I am a wife-the wind beneath my husband's wings... A mother-the protective arm around my two dynamos. When I am not being a wife and a mother, I am the woman comfortably nestled in "My Rocking Cradle".
It’s the new year, I know. But I haven’t blogged for a long time so I will still blog about Christmas:-). This is the picture of a Christmas with 10 adults and 10 kids in the family. I can’t imagine a Christmas outside of the Philippines, far from family. This is one tradition I don’t want [...]
With a large family like ours, gifts under the Christmas tree couldn’t be lesser than this: Little Dynamo received gifts from all the titos and the titas and of course, the lolo and the lola. He had been asking for his own laptop, so Hubby and I got him his own V-tech learning laptop which he [...]
Christmas carollers who go from houses to houses enliven the Christmas season. Check this out:
Our Little Dynamo is fortunate to spend another Christmas here in the Philippines. One tradition which makes it more exciting is the Christmas carolling. Children (even adults) go to houses and sing Christmas carols. The house owners gladly (some reluctantly, others grouchily) give money to the carollers. On Christmas eve, we had several carollers passing by the [...]
Do you wonder… who is more excited – the ones who wait or the ones who arrive? Such was the question I pondered upon while waiting for our flight for Manila on December 22. It’s the Christmas holidays and people are going home to their respective families to celebrate Christmas. In my case, I was [...]
While my son was sleeping this afternoon, I was writing his guest list for his upcoming 2nd birthday. And then… the Christmas season is coming. Oh yes, back in the Philippines, the Christmas season starts when the month ends with -ber. I wrote down our gift list. My parents, my husband’s parents, nieces and [...]
