A happy lolo

It doesn't take much to make Lolo Pepot happy. Children have always been his soft spot. Having his own grandchildren has been his long time dream.

Your lolo has taught me so much about life, love and career. He always raised me with the right goals and priorities. God first, family second. All else comes after. Even business.

God has given us so many blessings. Lolo Pepot's health most especially. Like his father before him, your great grandfather Kukit, always handle the hard times by looking at it positively and have a good sense of humor. We come from a long line of corny comedians.

His next dream is to have you and Liam sleep next to him as your Tito Joey and I did. He's sentimental in so many ways. But he is right. Nothing comes close.

Simple joys

Langga, you should never be in a rush to grow up. Being grown up makes you wish you were back in your childhood. So make the most out of every experience, learn, love as much as you can.

Bringing you to places like Tita Pam's in Passi is a little glimpse of how I grew up. I want you to have the same and more. Simple joys are the best and those times will last forever.

Passi in itself holds so much of our own summer experiences. Thats where the cousins used to bond. All the kalokohan (good clean fun mind you), we had it there. Staying up all night over a bonfire, ghost stories, hiking, playing cards, drinking sodas like there was no tomorrow, stalking artistas during fiesta time... The list goes on. It was good fun and I wouldnt exchange it for anything.

So I will always try my best langga for you to have a balanced life. Centered on God, grounded by family.

I write this as you sleep beside me. I love you little mouse!

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Giving back to God

Read this in my devotional for today by Rick Warren:

The Bible says, "Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce." (Proverbs 3:9 NLT) This is the principle of tithing. It's the principle that says every time I make $100 -- the first $10 goes back to God.

Tithing is an act of worship. We're giving to God. We're saying, "All of it came from you anyway." God says, "Put me first in your life and watch what I do." You may think you can't afford to tithe, but the reality is, you can't afford not to.

Aug. 19, 2012

Lunch was at Afrique's Smallville with family and Ama's friends.

Dani tried pizza, pasta, garlic rice, pechay from the kare2, and yummy baby back ribs! Dani was so full but happy. She played with everyone including a group of Korean girls. They exclaimed that Dani's face and features look Korean. Well, Bryan and I were watching a lot of Korean dramas while I was pregnant.

I had to buy a gift for Honey and wrapper for Ama's birthday tomorrow. So on the way out, we had Dani try an arcade ride. Startled at first but by the end she wanted more and tried moving the ride herself!

Dani can now say a lot of words now. "Mama", "Papa", "Yaya", "baby", "weewee", "poopoo", "A", "E", "eye". She can also do cow, bee, dog sounds, too.

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An afternoon at Compania

After weeks of heavy rain, the sun finally gave us a great afternoon. Glad we planned a quick stop at Compania to visit Tita Pam, Tito Richie and Tito Mart.



While Dani played, we had our fill of food.




Tita Pam kindly took out her big pillow so that I could sit and play on the grass. The ground was still a bit wet from the rain.



Fun, simple memories to last us a lifetime.

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