The Story of my Life

I rediscovered the goodness of Pomelo and other citrus fruits since I've gotten pregnant. And to this day, I make it a point to get a daily dose of either mandarin or pomelo, thereby making pomelo and mandarin a staple in our household.

Got a text from Husbo just now.

Husbo : Hi Baby! Kick mommy if you want to say hi to Daddy.

Ang kuleeeeeeeeeeet! hahahaha

It is true, that when you're pregnant, your feet get bigger. At 5 3/4 months, I could hardly fit in in my size 5 shoe. Well, to put it more accurately, I still could get my feet in but it doesn't feel comfortable walking in them anymore.


So last weekend, while waiting for the husbo at Glorietta, I grabbed these pairs at Parfois.

Got a size 6 of this for P1,040. Not bad eh?

This one I got for P1,380.

Thanks, Gil, for introducing Parfois to me.

Read from Chuvaness about 25 Mushrooms and now I'm itching to enroll! One class that I super want to enroll in is the Thai class. You see, the past few days, the husband has been going crazy over Thai food.

These classes are a steal for P1,100 per session! The only downside is that classes happen on weekdays so I will have to take a leave, which I don't mind at all. I can get a few days off from work if I have to. But lemme think about it.

For the Thai Class, the recipes are: Pomelo salad, Tom Yum soup, bagoong rice, steamed fish with coriander, chili, garlic, phad Thai, green chicken curry, sticky rice with mangoPlus: Recycling basics, kitchen hygiene and personal hygiene.

21 weeks based on Babycenter, but as per my counting, I'm already at 22 weeks. My bump is really showing and it's twice harder to fit in my old clothes (read: shorts and pants). I've also started buying more maternity pants and dresses for work.


Anyway, I got excited when I read this alert from Babycenter.ph.

And I feel like baby also read the article because this week I've been feeling her light touches (or maybe kicks and punches?) regularly, mostly in the morning and afternoon. Today alone, when I was convincing myself to get up (for an hour), I felt baby's soft touches again as if saying "mom, you're late. you better get up."

Dearest Hon,

Happy happy birthday. Although today doesn’t seem like a special day because of all your stress at work and school, I hope that you feel God’s love embracing you as you reach your 32nd birthday. You’ve been a loving husband, an excited father, a caring son and a dependable friend so you deserve a peaceful and blissful day.

Today, I hope that we made you feel loved more than the way you love us. You’ve been a great husband to me and I don’t regret walking down the aisle for you. All the sacrifices you’ve made to make our family-life delightful are all appreciated. So today, I have these wishes for you, hoping that God will grant them:


I wish that your client will be kinder to you today.

I wish that God brings out an aura of peace and compassion to you so that your client will be infected by it.

I wish that your Professor will somehow extend the deadline of submission of plates to give you more time to work on it.

I wish that the weather won’t be too hot today while your at the site so you won’t feel stinky and dirty while doing your job.

I wish that you’ll have enough energy to sustain you today despite the lack of sleep from working late for your plates.

I wish that the traffic to work will not be as bad as it normally is so you can be there early.

I wish that your new project will go smoothly and that your new clients will be as warm as the previous couple you worked with.

I wish you’ll have another project by mid-year.

I wish that Struktura will be stronger and bigger in the design industry this year.

I wish that you’ll never get tired of my cooking nor bringing out the trash as needed.

I wish that you can learn how to efficiently juggle your time for work, school family and self. I’m not complaining, I just wish that you can do the things you want without sacrificing others that are equally important.

I wish that you’ll be as patient as always with my tantrums, kakulitan and non-sense.

I wish that you’ll never get tired of puttig me to sleep everytime you need to stay up late for work and school.

