Caroleen’s Treasures

I started sewing in the other room tonight and I think my output is better. Well to me it is but Donald can’t tell the difference when I showed him. I don’t think I can get a good response from him. Forgot I married a sanguine eh! LOL But in fairness he is my critic on every crafts I make. He has an eye for beauty and perfection…..see?, he married me. Hahahahahaha! I know, I know I sounded like crazy tonight. Might be due to really wanting to have a cup of jura capresso or better yet a litro of ice cold Coke.

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….we tied the knot at Uyanguren Church of Christ, Davao City.  Like all couples, it was one of the most momentous event in our lives.

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Last night might be the most unforgettable moment for Ella. She hasn’t spend the night out for fun. She spent the night out of the kitchen door wailing and screaming.

While I prepare dinner, I let Donald do coding for OHJ while Ella was playing in the living room. Then a cologne advertisment was flashed on tv and she asked me to get her cologne. I said no because Mommy don’t like the smell. I’ve been very sensitive with fragrances when I got pregnant and I don’t want to spend the rest of the night throwing up again. Although hers was a baby cologne, I still don’t want to take risk. Read more… »

Early in the morning I woke up feeling fine. As if I got the complete sleep my body requires. I crawled to bed at past two in the morning reading blogs but too tired to comment After Ella and Donald left for School, I sat on my pc and went on Opps hunting but no luck I wish tonight I can grab…even just one.

I did some box wrapping today too. The shoe boxes and other boxes I found around the house I wrapped with gift wrapper to give it a more decent look to store stuffs like Ella’s school supplies, my craft supplies and other abubots. I have done several boxes and went to see some more box in the second room where I put all our stuff from Davao. I saw a box outside the house and asked Ella what is the box doing outside. She said she has nothing to do with it so I asked my other child…I mean my husband about the box sitting on the table on the shed.

I found out that Donald put it there the other night when he caught the rat (named Donald Jr.) and put it inside the shoe box. So yesterday, Donald was grumbling about the rat who escaped from the box. He was saying….”He was such a rat!” What else could he call it aside from rat? So to make the story short…(I hope it will really make it short) He caught the rat in the sink the other night, put it in a box with two holes in it. He covered the box and inserted a lit paper (of course it was smoking) to suffocate the rat. He could not kill it as he feels unhumane to kill a living thing (Remember when he doesn’t want to kill bugs and he would just drop them in the chamber pot to drown instead of squeezing them to death?) After sometime, thinking that the rat have died, he went back inside the house. The following morning when he woke up, he saw the box empty. So the brilliant rat escaped! I told him, “You should be ashamed of yourself. The rat is laughing at you. You didn’t know while you are trying to suffocate him, he went into prone position and covered his mouth and nose?”

So much of the rat story In the afternoon, I and Ella had a nap.  At three pm I went to see a doctor for my chest pains and was advised to have a ECG and x-ray in the city. So this means we are going to Davao again. I was hoping it can wait until next month so I can save money for it.

After the check up, I went to pick up a few items in the grocery store and a little present for a 2-year-old boy who invited us for a small party this afternoon. I also got few wrappers to use for the other boxes and also picked up pencils and erasers sets that i can give to two other kids in my Sunday school class who will be celebrating their birthdays next week. It is not much but I am sure they would be happy to receive a present as they are not used to having some during birthdays. After the quick grocery shopping, I went home to drop the grocery bag and off we went to the party. It is far from here and we are the “guest of honor” Only us came from afar, most of the visitors are relatives and friends nearby. They house is small and you can tell they are struggling financially but hey, the still managed to give the boy a happy birthday We had spaghetti, buko salad, bihon guisado, cake and Coke.

When we are done and full…we sat there chatting for a while when we received a message from Tatang to go to her daughter’s house ASAP ‘cos it is Ate Venus birthday too. Oh this is what I miss…too much food It is getting dark when we left the place. I feel horrified by the dark clouds  as it will pour heavy rain (if I say heavy, it is really heavy) It is a remote place and we are like in the woods in the story The Red Riding Hood. We ran as fast as we could, Ella was on her Daddy’s shoulders while I was following them. Only a few cabs get there and we are just so lucky there was one. As soon as we got on the cab, it rained so hard. When we finally arrived at Ate Venus’ place, Ella had a nice time chatting with the visitors who are two to three decades older than she. Only a few friends were there but we had soooo much fun. The visitors could not help but laugh when after we sang “To God be the Glory” and Donald said a prayer, Tatang began to sing loudly The Birthday Song and two more songs. We sang with him trying not to laugh but the visitors almost fell on their seats in laughter because they assumed they can start filling their plates with food after they said Amen :lol: Since we are full, I had only a little rice and steamed catfish. I also picked puto cheese which I really missed and so are Donald and Ella (this is what we are making back in our hometown before to earn a living). We also had buko salad, choco moist, chicken soup, bam-i and fried quail We left with a bag of food for Bogart who patiently waits for us at home.

Happy Birthday Ella!!!! Our baby is now 5 and is so lady like. I remember when she was born, she was just 3.3 pounds but she grew so fast and she even looked like Buddha She woke up early as what she has planned last night. She was so thrilled it was her birthday and always says she was now 5, no longer 4. Awww….where did the time go? She could not wait to have her own room and always on the sink washing anything she could grab there. She was saying she is a big girl now and demands she would go to school alone.

As planned, she will have a small party in the afternoon. Her Tita Crislyn and Tita CheChe arrived at 1pm. Ella ran to them in excitement and was so proud of the house and the whole place. I am just so glad they made it as I want Ella to have some nice pictures. Crislyn got a new camera, a cannon rebel one. It was so beautiful and takes awesome photos. At 4pm the party began with a prayer. The kids gathered around the table after singing a birthday song to the proud celebrant taking turns to get food. We have cake, spaghetti, buko salad, buttered chicken, quail eggs (courtesy of Inang), orange juice for the kids and coke for me Ella was so happy and she entertained her visitors well, sometimes scolding a kid who is not behaving well. I am happy she had visitors from the church and neighbors. After they ate, they went infront of the chapel and one group of kids outside the fence have been mad jealous about the party that she threw a stone on them hitting one boy in the nose and pricking one girl in the thumb. Ella went so hysterical and wailed like she was the one being attacked. I went there and called the girl, asked her why and told her to say sorry. The girl was sorry and while dhe was saying the words, Ella keeps on crying and gets even louder as the girl says the words After the sorry’s Ella went out with a plate full of spaghetti for them all. Oh Ella was a birthday present from one of the girls. Ella was so excited to announce she has a present…it was a chick!!!! Yes, a chick! A sick chick. I do not know what is wrong but I can tell it is sick. She carried it around and even poses infront of the camera with it.

Kids got balloons too and loot bags…I put in there some glue, ruler and pencil along with candies. They have enjoyed it so much and so Ella does. Inang and Tatang were so welcoming to my sisters and they had a nice time talking until Inang and Tatang has to leave. That gave me more time to pose infront of th camera. Then at almost 7pm, we went to the terminal to send her tita’s home.

Today was a tiring day but seeing Ella so happy is worth the money, time and effort.