Three Years of Happiness-Akyn’s 3rd Birthday

Today, marks the third year of an overflowing joy of having Akyn. Happy birthday baby. He is not just a fruit of our union. He’s an answered prayer for our marriage. If you’ve read from my first few posts when I started this blog site, you might as well already knew I had a miscarriage during my first pregnancy. It was devastating. A pain in which a mother would find it difficult to endure. I prayed and prayed hard to survive that ordeal. Never did I loose hope of conceiving again despite having to go through with such painful event.... Read More

Christmas Pool and Dinner Family Gathering

How was your Christmas celebration? I had one of the happiest, simple yet memorable. As agreed, we stayed in our house to celebrate the Holiday season. Yey! For the very first time, finally our little home was filled with happiness during the most joyful season of the year. We used to celebrate it in my parents home. I’m thankful everyone was happy about my suggestion. Because I am the host for tonight, I had to take charge of the preparation. My list for the grocery items were all prepared at the back of my head. Do you also do that... Read More

Pre Birthday Shoot Session with Akyn

Doing a pre-birthday shoot may be a little bit pricey if you’ll contact a professional photographer to do a personalized photo session. I’ve tried inquiring one and the initial charge was for a package of P10,000. The output samples were nice but I find it too expensive. What Mon and I did instead was to find something cheaper where we can save more. We bought a Woody costume through Shopee.  Akyn’s overall get-up including the hat was about P500. Then, we went to a photo studio, chose their glamour shots with free picture frames already. Our total expenses was only... Read More

Family Manito Manita

We started our family Manito Manita on the second week of December and had everyone picked the names to whom they are going to give the gifts to. It’s a bit late when we started our Kris Kringle activity compared to the previous years. You know how the busy schedule of a working momma like me may sometimes leave other commitments missed unintentionally.☺ From six participants, we now have a total of seven Manitos/Manitas adding our newest member of the family, Eric. He is my sister’s boyfriend. Yay! The more, the merrier. After everyone had their assigned Santa Clause, next... Read More

Pain Attack

Not all bad things happen because they were meant to let people suffer. Rather, I've just realized these unfortunate circumstances occurred to open some doors for us to appreciate simple things in life that we can consider as priceless. A week ago, I was forced to stay at home to recover from my swollen left foot. The pain was so sudden the night before the pain attack leaving me unprepared to face it. I haven't slept well the whole evening suffering from the excruciating pain. Even the weight of my soft blanket touching my foot seemed already unbearable. The following... Read More

Pillow Souvenir

I promised in my previous blog topic (My Personal Tarpaulin Maker) that I will be posting a separate post regarding our Akyn’s birthday souvenir. So, here it is. We had several ideas on what to use like mugs, key chains, fridge magnets, etc. There are so many options leaving me confused to decide which one to choose. During our Akyn’s Christening we had a do-it-your own teddy bear made of bath towels. The souvenirs perfectly matched with our brown Teddy Bear theme. The tags were also made by Mon. A project made with love for baby Akyn. [gallery ids="8581,8580" type="rectangular"]... Read More

Manila Trip

“Last call for passengers Michelle and Jazzie for flight from Cebu to Manila.” We were already half walking, half running while looking for our gate number and when this message was announced, we run like crazy competing for a marathon with Jazzie’s shoelace left untied. I didn’t mind all those eyes watching us and their unwanted comments on why we weren’t able to ask for assistance earlier before the boarding schedule. I thought I can only see it on TV, passengers running trying to catch their flights. I never knew we got to understand the raw feelings of it through... Read More

Akyn’s Bicycle

We couldn’t hold back our excitement to see our Akyn’s happiness in getting his new Woody toy. If you can remember in my previous blog post, we promised to give his surprise gift on his third birthday. I’m sorry to admit but we gave in to our urge to surprise him early. It’s our frailty as his parents to witness his genuine joy every time. I know parents can relate to this. ☺ We gave him his talking Woody last weekends. Can you imagine how the little Woody fan reacted seeing his favorite Toy Story character? It was priceless! I... Read More