Frito Chili

We had chili frito pie today. Got the recipe from Pioneer Woman. Her secret ingredient? Corn masa thrown in at the end to add some oomph to the dish.

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Still Sick!

My dear baby girl is still sick. She has now developed a fever. How my heart aches for her. :(

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Welcome Back!

Lolo and Lola arrived back today from their vacation in Manila. You see the huge smile on Angela's face? Yup, she was so excited to be back in her best friend's arms. :)

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Crescent Rolls

Kuya was hungry but Mommy was busy.
"Can you make these crescent rolls, Mommy?"
"I have a better idea...why don't you make it yourself?"

The instructions were plainly written on the canister and you followed it. And it was a success! Another life skill learned.
Great job Kuya!

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Day of Dedication

We presented our baby girl to the whole community today and dedicated her to the Lord. We see our children as gifts from God and rightly, we offer them up back to Him to love and serve Him all the days of their lives.

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Birthday Party

We went to Ate H's birthday party today. You won one of the games! Woohoo! You were thrilled!

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Big Girl Bike

This was our birthday present to you - a brand new big girl bike! A brand new one, not a hand-me-down, just for you. It still has training wheels right now but Daddy promised that he will teach you to ride it without training wheels soon... because you're 5 years old now! :)

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Sick Baby

Nothing can make a mom feel so helpless as a sick baby. :(

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5th Birthday

5 is a big number for you! You were excited to be turning 5. Suddenly, you saw yourself as a big girl. "I can eat in a big girl plate now because I'm 5 years old!" "I won't whine anymore because I'm 5 years old." "I'm 5 so I can take care of Emma now." On your special day, you requested to have sushi! Wow, such a big girl choice! :)

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She's On the Move!

Uh-oh! Look who's crawling up the stairs!

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11th Birthday

Happy birthday Kuya! How surprised were you to find money in the wallet we gave! You were so excited to get cash for your birthday.

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Sushi night

We love sushi! Oh yes we do! However, it would cost us a fortune if we went out for sushi regularly. So we make it at home. I don't trust myself to handle raw fish though so I mostly use smoked salmon.Tonight, you girls helped me prepare the sushi, mixing the rice and putting the stuff in before I rolled it up.

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Recollection

Attended our district recollection today.

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Pizza night

We used to eat at Red Brick Pizza often a few years ago. This was our first time in a long while...and it may be the last one for an even longer time. Let's just say that it was not what we thought it would be. :( Too bad too because we were so excited to eat there on a Friday night.

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{1/12}

I read somewhere that there is a Take 12 project - take 12 pictures on the 12th day of each month for the year 2012. So, here's my attempt at it. The 12th of this month fell on a Thursday. These pictures give a glimpse of what activities filled our day.

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Boy Scouts

He is in Webelos II right now. It is the last level of Cub Scouts. When they earn their Arrow of Light award, they graduate to Boy Scouts. There will be a ceremony at the annual Blue & Gold banquet. He is very interested in continuing on to Boy Scouts. Their den attended their first Boy Scouts meeting tonight where they met the scouts they will be joining should they decide to continue their scouting adventure.

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Rosetta Stone

Part of our curriculum: Tagalog as their foreign language.

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Take it Outside!

We've been having gorgeous days recently. It would have been such a waste of a beautiful day to be cooped inside the house. But we had school work to finish up. They beauty of home school? We can enjoy the outdoors even as we study.

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MWG

We had our first MWG meeting today, celebrating the January birthdays. Andami!

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Furniture shopping

We went furniture shopping today. We started out at Linders since they were having a close out sale. We saw a couple of sets that we liked but they were 2 seats short. We decided to move to Living Spaces and there we found the perfect set! The table was originally paired with the chair you see at the head of this pic but we found that they were too wide to fit 3 chairs to a side when the table leaf was taken out. Fortunately, we found narrower seats that worked perfectly and even matched the wood of the table. Awesome find!!

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Chopsticks

A package from Grandma came today in the mail. It included these kids chopsticks that you all were excited about. It was perfect timing too since we were having pad thai for dinner.a

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Tea Party

An early evening tea party... plain ole sisterly fun. You are blessed to have each other. For now, these are pretend tea parties but soon enough they will be real life get-togethers. Whether real or pretend, I know for sure that the moments you spend together are special times of building relationships.

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Training 'Em Young

She wanted to help. She was the big sister after all. So after I put on Baby's onesie, she managed the snaps. Love her look of concentration. She certainly took her job seriously!

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A-shopping We Will Go

A weekly errand - grocery shopping. With my parents in the Philippines, I do not have any choice but bring all 5 kids with me. The kids love coming with me. Shopping takes longer when they're with me but I'm learning to take it in stride. We're building memories. Enjoy the journey.

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Building Good Habits

"A habit is overcome by habit." (Erasmus)

I want to get healthy this year so I've chosen to build 3 habits to help live a healthier, happier life. The first is for my spiritual health. The second is for physical health. The third is for my creative health.

Instead of focusing on what I will not do, I chose to focus on what I will do to make myself better.

So here's to building good habits!

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2012

Happy 2012!!!

I'm back with my Project 365+1/Project Life for this year. I'm really excited to be doing this once again. I took a break last year as I felt I had other more important things to take care of. But now, I'm back!

The kids really enjoy looking through our 2010 Project Life album so I'll be putting my printed photos into a 2012 Project Life (PL) album again. PL has become so popular that inspiration abounds all over the net. So inspiring to see how different people make it their own. I've gathered some wonderful ideas that I will try with my own album. So many possibilities.

With my P365+1, I'm receiving daily prompts from Katrina Kennedy's Capture My 365 to give me ideas for days when I'm stumped.

This is going to be an awesome year for me creatively! I know it!

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