We are rather tight on the budget yet we still want to make it extra special today since it is his birthday and it had been rather a tradition for us to celebrate it there with their buffet offering when we have special occasions. Instead of traveling at this weekend which we wished we had but with a tight budget, we know we need to save and so we just had this brekkie buffet treat at the buffet resto in the international deluxe hotel located in the city. The fourth day is special too because it is their company’s Christmas party. There will be a bingo for the employees. Praying he will be one of the winners. It will help us financially with the coming Christmas and New Year’s day celebrations.

Thank you LORD!!!

We miss them and seeing these photos of her doing her work makes me realize it is indeed a blessing she has to have this work that sustains her family. It is her dream while it is also our dream for her and my nephew to be home for Christmas holidays but as the past years had been, she is always busy at work during the holiday season. We could just be thankful and keep in touch through the internet during this holiday season.

Those photos were taken during their great summer together. Summer parties are treasured there since they have winter now fast approaching. My sis said she loves to attend those parties given by friends. At one point she organized one and she asked me for some help for party invites. Thinking about it now maybe I could have suggested these Crab Boil Invitations which are great invites for some party with friends to eat some delicious seafood and have a great time with all your loved ones during summer. Their group of friends mostly love seafood. I would just go hungry looking at those photos they post and share of various seafood and crabs during their parties. Typical food for them during those sought after parties with friends which they say is a must “See Food” event to look forward to.

The little boy and I have a cough more than a week. We are both on antibiotics already and might need another checkup by this weekend back to the pedia. I hope the pedia (who is out for a week for a meeting or convention maybe due back tomorrow) is in by then and not the substitute lady pedia.

Lord Jesus heal us and lead us all to complete recovery and healing. Amen!

Time off from work and time off from online work for a few days to enjoy life offline. I got some things to do online that needs to be done regarding work and some tasks. The past few days gave us some time to enjoy the ordinary things offline that we missed. We both went to watch the soccer class of the lil boy yesterday. We usually watch when he is off from work too.

We watched Monte Carlo this afternoon while the lil boy was at school. We used the two complimentary passes in the Abreeza Ayala Mall Davao cinema that were given to us during the recent mall food tour. Thank you so much Abreeza Cinema! We enjoyed the movie! For the first time we watched a movie there that was free seating arrangement. We usually  have the guaranteed seat movies that means you cannot extend to the next showing of the movie. We wished to stay longer but we had to go and fetch the lil boy from school in an hour after the movie.

The weeklong off will end soon and we will be back to our daily routine. But with the Kadayawan Festival just two weeks away, we wish we could have another weeklong off from work for hubby. But I guess that would just be wishful thinking because there is work and work to do.

We gave hubby this leche flan roll from Red Ribbon for Father’s Day 2011. It is a simple cake roll we gave hubby. He knows we are on a tight budget. He appreciated the thought and the boys loved having their souvenir photos taken together carrying this one for Father’s Day.

We love eating this when served chilled. Though I think their brazo could have tasted better.

Sorry for the lettering dad for we know it’s a common comment with Red Ribbon unless they hire or train someone to do the job right for customer satisfaction! Anyway the guy from Red Ribbon said sorry for what he did and we cannot do anything for we were also in a hurry.

When he did find out though this morning that he will not be going to school, he begged instead to go to his only Lolo’s house. He actually meant my sister’s house where we went during the weekend. He loves to spend time with his cousins and play with them. They mostly spent time playing at my sister’s iMac. I gave her a hint if we could buy it second hand. Still it is expensive for us. so it remains wishful thinking. We will just go over her house during some weekends and let the boy play with his other cousins. If only our place is near my sister’s and my parents’ house, it will surely be fun weekends for the little boy.

Some mommies even say that this is like some kind of borrowed time that we moms should make the most of to show our kids our love and affection as much as we can while thye are still young because time will come that they might not like it as much as they do when they are still young. I pray the little boy will continue to bring us so many smiles, laughter, giggles, kisses and hugs each day even if he seems to be growing up faster than we could imagine.

Maybe we have to work out the schedule when the little boy is at school but that would mean doing some exercise past high noon during the day or when he has no duty at work. But one thing for sure, is I want him off the couch and help around the house and he knows that already. Sometimes i just let him sit there simply because I am a little tired telling him otherwise.

No it’s not me. Though all I can say is “so please help me God!”