Friendship Chain

Thank you so much Enchie of Sweet Nothings, Mys of Thoughts and Obsessions, and Beng of Beng’s Entertainment Spree for this Friendship Chain.


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This is the easy way and the fastest way to :

1. Make your Authority Technorati explode.

2. Increase your Google Page Rank.

3. Get more traffic to your blog.

4. Make more new friends.

Rules :

1. Start copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy” to your blog.
2. Put your own blog name and link.
3. Tag your friends as much as you can.

1.Picturing of Life 2. Juliana’s Site 3. Hazel-My Life, My Hope, My Future.4. Jeanne-The Callalily Space5.My Family is my Life 6. The Simple Life of a Baghag 7. On A Wonderful Day Like Today 8. House Everything 9. The Creativity in Me 10. Travel and Photography 11. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 12. You Are My Sunshine 13.Song to Remember 14. Super Blog 15. Philiippine Tv Marathon 16.Simply Blue 17. Breaking the Boundaries 18. Top Five 19. A Simple Life 20. Simple Happy Life 21. A Great Pleasure 22. Glossa~licious 23. Time Goes By 24. Sweet Nothings 25. Thoughts and Obsessions 26. Beng’s Entertainment Spree 27. Pensive Thoughts 28. You're Next!
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I’m passing on this Friendship Chain to the following:

Rachel of Heart of Rachel
Kaye of WAHMaholic
Cecile of Life Is Good and Beautiful
Race of Beyond Horizons
Juliet of My Pastime
Beth of trust.loyalty.bliss
Online Mommy of Online Mommy’s Corner
Hazel of Delineating Des

What a Week!

This week has not been very good to me, and I’m glad it’s almost over. Last Tuesday, my computer wouldn’t boot up. I panicked because I haven’t backed up all of my recent office files stored on my PC. To add insult to injury, I lost my Internet connection at home. I had no choice but to go to our office to work. It’s only today, Saturday, that Globe finally fixed the problem, although I don’t want to be too complacent about that.

It turned out that my five-year old PC (yes, you heard that right) badly needs to be defragged, and now it’s working perfectly fine again, thank you. (God must have heard my prayer as we still don’t have a budget for a replacement.) I’ve worked for a total of 3 days in the office this week; that could have been four if I wasn’t absent on July 1st to accompany my husband to his doctor’s appointment.

Now, what am I saying here? After working from home for almost one year now, I have realized that I don’t want to go to work in the office anymore because it’s too taxing physically because I still have to drop my son to school and wait until he’s settled before I could leave for work and because I have to suffer the scorching heat as I cross the Ortigas footbridge, mentally because I’m missing the chance to know what my son is doing the whole day which working from home allows, and financially because now I have to pay for transportation and food if I haven’t prepared packed lunch and snack.

I hope the coming week will be better.

Mommy Moments: Encounter with Pets or Animals

I was having second thoughts about participating in this week’s theme. You see, my son Justin only had one chance to own a pet. A month before Christmas last year (he was 2 years and 4 months old then), his Dad bought him a fish and a small aquarium. I was able to take a photo of the fish, but none of my son with that fish. I was also able to blog about it in this post.

That fish has long been dead and done, and we haven’t bought any other pet since then. Since we have limited space in the condo, owning a bigger pet, such as a dog, is not really advisable; besides, I’m afraid he just might be bitten by it. We have also not taken him to a zoo yet, so he doesn’t really have that much encounter/experience with animals.

Let me share instead some stories about my son when it comes to pets and pests (Pests are also animals, right?).

His first pet (fish) – He was fascinated with his first pet that he even hugged the aquarium and said “I love you” to his pet.

Ants – Whenever he sees ants, he would step on them or slap them hard with his hands, and he won’t stop until they’re lifeless. Poor creatures!

Cockroach – He’s afraid of cockroaches, even the dead ones lying on the road/floor. He would stop walking if he sees one, and he wouldn’t budge until you convince him that the cockroach is really dead and would not be able to do him any harm.

