Recycled Items

Do you recycle things in your home? Like using your plastic bags from the groceries and make it garbage bags? What do you do with the used bottles from your condiments and softdrinks? How bout the styro foam from the meat packages?

Way back home, my mama used to collect all this trash and sell it in junk shops. She's earning some coins from those junks. I was thinking if I can do the same here in AR hahahahaha but I don't think there's such a thing like that in here.

For now, I really can't just throw them away, I am thinking of something to make them usable again. I started with the boxes, my kids love to write and draw but we have no enough business office supplies yet so for the meantime I am cutting these boxes into rectangle or square and tadah.... they have their drawing paper already!

boxes of their pancake and biscuits

Ethan drawing

See how can these junk become useful again?

Other stuff like I mentioned above were all useful to me. I am not throwing them immediately especially the bottles, they can use for storing foods or left over condiments like tomato sauce from cans, etc. Some stuff can't be recycled and can't be used for several so better throw it once you you have used it.

Try recycling too, it's fun and most importantly we're helping to save our environment.

Food Trip Friday #2 Chocolates Please!

Another happy food trip Friday everyone!

Just wanna share my secret box in the fridge - a pot of gold!

This is HERSHEY pot of gold, combination of milk and dark chocolates. Can someone give me some more chocolates but not DARK please. I know dark chocolates are better than regular chocolates, I can eat it but I am not enjoying it. But If someone wants to give me dark chocolates, I would still love and eat it don't worry. Just requesting for non-dark.

One Peaceful Afternoon

I was wondering how come my surroundings were very silent yesterday afternoon. My kids just had their lunch then they played a little then I noticed they were not that hyper to play like what they used to do during that hour. I asked Ethan if he's sleepy (coz he's always having his nap time, but not that early) and he said yes so I cuddled him and scratch his back so he could be able to sleep. After few minutes, Ethan was already sleeping and to my surprise, Ate Ishi was also asleep! That's the first time she took her nap ever since we arrived here. I guess that's because she woke up early that morning when their daddy kissed her goodbye.

So this was the first time I had my peaceful afternoon even just for an hour.

Last Christmas' Gifts

Last Christmas is not so merry for us, that was the very first time we were not together. Yes it's sad but we just enjoyed it. Dad spent his christmas with his pinoy co-workers while me and my kids spent ours with dad's family. We may be far from each other but we are blessed because there are many ways to keep in touch now and for us was via SKYPE.

My kids enjoyed their gifts from their dad, a buzz light year robot for Ethan and a baby alive for Ishi. I also loved dad's gift for me - a fossil wrist watch!

Ishi was so happy to have her baby alive

Ethan can't hide his big grin when he opened Buzz :D

bragging my beautiful face, I mean my watch :D

I can't think of any affordable gift for daddy that time so I decided to make him something he can't get just anywhere and something personalized like coaches gifts. I love personalized items so I gave him a fleece blanket with our kids pictures in it. That may not be as expensive as other christmas gifts but he loved it. While were far from him, that blanket will remind him that we were always there for him. Aw! Sweet.

Here's the fleece blanket, now that were here, my kids love to use it.

front

back

Now that were all together now, I think we all got the best gift ever in this world!

Playing in our Kitchen#1 Pinoy Style Spaghetti

I started practicing and or should I say inventing foods when I arrived here. I am not the type of person who love to cook maybe because I never had my own kitchen that time. But now is different, I am more excited now and inspired.

Just wanna share my Pinoy Spaghetti. It was my first time to cook spaghetti using tomato sauce and tomato paste. In the Philippines I often use ready made pinoy sweet style spaghetti sauce. I am so proud I made a sweet style using tomato sauce hahahahah!

my special ingredients, measurements based on my instincts, lol.

my pinoy style spaghetti with garlic bread

My kids and hubster love it!

Wondering what will I experimetn/cook again next time :D

Memorable Surprised Party

1 month before I leave the Philippines, I set different dates with different friends while doing my errands. I made sure I have to say bye bye to them especially to those people I haven't tagged along lately. I thought 1 month is too long, I actually can't wait to fly here already but as those days passed by, I felt like I am becoming more lonely yet excited. Lonely because I will surely miss these people. Excited of course because I already want to be with our daddy.

I will never forget these people who showed their love to me before I left. The words "i will miss you" is very touching already, but giving me a surprised despedida party is a different level. I felt like I am so special and loved. For 29 years of my life, this is only 2nd surprised party I ever had but I feel so much blessed, blessed with friends that loves me. I am very thankful to these guys! I will forever treasure this memorable party! Thank you thank you so much!

I was browsing again in our pics and I can't help myself to laugh whenever I remembered how it was happened! Joy invited Nora and I to watch a show that night as a treat for me. I was dressed up differently, it's my first time to wear hills after a long time with matching scarf. And when I entered (3o minutes late prior to our call time) Joy's unit at Legend Villas - our meeting place, I was thinking how come Nora wasn't there yet knowing her for being very punctual and one more thing was Joy wasn't dressed yet. My mind didn't bother to think about it but asked Joy instead why she's checked-in in legend villas again. She said her family just wanted to stay there and then asked me to come with her upstairs so she could dress up already. While going inside the room I was shocked when Joy turned on the light and I was like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh", not because I was surprised but because I got startled at first. Hahahahha! Imagine you were busy asking questions and suddenly these bunch of mommies popped out and shouted "surprise"!

