Caroleen’s Treasures

Christmas will be over in just a few hours. After the fun and the visitors are gone, the real work and the cursing starts. Dishes pile almost up to the ceiling and you see the house is total wreck. The carpet needs to be taken cared of with that chocolate stain and dog’s pee, little hand prints on the counter, wood tiled floor on some part of the house looks as though it wasn’t polished for years, matresses that needs to be cleaned…..a lot of work that needs to be done. Read more… »

a warm Christmas greetings to all who are celeberating Christmas as well as the ones who aren’t. It was like a tradition that we are “celebrating” it together with my sisters, BIL and Uncle Tony and Auntie Carmen (BIL’s parents). I don’t want to create some discussion debate but the reason we don’t have Christmas is that we don’t believe that Jesus Christ was born on the 25th of December. Hey, hey….don’t shoot any questions because I can’t answer you. Why we still have a feast during Christmas eve and give presents on this day is because we grew up with a Catholic father who observes this holiday and because there are kids in the family. It’s harder now that Ella has so many questions about Santa and Christmas. She gets pretty excited each time she see Christmas trees with lots of ornaments and lights. She was very delighted and gamely posed at the tree and the chimney at SM the other day.

Sorry for the photo but I already picked the best shot. I don’t know why Donald can’t take decent pictures.

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Ella has been trying to get everyone a gift and that’s what she succesfully did last night when we went out to do a little shopping. Donald, Crislyn and I started off at nearly 4pm while Ella who was taking a nap at that time was left with Cheche. It was good that she and Cheche followed us at the mall just in time that we already purchased her gift from us. The whole time she’s with her Tita’s, she was picking gifts for me and when she’s with me, she points at the stuffs that Donald might need. In short, she picks, we pay.

So the little girl was very excited and as soon as arrived here at the house, she started wrapping gifts.

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We were doing some little shopping yesterday and we were musing about how Filipinos celebrate Christmas. People are scattered around the city busily shopping as though there weren’t global financial crisis going on. While entering one of the malls, Donald was commenting on how Filipinos spend so much this time of year and I was like :”You never know, 90% of money spent for shopping was loaned.” Oh yeah, Filipinos are known for that. No, not about the loan but we are known about spending more even if it hurts our pockets. maybe it’s because of our state of being such a big eaters. Please don’t get me wrong. I have read books and blogs and watched movies about celebrating Christmas in the US and some countries and they aren’t like us. Here, it’s not at all complete without lechon, dishes from slaughtering one or two (or even three) pigs, hams, numerous desserts, pastas, flowing coke and beers. Blame it all to our ancestors. Read more… »

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I was like a kid at the National Bookstore asking for this one. Donald bought if for me last February and haven’t used them even once. I feel awful using them because it’s very expensive (for me). I tried once but I ended up using the cheapos color pencils. Maybe this will stay inside the box for decades.

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New year’s coming!!!! Yay! Ella and Donald are more excited than me to spend New Year’s at my hometown. Ella’s been anxiously waiting for the Christmas to be over so we could go back there and spend days and nights having fun with my cousins and cousin’s kids. We always party as early as the 30th of December and since the first time Donald experienced the special moment with my clan, he just loves it and looks forward to it. Although our reunion has chaged drastically since the death of my dearest Mother, we still find it in our heart to enjoy the event.
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Hello! I am blogging from Davao and I am working on my own computer. Yey! I have succesfully sweet talked Donald to bring it here at my BIL’s place for our long vacation so I could still blog. Good that he willingly packed the cpu, monitor (good thing that mine is lcd), keyboard and everything else except the scanner/printer.

It’s still dark when I get out of bed this morning and started the computer in hopes that I could grab some opps. I think my screen froze because it’s been the same opps count since last night. I was planning to leave before 8am but Donald and Ella were still asleep until almost 7am. Since it’s drizzling, I let them snuggle in bed longer while I read and replied to some emails. Read more… »

I do believe in miracles and this morning, I witnessed one. Baby Taz was pretty behaved in our Sunday School class and it was indeed a miracle. Unlike the past Sundays when all she does is getting so physical with her cousin, lie down on the floor as if she’s in their house, getting her hands into all the stuffs at Ella’s study table and walking back and forth disturbing not just me but the entire class…..today she stayed there at her chair, eyes pinned on me and repeats every word I utter (that I asked her to stop)while I tell them another story about Jesus. She and her cousin hasn’t exchanged kicks and pinches and it was such a miracle. I now see her as a doll or an angel, not a Baby Taz. Read more… »