Archive for December, 2011

post christmas yakkities

How did the Christmas weekend go for you? Try as we wanted to celebrate a simpler Christmas, we went a wee bit overboard with food preps and some gifts for the kids. I guess we couldn’t help it, Christmas always  [ Read More ]

Source: smallnotebook.org via Rachel on Pinterest I hope you are blessed with the desires of your heart, material and immaterial. My heart goes out to the victims of Typhoon Sendong. I imagine a sad Christmas for many of them and  [ Read More ]

There will be no Colorful Weekend today so party-goers, we resume next week in time to ring in the New Year. After pampering this blog with so much attention last week, busy-ness took over and in the aftermath of Sendong’s  [ Read More ]

Eight years ago today, church bells rang, hundreds and hundreds of live butterflies peppered a bright blue {and later on velvet} sky, and fireworks colored the night. It was a day of soft blues and pinks, white roses, nerve-wrecking tears,  [ Read More ]

Yesterday morning, hours before the sun rose, Catholic faithfuls in the Philippines flocked to churches to hear the Mass at Dawn. The Simbang Gabi is a special part of the Christmas celebrations in this country, a 9-day novena to the  [ Read More ]

one helluva week!!!!!!

Oh yeah, helluva! I’m not swearing, certainly you can hear the tone? I’m smiles. I’M SMILES! I actually kept this blog updated a whole week! The last time I did that was… hmmm, I can’t remember… Even this cheesy filler  [ Read More ]