I wish that this year, you’ll have more time for exercise so you can be as fit as you once were. Hehe

I wish that you’ll learn to regularly drink your vitamins. :)


I wish that you’ll learn how to cook. Hehehe

I wish that you’ll eventually learn how to read to our children, with emotion and enthusiasm. :)

I wish that our first born will be a healthy baby boy so that he can be just like you…responsible, caring and loving. What a joy that would be if I had two men caring for me! Bu if God wills to have a baby girl, I hope that she’ll be as malambing as you want her to be, hugging and kissing you when your stressed, and lovingly removes your socks when you’re too tired and sleepy to take them off by yourself.

And most, importantly, I wish that you feel how much love I have for you everyday of our lives together.

There’s so much more I’d want for you to have but this will be a loooooooong post if I write them all in, so I will stop here.

Happy birthday, Jerome! See you later.

In an effort to make our home clutter-free, I went through our stuff and threw away those that we hardly use. I plan to make this an annual effort, so help me God.

I started doing our room as there's one corner in our bedroom that seems to be the "tambakan" of almost everything. I hate that corner and I've been meaning to clean it every since but never had the chance. So last week, while the husbo was working, I finally did. Here's what I took out from that corner.

I wanted to clean the storage room but realized there are a lot of stuff in that room that requires lifting so I asked the helper to clean it. She did some reorganizing but not throwing away. So basically, there are still some useless stuff in there. Hope to go through them one of these days.

I also want to let go some of our old clothes especially those of the husbo. Because, really, they're eating up too much space in our closet and, most importantly, when the baby comes we will need that space.

Let's see.

If I could sum up 2010 for me, I would say that 2010 marked the beginning of a new life for me. New home, new responsibilities, new job, new car, etc.

The past year has been good to me and I praise God for that. From a tumultous 2009, he made 2010 peaceful, fun and full of love and happiness.

January

Married the man of my dreams.
Honeymoon at KL and Bali

February

Joined ADB Volleyball club’s beach volleyball at Bora with the Husbo.
Husbo and I decided to our own house which we can move into by May this year.

March

Travelled to Balai Isabel with the Husbo on the first visit, then with his family on the second visit.
Bought my first (laptop)computer.

April

Ultimate roadtrip with Husbo to Thunderbird Poro Point La Union then to The Lighthouse, Subic, and then finally back to Manila. On the way to Subic, Krugger broke down, we had to be towed out of SCTEX and commute from Bataan to Subic for our overnight stay.

May

Visited Hamilo twice with (1) Jom’s college friends; and (2) Struktura and my college friends.
Roadtrip again, but this time to Bataan for the ADB annual summer outing.
Got my advance birthday gift from the Husbo.

June

We started to seriously work on having a baby.
We got Beamer.

July

Had a minor procedure done.

August

Saw CATS the Musical.
Joined my first non-ADB Badminton Tourney.
Impromptu trip to Tagaytay with the BigBarks.

September

Celebrated my 32nd birthday in Cebu.
Got our first brand new family car.
We found out that I was 6 weeks pregnant!

October

We bid farewell to Krugger.
I was ordered to bed-rest for 3 weeks because I had spottings.

November

Got back to work again after a long period of rest.

December.

Had a glimpse of my baby thru the ultrasound. Such an amazing experience!
This year, we're expecting to move in to our new home and having our little bundle of joy. I also hope that this year, God will shower us with more love and happiness.

A prosperous new year, everyone!

Adventures.

Trying new things.

Going to new places.

Dinners and breakfasts together.

Talking.

Roadtrips.

Laughing.

Crying.

Sharing thoughts.

Kulitan.

Surprises.

Asaran.

Warm hugs.

Sweet Kisses.

Shopping.

Partying,

Travelling.

Making dreams into reality.

Praying together.

Loving.

These and many more made up our first year as husband and wife. No words can describe how happy marrying Jerome has made me, and now that we are expecting a little angel, I know its gonna be double the happiness I feel now.

This Christmas is extra special for me and the husbo because its the first year he and i celebrated it as husband and wife. And it follows that we also spent christmas with two families.

Thank you Hon! Love you. Let's get your car bumper na!

I'm a sucker for Christmas decors so I couldn't let Christmas pass without decorating, for the first time, our lovely abode. Had these made early in December. It's only now that I got to take pictures..bummer!

