoes I bought is too dressy for his everyday use. Dressy, eh? Never thought of that. He is asking me if I can get him more of a rugged, sport-type of school shoes that he can use for running and brisk walking. Well, you know how teen kids are. Anyway, I saw on the web nice, durable and comfortable shoes that would fit his preference, Ecco shoes. Aside from the stylish design and comfort, I've read reviews that the product uses 100% environment-friendly materials from production, packaging to the finished product itself. Something notable and worth considering these days. I think he'll love the idea of shopping while helping the environment. Anyway, I hope he'll approve of my design choices below. Otherwise, I'll be back to shoe hunting again.


Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Sweet Award

Oh such a sweet award from Tet and Em ... Thank you for the nice flower too! Truly lit up my day!









Passing this oh-so-sweet award to my ka-birth month bloggers : Jane, Joy and Jody.

our daily schedule ...

Tagged by Jane.

Since I am on vacation leave for two glorious weeks, our daily schedule are as follows:

600 am : alarm on, wakes up the little girl
615 am : bath time and yaya puts on her uniform
630 am : breakfast while watching disney channel ; hubby eats breakfast too.
700 am : hubby and sam leaves for school
701 am : mommy to catch few more hours of sleep
930 am : blog, twit, raket, online shop, do house errands
1130 am: cook for lunch
1215pm : bratinella arrives from school , lunch
130-4pm: bath for mommy, siesta time with sam, dvd watch
4pm-5pm: online again
5pm : prepare for dinner
7pm : sam's school assignment
8pm : hubby arrives, dinner.
10 pm : prepare for bed, a little tv watching

BUT, once I am back to work... my schedule will be as follows:

600 am : alarm on, wakes up the little girl
615 am : bath time and yaya puts on her uniform
630 am : breakfast while watching disney channel ; hubby eats breakfast too.
700 am : hubby and sam leaves for school
701 am : bath for mommy and prepare for work

800 am : off to work work
9-6 pm : WORK
700pm : arrive home, sam's homework
800pm : dinner
9-10pm : online duties, blog, check email
11pm : bed time

So this is my daily schedule. Believe me, I am loving every minute of my vacation. Sleeping, watching dvd, cleaning the house and just playing or cuddling with Sam. Totally priceless! lol.

Care to share your daily routine chat, tet and mm?




sink shopping online

When we are doing our house construction two years ago, I specifically asked our contractor to splurge and install good quality materials on two parts of the house: kitchen and bathrooms. I particularly insist on high quality and durable fixtures such as tiles, faucets, showers and sinks since this is subject to wear and tear over time. True to his word, he made sure to install good quality fixtures such as shower heads and faucets from Kohler. Kinda pricey compared to other bathroom fixture brands, but really durable and tested over time. Hence, when I saw available farmhouse sinks on the net, I immediately asked him to consider using this for our guest bathroom. Well aside from using durable marble material, aesthetic-wise, it will blend very well with our modern-minimalist theme. Unfortunately with the house-turn over deadline to complete, it was impossible to purchase the sink online. But nevertheless, hubby and I vowed on our next house construction (hopefully couple of years from now); will definitely place our order ahead of time.

black marble farmhouse sink 18" x 30" x 10.5"



You and your child (ren) tag

Another overdue tag from Jody. Sorry girl for the late post. I am sooo overwhelmed for the past few days with my new status: SAHM. Hahaha! Ganito pala...busy, busy days!

1. Start Copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy“.

2. Choose the photo(s) of you and your child(ren) that you would like to share in your blog, with a small story/explanation about when and where the photo(s) was/were taken.

3. Add your blog name and url blog, then leave your url post
in here. And I’ll add you to the Master List.

4. Please help spread this tag by tagging your friends as much as you can.

5. Please come back again to copy the update of the master list, often. This process will help new participants to get the same gains as the first participants.

Master List :

1. Juliana’s Site 2. Moms…..check nyo 3. Pinay WAHM 4. Residual Matters 5. So Cute 6. Pinaymama’s Diary 7. Beauty of Life 8. Point of View 9. The Callalily Space10. Nyumix 11. Aeirin Collections 12. 3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires 13. Twerlermz’s Blog14. My Virtual Journal 15. Capturing The Moments 16. Jenny and Belle 17. Just another day in sunny Florida 18. Pampered 19. Apple of my Eyes 20. Mummy Diaries 21. All about your child 22. Super Mae 23. It’s my party 24. In My home 25.LZMommy 26. All Natural 27. It’s a woman’s world 28. Rantings of A Woman 29.ParentZine 30. Me and Mine 31. My Colorful World 32. Ed’s Mommy Life 33. My Life is Peachy 34. My Simple Joys 35. The Shophaholic in Me 36. Life's Simple Pleasures ~End Copy~

For this tag, I'll cheat a little. I am posting a picture of my precious kids, Ico and Sam. This picture was taken April 2005. I so love this picture because it was their first picture session together at Picture Company, Podium. If you know my son, he's really camera shy. It took me a lot of pleading (and bribing) for him to join the session. He prefers to hold the camera than pose for pictures.
If you'll look at them, you will see no physical similarities. Totally opposite in built, complexion and looks. But despite having different dads, they love each other. Ico is very much caring and big kuya to Sam, while Sam is very sweet to Kuya. Seeing them close and loving to each other ... ahhh truly priceless! I guess one of the reasons why there is no sibling rivalry between the two, almost ten years age gap of Ico and Sam. Ico is matured and responsible, and Sam is always treated the baby of the family.

*Ico here at 9 years old, Sam at 4 months old --- minus me in the pix