Caroleen’s Treasures

I just finished sewing new set of curtains for the living room mainly because I can’t live without it, I want privacy and I want a dim house. I did some little cleaning in the kitchen this afternoon and took down the curtains but I am too lazy to wash it. It was soaked but it’ll take me more time to remove the spots from I-don’t-know-where than I imagined so I dug in my box for fabric. I find it a lot easier and more fun to sew than do the laundry.

It’s almost midnight but the kids are still wide awake. Ella is hard at work with her crafts while Eman is busy with my soft tape measure. I hope this means my little guy will love numbers and math will be his favorite subject. Well the little girl is inclined to arts and I absolutely don’t have any issues with that. I actually would want her to be an artist or anything related to arts, fashion and the like. Yeah, fashion. She is learning to dress up her Barbie dolls with her handmade dresses made of scraps from my cloth diapers and baby slings.

We are loving the oldies music on Donald’s playlist……remembering the olden days. Go to go now because Eman is sitting on my lap now and is trying to reach the keyboard with his fingers and toes.

We accomplished a quite huge task yesterday….that is doing the laundry. I say it’s huge because if you check my previous posts, the last time we did the laundry was last January 16. Blame it to our crazy weather. Just imagine 10 full loads of laundry in the washer not to mention the whites which I hand washed for four hours. We spent almost a week this month in Davao and I did the laundry there but it didn’t help lessen the pile after pile of dirty clothes. It was yesterday that I heard Donald regret about not getting the automatic machine. He promised that if he did earn from blogging, he would get me one. Maybe here we really need it since Mr. Sun always plays hide and seek with us but if we move back in my hometown where the weather is nicer, we could be fine with our washer. So today, most of the clothes are already dry after we gave ourselves some exercise of running outside to gather them when it drizzles and putting them back on the lines when the sun shows up.

Ella’s doing better and better during her wake up calls. She would not complain anymore about being sleepy and she’s really enjoying the three days in a week that they will spend the entire day at school. I asked her to pose for me in the camera before heading out the door. Read more… »

We have a plan to do some food shopping today but I guess there would be no one between Donald and I who will be willing to go out. It was drizzling so we will probably spend the morning just staring at each other. Ella watched a craft sement for kids on TV early this morning and she’s now busy making her own craft. Geez, I wish people could be more sensitive here….I loathe people who come by the house so early in the morning (at that very moment I only have just closed my eyes after hours and hours of trying to sleep) just to borrow money. I hope next time they’ll come when we are already up and about because we are nocturnal people here. Read more… »

Ella holding a pair of scissors and trying to open a packet of abaca twine.

Donald: ‘Wag ‘yan ang gamitin mo Lay. May nabuksan na sa kabilang kuwarto, kunan kita. (Don’t use that Lay. There’s an open packet in the other room, I will get you some.)

Donald went inside the other room and handed her a foot long of twine.

Ella: Kelangan ko ng maraming ganito Dy. (I need plenty of this Daddy.)

Donald: Tama na ‘yan. (That’s enough.)

Ella: Hindi. Kelangan ko ng marami. Bakit iisa lang ba ang buhok natin? (No. I need plenty. Do we only have just one strand of hair?)

Yeah, right. So why not give her a handful?

So Donald gave her this…..

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