The main door.

The Living Area.

We got these little santas from World Trade Center in one of our shopping trips. How's that for 3 for 500 bucks?

The Dining Room. (Apologies for the yellowish color. Forgot to adjust the settings.)

I wanted a christmas tree in the house, but because of the lack of space, we settled with what we can grab to give it the christmas touch. Not bad, eh?

All these, of course, was put up with assistance. Thanks to Armands!

My head is still throbbing due to lack of sleep and my feet are still sore. Had our MBA year-end party in our home which means Husbo and I were busy playing host and hostess. As usual, it was a riot. Parties with these people are usually like that, and it's not because of just one person, it's because everyone is makulit and rowdy all at the same time. I can just imagine how disturbing we were to our neighbors last night, and I can't really blame them. Everyone was speaking at the top of their lungs and laughing to their heart's delight.

The Earlybirds: Jom, Me, Des, Kathy, Jayvee and Romeo



This is all of us. Only one person is missing: Wilson
From L-R: Enganged couple Patchi and JV, Ching, Rome, Ritchie, Jason, Kathy, Jayvee, Des, Jom and I

Borrowed a friend's template of Panahon Ko `To and tweaked the questions to make it more appropriate for a Christmas party. Had 3 groups of 3, with each group having someone represent the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Group 1 - Kathy (70s), Des (80s) and Jason (90s)
Group 2 - Jayvee (70s), Ching (80s) and JV (90s)
Group 3 - Rome (70s), Ritchie (802) and Patchi (90s)

Knowing how much these people hate admitting their age, I grouped them without telling which era they were representing. It was up to them to admit which era they belong to for as long as someone will say the magic words: Panahon ko `to!

To which Ritchie replied: Panahon ni Rome yan!

Ritchie answered: Tinimbang ka ngunit kulang.

Rome: Panahon ko `to! Bell bottom. Nagsusuot kasi ang ako ng bell bottoms nung 90s.

Kathy: Panahon ko `to! Disney Channel?

Everyone burst out in laughter knowing that Kathy was way mature than the rest of us, we can't accept there's Disney Channel in the 70s.

Ching: Panahon ko-nya to! (pointing at JV)

Weng weng, as you know, became popular in the 70s. Ching realized she was answering a question relevant in the 70s and she doesn't want to be identified in the 70s era.

Ritchie was the first to raise his hand with this question but couldn't let out the answer. Kathy, who belonged to the other group blurted out the answer with inip...Spray Net!

After the game, we had white elephant exchange gift.

Up next, we played the walang-kamatayang Pinoy Henyo.

Des and Ching seemed like they were on drugs that night, heckling and doing just anything to disturb the person on the seat. Super hyper mode these two ladies!

Ching: English?

Hindee

Ching: Tagalog

Hindee

Ching: Shet? Ano to? Espanyol?

The night ended a little past midnight. The house was a mess, of course, and my feet were soooo tired. But it was all worth it. Had a great time. I'm usually one of the most makulit in the group but because of my condition, had to lay low. I sooooo missed these guys.

Last week marked the beginning of lots of parties to usher in the Holidays. I'm loving the holidays, because for the first time in so long I can eat whatever I everything (in moderation of course).

First, the Badminton Club Party. Which I don't have a photo of.

Second, Life is Shorts party of the Volleyball Club. Where I took home 500 worth of GCs.

Then the OGC Mardi Gras Year-End Party, where the party was so colorful. And for the first time, I felt deprived of alcohol so I ordered a glass of wine for props and smelling purposes. hehehe

And then, one PS arrived in Policeman costume who rocked the house down.

Finally, there is the Christmas party with my YDWTL family. The first time in 6 years of being a Dazer that I was able to attend it.

My monthly check up with my OB is coming up. And with all the food I ate, got worried that I might have gone over the weight limit for this month. Luckily, I only gained 3lbs. Hooray to that!

More parties lined up in the next two weeks. Will keep you posted.

Thanks to friends for the photos.