Oh so sweet! I have this aftershock reaction that I don't know what to say nor what to do...They are so CUTE! They were all wearing pajamas! My dream party! I don't know if I told them about it already, PAJAMA party is actually my dream party! Thank you again mommies! You are all sweet! I love you!!!!

Thanks to Joy whom I think is the mastermind, she provided the venue - Legend Villas Hotel! I was lucky I have met you! Mwah!

To ALL that was there that night, Peh, Joy, Nora, Bedai, Jenny, Jingkie, Lyn, Tetcha and Jenny...thank you for all your effort. Thank you for the wonderful decors, yummy foods, wines, cake and for some additional gifts! Thanks for the Swarovski Crystal beads or whatever how it calls, I just love it Tetcha! Thanks or the dangling earrings Jenny even it seemed like your favorite, you still gave it to me and I appreciate it. Thanks for the lens cleaner Nora and thank you again Joy for my bonnet and scarf, mwah! Thanks to all of you!

more pics in my other blog :D

Till we meet again! I will surely our bonding!

Loving My New Territory

Ever since I got married, I never felt like I'm the queen of my kingdom, do you know what I mean? I'm sure if you are living with your parents or in-laws you know what I mean.

I am not against in living with in-laws, I actually love our situation back when we were in the Philippines, living in my husband's house with my in-laws is a big help for they have done so much for us and I am very thankful to them. But as a wife, I dreamed for having our own and living on our own. We have no choice back then since husband and I were both not really prepared so we stayed in his old room and start in there.

But now is a big change for us. We were totally solo now. Me, my husband and my two kiddos in our new home, alone! I so love it! I know this would be hard for me but eventually I will surely get used to it. I am already expecting cooking our own food, washing our clothes, cleaning the dishes, cleaning the house and all were all tiring but NOT for me as of the moment. Yes It's tiring but not that hard (I guess for now) coz I am enjoying it. Maybe because I am still excited and maybe because the appliances were just totally amazing! I love how the appliances works here, they're totally amazing. I love the washing machine were you can just put the used clothes and wait till the timer stops while I go online (big grin)or do another stuff and wallah...done! We are not complete on all the appliances we need yet, we still need vacuum cleaner, some utensils and water filter since we were getting water directly from the faucet. Thanks to daddy's friend who gave us a pitcher with filter on it so we have something to use now for drinking.

I am excited with our new house, this is my dream, to manage our home and do whatever I want with it!

Our place may not be as big as others but I LOVE it! This is our first HOME, my real territory!

Foor Trip Friday #1 Fabulous Cake

Hello everyone! It's my first time here!

Here's my very first entry - a channel bag and a jimmy choo shoes.

Nah,of course NOT, it's a food meme right, I'm sure I'm not lost coz my entry here is a CAKE made by a friend for another friends' birthday last week :)

Happy Food Trip Friday!

Dad's 'Pork Giniling' SOLD OUT!

Daddy did the cooking again last night!

When we arrived here, daddy was always cooking our meal (except for breakfast and rice, that's my job. lol) but Daddy is busy sometimes so I don't like bothering him to cook for us anymore and take his rest instead. Last night, I supposed to cook but he claimed the cooking before he left for work so I did let him when he came home in the evening. He seem inspired and not busy at the same time maybe because the last time he cook ADOBO for us, the kids loved it and they ate a lot!



This time he cooked 'pork giniling', I prepared the ingredients as always, coz he don't like cutting and peeling, he just wanna cook.



I let the kids join us in our kitchen, I asked them to peel off the boiled egg while me cleaning up my mess in the sink.

After few minutes, the meal is ready...

...and kids ate a lot again!



Pork Giniling - SOLD OUT!

Everybody's plate is empty except for Ishi for she had another batch of rice in her plate.

What a nice and happy dinner. I'm sure daddy was very fulfilled cooking!

Together Again,...atlast!

I don't know if it's because of jetlag or whatever that is making me so hard to realize I was here already. I was here with my husband already...hello ARKANSAS! How come I feel li
ke in shock and don't feel anything different except for I wanna hug my husband every minute

My kids were so happy to see their dad, no matter how tired they were in our more than 24 hours trip plus the delay in NARITA Airport in JAPAN, they were still very energetic when they see their dad.

If you could only see how Ishi and Ethan ran so fast to their Daddy when they saw him...it was a touching scene. I love it!

Here are some pics taken when we arrived...

1130pm (AR time) when we arrived...

Kids ran off and hop on to their daddy!

Oh sweet little angels :)

Ishi is not yet finished with her 'paglalambing' ... fasten your seat belt and let's get some dinner!

Drive thru @ Mc Do :D

Time to go inside our New Home!

Daddy and kids' time...

Welcome to our New Home :D

We had Mc Donalds for dinner...

Daddy showed the kids' room ...

Water before going to bed...

Now time to sleep :)