Caroleen’s Treasures

Yesterday have been full of unusual events.

First, we took a jeepney going to church. We are near the Ulas intersection when Manang Inday sent a text message asking if we are attending the service, that time when we got the message they are still about to leave their house so I was giggling when I saw them settled in the church auditorium when we arrived. They arrived ahead of us! LOL I found out that there is not much hassle commuting going downtown on Sunday because traffic is not that bad. We managed to reach the church in 45 minutes (taking two jeepneys). Imagine how long will it take us to get there during weekdays.

Second, Eman was well behaved during the entire trip. He was nibbling on wafers. He didn’t sleep but Ella did. Well that’s not new. Ella will sleep right away after she settled herself inside a taxi or jeepney.

Third thing that is unusual is Eman didn’t mind when Ate Leah (the preacher’s wife) brought him to the children’s class and he stayed there the entire worship service. It’s not Ella’s class so I am surprised he didn’t cry.

After the service we went to my sister’s apartment to greet BIL on his birthday while Manang Inday and Dimple went straight home to meet a friend. We had lunch with Cheche while the birthday boy was busy playing on the laptop. Ate was sleeping when we arrived but she got up to play with Eman when she heard our kinda loud voices. We left after a short while because Donald had a plan. He wanted to bring the kids to Philippine Eagle (which is another unusual thing) and I was smiling inside ’cause it’s been over a decade when I last went to that place. It’s half past 2 in the afternoon already so we packed inside a taxi to be able to get there in time. We will be going home first to change clothes. Traffic was bad when we reached the Coca Cola Plant at Ulas. We were stuck there for nearly 20 minutes. Read more… »

I am not feeling well today. I guess it’s the over-exertion from holding Eman. He is becoming more and more active and when he’s on my lap, he tries to reach for things that he finds interesting. He also have this attitude of making his head fall back when he can’t get what he wanted. Well I am the mother and he can’t get his way. I am giving him a swat on the leg and tell him it’s not good each time he does that. He’s 9 months and he’s not too young for discipline. So there you go, nip it in the bud.

So the whole morning I was feeling sick. Donald gave me a massage and he said what I needed is a joy ride. I don’t want to be called a wet blanket so I agreed. We went to Mintal taking the back road as usual. The afternoon breeze was cold and I somehow felt better. We wanted to eat so we looked around for a resto that serves Pansit Guisado and the like and so we did some kind of a little tour because we are not yet familiar with the place. While we are looking around I told Donald about the fellow blogger, Chikai, who grew up in that place. Last night I scoured her blog for the post she did many months ago when her grandma died. It has photos of their house. I was lucky to have found it last night so I told Donald about it and he was interested in finding it too. I knew the name of the street but we didn’t get around to asking people where it can be found because on our next turn I saw a house that I thought their house (I mean her parent’s house – since she is married and is based in the US now). But the house is not like what I saw in the pictures…..theirs is green and beside it is their grandma’s house. We are slowly moving and as we got near the curb, I saw a very familiar house. Read more… »