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on fwiendship:”I read in the alchemist that sometimes it’s better to leave things the way they are. I agree. I realized that there will come a point in time when you’ll get tired trying to fix things up, you’ll wake up one day thinking that you don’t really need these people and all of the dramas that go along dealing with them. Sometimes people just stop hoping =( But the sad thing is, deep in their hearts, they still end up waiting…”True! I visit my bosom friend’s blog in friendster very often and her forte in writing never wanes. It’s good that somehow even though we are so far from our friends who are very close to our hearts but we feel more closer by just reminiscing those memories that through the time like an aged wine, the longer that it’s hidden in the cellar the better it would taste.

 My daughter will not be a victim of this modern notion that if you’re thin then you are beautiful. Everyday in our lives we are bombarded with lots of advertisements from plastic surgeries, to diet pills, smart liposuction, breast augmentation, nose job, neck lift, tummy tuck… the list goes on and the more that women and kids are exposed to this kind of deceiving advertisements on beauty products consumerism. 

I don’t want my daughter to be duped to this kind of misconception. I want her to live her life as happy as she’d be, as simple as she’d be and as healthy as she could be. I don’t want her to be under the power of a knife just to polish some of her body parts just to achieve that perfect look. Talk about the fatal effects of this hype on keeping our body toned and beautiful in a quick yet pricey manner and the scary results on bulimia and anorexia nervosa and some other eating disorder diseases. 

Do you think you’re doing your body something good. Of course, yeah, you’ll be a goddess of beauty but inside your body they are degenerating; complications arises in worst case scenarios. Take for example the models who’ve passed away like the Brazilian Model Ana Carolina Reston last Nov. 15, 2006 and the most recent Israeli model Hila Ilmalich who died just this Nov. 14, 2007. They are both victims of anorexia nervosa.”Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. It primarily affects adolescent females, however approximately 10% of people with the diagnosis are male. Anorexia nervosa is a complex condition, involving psychological, neurobiological, and sociological components.”  

~ Definition taken from Wikipedia~

 The pressure is very tight as you see sexy women in the TV, print ads, magazines, newspapers but is it worth your life? I guess no! I’m happy with my cup A which progressed to cup B while breast feeding Sean and I know it’ll will again go back to its normal size, talk of depreciation but I’m so uberly happy that I gave him my milk rather than synthetically made formula milk. Even though I still have a bulging tummy due to giving births to my two adorable kids but I’ll manage with it through exercise which I’m going to do (again!). And I’m happy with my color and my nose so DR. Vicky Belo and Dr. Calayan will not have a share of my savings. 

I have a story of an acquintance who had undergo a nose job. And she did not tell her friends including myself about it. Funny thing happened while we were in the airport as we accompany our friends in the departure area at first i saw her hubby with a kid. I happily approached tito Y and asked where’s tita X. As he led me to the area where his family are sitting I can’t find Tita X. And a middle aged lady approach me whom I did not know but she’s with the daughter of my acquaintance. To make the story short, it was a big surprise to me that the lady who approached me was actually tita X. See if you’re going to undergo some nose job, do tell your friends or else you’ll not be noticed at all. Okay she looked better than her usual self but my only observation was her nose seemed to be bigger than the old one, only that it’s more pointed. And totally it made her look differently that I hardly noticed her. And imagine this I’ll go home for a vacation and when I come back my husband, my kids and my friends won’t recognize me anymore:) Never! 

Love your body, nourish it and be healthy. Acceptance is the only solution then you’ll be happy with yourself. Take care of your body and boost your self-esteem. Everyone is beautiful that’s why we are all uniquely made. Sometimes we just focus on our outer shell, our appearance but do we ask ourselves how we look in the inside? Are you beautiful in the inside?

Yeasterday morning I enjoyed a bonding time with my son in a different activity. We did not watched airplanes in You Tube as his new fascination or the  new “in thing” for him now (it’s like he has an inkling on becoming a pilot) nor watched his backyardigans, barney or little einsteins tv series in xbox but  we did some art activity, we did some painting. I’m so proud of his imagination of an airplane in an abstract form.

We’ll have ample time for rest, sleep, play, do some activities with the kids, or how about get in touch with the nature or hang out with friends and beach would be nice too! For 9 consecutive days starting tomorrow, there’ll be no early wake up calls, no work for Dad Nath and no school for Andrea. And i’m happy that Hiro came back! Happy Eid Everyone!

We are so thankful to Daddy God for the gift of LOVE!!!

