It’s My Favorite Flower, My Lovely Gardenia

The month of May is always something I do look forward to because I know my lone gardenia shrub would not disappoint. It always gives me that heady and intoxicating scent every time I see a new bloom. Here’s a first for this year and lots more coming because almost every tip has a bud [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

This came  a bit late because I was quite busy preparing something for dinner. This is a special day for Mom and me after all. Early this morning, I texted my daughter Nissa saying: “Happy Mother’s Day for the soon to be Mom. I am sure when it’s your turn you’ll be a terrific mom [...]

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Mother Stories Make Me Cry

I watched the Monday edition of KrisTV this morning and they featured three successful mothers, actresses who were married to foreigners  and are happy with their married life. It’s so lovely to see Ina Raymundo’s kids greeting her with such loving words and G Toengie’s  foreign-looking kids speaking in Tagalog. They recounted their lives living [...]

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Life at 3pm

The heat is getting a little oppressive so staying in the garden and feeling the gentle breeze touch my cheeks is a welcome thing. This little corner is mom’s refuge every afternoon playing a game of Solitaire while our three dogs watch like silent sentinels at her side. The occasional sound of cars, motorcycles and [...]

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Goodbye April, Hello May

There were times in my past posts when I would blog about saying goodbye to the receding month and saying hello to the new one. Lately though, life has been a bit muddled so I completely forgot all about it.  April was uneventful except for the time that two more members of my online Apostolate [...]

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Hot, Hot Metro Manila

And I mean it is scorching! A friend sent me a message and asked why she could not see my blog, and I thought, “you mean  a new blog post?” It’s only been three days since I haven’t blogged here. Come to think of it, I am even too lazy to open my PC and [...]

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The Joys Of Living

If you’re following my blog you would definitely ask, “what, food again?” I am wondering myself why lately, my blogs are focused on food.  Summer definitely brings that hungry feel, because every time I open our fridge, I often wonder what to prepare for the next meal. So I’m done with the tortilla  but I [...]

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Tortilla Wraps

Nowadays with the temperature reaching to as much as 35°C  in Metro Manila, I find it so hard to prepare elaborate meals that would need staying in front of the stove for long.  What Josef and I do is to cook something that we could eat cold and won’t need lots of time to prepare. [...]

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Longganisa Pasta

That’s right, it’s been a meatless week for Josef and I just  thriving on  fish, vegetables, and canned tuna.  And it’s really a challenge to come up with a variety of dishes using fish. It was a form of sacrifice for us during the Holy Week and now we’re back to eating meat, just have [...]

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Save The Koi

Just came from The Last Supper Mass celebrated at St. Jude Parish a few hours ago. Josef and I were supposed to do our traditional Visita Iglesia this morning but we ended up staying home because of the disaster with our garden pond. He was cleaning the car and I was busy preparing breakfast when [...]

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