For more children’s encounter with pets/animals, visit Chris’ The Mommy Journey.

Top Entrecard Droppers for June 2009

A big thanks goes to the following people for their relentless visits and EC drops on my site for the month of June. You are awesome, guys! Thank you so much!

Online Marketing
Cacai’s Step and Journey
my review
Zero
photodito
MARKFE
Living well
Bits and Pieces
Mom’s Place
Moments of My Life

Foiled Vacation

We're supposed to have arrived today from a four-day, three-night stay in Palawan via Philippine Air Lines. It was supposed to be Justin’s first plane ride and mommy’s second. It was supposed to be our first family vacation. But we had to back out at the last minute because of the A(H1N1) threat. Never mind if my husband already paid for our non-refundable airline tickets. Never mind that it might take long before we can plan another trip again. There’ll be other times for us to travel. The timing is just not perfect. We’re much safer where we are right now, in our home sweet home.

One Word Meme

I've been tagged by Race of Beyond Horizons, Kaye of RandomWAHMThoughts and onlinemommy of Online Mommy's Corner.

USING ONLY ONE WORD! It’s not as easy as you might think! Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It’s really hard to use only one-word answers. Be sure to tag the person who sent it to you!

1. Where is your cell phone? Under the pillow
2. Your hair? Brown
3. Your mother? Resourceful
4. Your father? Dependable
5. Your favorite food? Rice
6. Your dream last night? None
7. Your favorite drink? Lemonade
8. Your dream/goal? Travel
9. What room you are in? Bedroom
10. Your hobby? Blogging
11. Your fear? Dogs
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Philippines
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. Something that you aren’t? Lazy
15. Muffins? Blueberry
16. Wish list item? Money
17. Where you grew up? Makati
18. Last thing you did? Worked
19. What are you wearing? Eyeglasses
20. Your TV? Hyundai
21. Your pets? None
22. Friends? Online
23. Your life? Okay
24. Your mood? Relaxed
25. Missing someone? Jo
26. Car? None
27. Something you’re not wearing? Shoes
28. Your favorite store? Ministop
29. Your favorite color? Yellow
30. When is the last time you laughed? Today
31. Last time you cried? Dunno
32. Who will resend this? Me
33. One place that I go to over and over? Mall
34. One person who emails me regularly? BuyBlogReviews.com
35. My favorite place to eat? Icebergs

Now, I'm tagging the following people: Melanie, Juliana, Phoebe, Genejosh and Mys.

Mommy Moments: School Days

Just in case I won’t have Internet connection for the rest of the day and until tomorrow, I’m posting my entry now using my phone as modem while I still have cell phone load.

Because Justin enjoyed his five-week summer class and he’s the right age, we enrolled him in nursery for this school year. Classes in their school officially started last June 17, and I say I’m one excited mom! I made my mornings less hectic so I can accompany him to and from school, which is very near our place, by the way.

He’s just been attending class for a week now because classes for preschool were suspended yesterday and today due to typhoon Feria. He’s actually getting bored just staying in the house and playing. I really think he missed school.

Justin is still quite clingy, but last Tuesday, I left his classroom to be with the other parents waiting at the lounge for their children. He cried a little, but he soon forgot about mommy as soon as I was out of his sight. He was even grinning widely when their class was dismissed. “Did you cry?” I asked him. “No,” he said, but he did.

He still actively participates in all their classroom activities, but I noticed he gets distracted and a little bit bored sometimes probably because they now have a three-hour class as against their two-hour summer class last May. He’s gotten a little bit more complacent, too, that he sometimes doesn’t listen to his teachers (two teachers are assigned per classroom) like when he’s asked to lie down on the mat during rest time. He doesn’t want to rest; he wants to play after recess.


Justin during play time


Justin doing “Ring around the Rosie” with his classmates


Justin proudly wearing his school shirt
For more School Days stories, head on over to The Mommy Journey.