Ordinary things that make my life extraordinary.
I just want to re-post this photo of my son playing in the inflatable pool at my mother’s garden several summers ago.
I found Nemo in the pool, MamaGirl!
My son and his cousins love their grandma’s kiddie pool, bought especially for them when they visit. True, it is small and contain limited amount of water, but that didn’t stop them from splashing around and having fun. That’s what’s important, isn’t it?
Not rebels as in revolutionary rebels, fighting for their ideology.
They are rebels, fighting for a goal or goals.
Before you think of anything else, here’s my husband and the other members of the Roxas City Rebels, one of Roxas City’s football teams.
They are in a practice session, preparing for their match in the coming weekend. Go, go, Rebels!
Saw this statue of a pair of parrots with yellow crown at Isdaan sa Gerona Restaurant in Gerona, Tarlac.
They are really pretty birds. The real ones, I mean.
How do we win this game?
This is probably what my son and his cousins were discussing while taking a break from their football training.
They’re enrolled at the free summer football clinic in Roxas City. The three enjoyed the “play” but after three days, only one remained running — and that’s the little one in the middle. The older ones, her sister (left) and cousin, my son (right), gave up because their legs and feet hurt, so they both say. Lol.
I have to thank my husband for not only taking our son but also the girls to the football clinic. The summer football clinic is held at the Villareal stadium. Thanks to activities like these, many kids are having fun this summer. If this is an initiative of our city government, kudos to your effort. I hope many more fun activities will be offered – for free – for children every year.
I guess I’m a tad too late for the Easter greetings, lol.
I found this photo in one of albums. I looked goofy, didn’t I? This was taken when we (my younger sister and I) took family members to the zoo on their first visit to Pampanga. My mother, niece, my son and their nanny loved the place! We all took turns having our photo taken with this yellow bunny.
My husband and son flew to Roxas City this morning and I miss them already. My husband is resuming his job as a government worker. My son will be enrolled in a new school while I stay in Pampanga and wait till the baby comes before I head home as well. My mother and father is coming over next month to be with me. Which is really great coz I’m in dire need of companion, other than my sister. After I give birth, all three of us are going back to Roxas. So for me, it will be another chapter as MamaGirl, with baby number two in tow 
Seen through the glass walls of the airport is the skyline of Metropolitan Manila.
The yellow cars on the right side of the photo looked like a fleet of yellow taxi cabs. I might be wrong, considering my distance from the said area.
The summer heat in the Philippines is just unbearable for this pregnant mama. All I want to do is just take a shower again and again and again. If not only for the sight of our growing pile of laundry, I would have done so already.
Also the heat is making me feel nostalgic about my short volunteer stint in Kenya. So I opened my photo album named My Kenyan Adventure and looked at the photos again. The memories came back in a flash as if they happened only recently. Like this particular photo:
These children are from Lucy Village in Kisumu. I just love how bright their smiles are.
I remember this particular photo as if it happened only yesterday. My volunteer assignment had just concluded and, with still a few weeks left before my flight back home, I opted to spend these days with my fellow VSO Volunteers who were based in Kisumu, nearly 400kms from Mombasa where I was assigned. It is where the popular Lake Victoria is located.
My co-volunteers’ work is mainly with children and mothers. There is a children’s center there where they help run. One of their activities is a feeding program for kids and their mothers and are held regularly. During my stay there, I assisted them in whatever way I could – helping make their food, distributing malunggay seedlings (moringa oleifera, which is high in nutrion and believed to comabt malnutrition), talking with the kids, or even playing with them. In this picture, I was playing snakes and ladders with these two bright kids.
My stay in Kenya was short but full of good memories. I wonder if I can ever go back there again.
Is it just me or the week has gone slowly?
Oh well, please excuse this pregnant mama. I kinda felt like the days went by ever so slowly last week. It’s like waiting forever for Monday to come so I can post my Monday Mellow Yellows entry. So here it is:
This Angry Birds statues are located inside one of the popular restaurants in Tarlac. I don’t exactly get it why they have Angry Birds in the restaurant. Sure it’s popular to kids but what does it exactly do? For picture purposes?
Add to that, they also have statues of the past Philippine presidents, particularly Cory Aquino and Joseph Estrada, in the restaurant garden. And not the usual standing statues, mind you. They are seated on benches around the restaurant. I kind of find it spooky. It just feels weird.
Yup, my son loves to goof in front of the camera. This was taken at SM several weekends ago.
I choose this spotted one! Nom, nom, nom!
Okay, the news is out.
There is a pandesal (bun) in my oven, hihihi.
Actually my husband and I announced it officially some two weeks ago only, just a few days over the first trimester. We wanted to make sure, that’s why we waited this long.
A friend and co-volunteer joked that, apparently, I was working on a different “project” after coming home from my volunteer stint in Kenya, lol. Actually, we have been planning for this even before I left but it’s only last year that we were successful. This baby is eight years in the making. I was actually praying for my older sister to get pregnant first but, somehow, fate played a joke and I was the one who got pregnant. Not that I’m complaining. Nah-ah.
My little boy, who is now eight years old, will be a Kuya (older brother) soon. He still doesn’t get it but he once told us that he doesn’t like a girl. Oh boy. We want a girl; hopefully we’ll have a girl
Regardless of the gender, I am so over the moon that we are having another little one in the family. Everyone in the family is. I’m happy that the baby is healthy and growing normally despite my (call-center) work schedule. The downside is that, even after the first trimester, I am still experiencing morning sickness – vomiting, mostly.
I’m posting early this week coz I know I will be very busy in the coming weeks. We are on our toes as a new management (and owners) have taken over the company where I’m currently working. Each employee are being evaluated whether they remain in the company, or be let go. I hope I don’t get get into the latter category 
Anyways, my entry this week is a snap I took while strolling at the city centro (center).
I always make sure I get to see the city while on vacation before going back to Pampanga again. Very nice to see old, familiar places and faces and keeping up with them. In one of those strolls, I passed by Arturo Store along Taft Street and reminisced the old times. My, it has changed a lot.
Next door to Arturo is Sunny Store, another old timer, and surprising enduring up to these days. Across the store is a strip of fruit stalls, including my cousin’s. And these are some of the yummy fruits that are sold at my cousin’s stall. They sell mostly imported fruits, those considered as “expensive fruits”, depending on the season. Apples, grapes, pears, tangerines and some local ones like pomelos, mangoes, etc. They also sell foodstuff like banana chips, peanut brittle, watermelon seeds, and many others. They are best as pasalubong, or a homecoming gift, which is a Filipino tradition.
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