How time flies so quickly, now we are nearing our 5^th wedding anniversary. Looking back, 5 years ago we are so young yet matured. We decided to start our family though we don’t know how to cook, we don’t know how to raise kids but we trusted our feelings, our deep love that make us compromise on things.

In retrospect, we had our share of the normal rollercoaster ride of marriage. We had our ups and downs but with our love we surpassed everything. In our five years, it’s full of surprises, adventures, joy, and courage to face every dilemma that comes our way. We complimented each other with our varying views on things. It was sometimes like what you’ve said “the taming of the shrew!” Lalo na pag “meron” I was so unpredictable and moody! But again with our undying love you changed me into a more wonderful person, for that I thank you.

We are not afraid of starting a family; despite all the hurdles we’ve proved them wrong, our detractors. We are so motivated that we coped on how to raise a family. We said to each other that we we’ll learn especially in taking care of our first born baby. As first timers we are sometimes on a trial and error mode. But then again it’s the parent’s intuition that guided us.

At first nobody knows how to cook except put the rice cooker on and then fry everything that comes in handy. That was the funny part almost all of our food were fried as we don’t know how to cook. But hey, how about my cooking after 5 years I guess nobody would disagree with me that somehow I’ve improved and you too! From simple cooking we’ve learned to cook new dishes and at a taste of liken to a pro’s cook menu.

We always enjoy planning ahead our short term and long term goals. And how can I forget the up to wee hour discussion and sharing of stories of our childhood. And we always discuss on how to come up with a more viable approach on saving more. Do you remember on how we saved a lot on our first year of marriage? We were so frugal those times. We always compare prices of everything that we buy and mostly bought stuffs that are basically needed and not out of mere wants. Of how we always love to concoct ways to improve our financial awareness and planned of retiring rich and young. Alas! I’ve blurted out that lines maybe now we could start to materialize it. (Grin!) Though we have lots of properties and other stuffs to brag about. (This line is for you aka Christy Fermin!) But I don’t want to sound too thankful by writing and specifying those stuffs  coz what’s important for me is the abundancy of love that we are blessed of and our kids.

We always discuss things that we are so open with our communication and feelings and we always make it up to each other if someone hurt one’s heart. I’m so thankful for this because lots of marriages fail due to some gap in their communication which hinders their growth as couples. I’m so thankful to be blessed with a loving husband with a golden heart as what I always tell you. And I’m thankful to Mama Sie and Papa San for raising such a wonderful person like you!

You are my best friend (even before pa), and my everything,

My lover and still my boyfriend (sometimes we pretend heheheh),

You are my gentle hubby and you are the best dad!

You are the sweetest gift that God gave me.

Happy Anniversary! I love you!

One fine weekend morning  while having our breakfast we found ourselves fascinated by one of the many amazing functions of my brothers new laptop. Silly us! or you might say, funny faces heheeheh:)

or how about these pictures?

Ate Shey’s Grand Birthday Celebration Part III: Kids Havin’ Fun

As the parents were enjoying the night chatting with friends while having dinner so as the kids in the party hall. They were running, chasing one another and other smaller imps were trying to hide under the tables.

Isn’t it nice to receive a gift with a stylish wrap or to give a gift with an extra touch? With so much birthday parties to attend to (mostly kiddie birthday parties) I always make sure to give a gift that would somehow make the celebrant more happy unless he/she is still a baby, in that case the mom will be the one smiling from ear to ear with a beautifully wrapped gift. I make sure that the gift would be functional or would be a source of delight to the receiver. I want that it would be a thing to cherish and be remembered.

For kids as much as possible I would give books and other educational toys and for the babies usually I go for a safer kind of gift it could be a beautiful pink dress with the emphasis on the size that somehow the baby could use the dress for a longer time. For newborn babies usually I would buy receiving blankets with mittens, with matching cap, booties and a dress.

For my friends usually I would give inspirational or most of the time recipe books. I’m happy to know that Sassy Lawyer would soon publish her Pinoy Food blog and this could be the best resipe book to give to those friends of mine who are still novice in the kitchen or to those who are newlyweds.

I use and recycle old shoe boxes, different kind of wrapping materials with different colors and textures. Any embelishment that could give a highlight to the gift and it became a habit of buying wrapping papers eventhough I don’t need one so that I wouldn’t be combing the city when the need arises.

My good finds are from Jarir Bookstore, Daiso, Al Rawnaq in Old Airport and some are from Carrefour.

This is just one of the many gifts that I fancy taking pictures before giving:

other pics are still in my other external hard disk show you later…

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Thanks to my hubby too, but dearie can you please make the fonts bigger? Mwah!