Seasons and Seasonings

Last March 31, 2012 marked the start of our happy memories in our family. My in laws visited my family for a vacation in our place. Those present were my parents in-law, one brother in-law and his family and my sister in-law with her child and mother in-law who just came from Canada. My father and mother in-law stayed with us in our house and the rest checked-in in one of the beach resort in Panglao Island, Bohol, Philippines. They spent their vacation with us for four days. Everybody enjoyed...

As a mother, I am always after the welfare of my two boys. Of course, it goes without saying that I am after the security and safety of our entire home. Since we live too far from the city, you can imagine that our community is not overly populated. Hence, there are times when we feel exposed and vulnerable to bad elements. I’m not saying our neighborhood is unsafe. Far from it. Anyway, there’s www.homesecurityfamily.com/ that takes care of people’s home security needs. This is the perfect...

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March 17, 2012 was the 25 th Episcopal ordination of our Bishop in the Diocese of Tagbilaran.

I was so busy preparing food the other night for our dinner.

After I get married in 1984, we have no house yet. When I separated from my parents, my husband and I rented a small room in the city for our dwelling. It is made of wood. When we were able to build a new house of our own in 2003, I still brought this sala set to my new house. In 2007, I decided to replace the leatherette covering as it is already very old. My first sala set in 1988 until now.

When my kids were still in their elementary grade, I sent them to a private school. My reason is that, I want them to have a good foundation while they were still young. We are not that rich, but me and my husband agreed that we have to sacrifice for the sake of the education of our growing kids. Because of this, I was encouraged to buy a family encyclopedia for their future reference. I was not mistaken because it helps them a lot even when they were already in college. We bought these on...

I have a best friend who is a lover of plants especially the flowering ones. One day, she gave me the flowering pandakaki dwarf she bought from the plant shop. I placed it in a plastic flower pot. For three months, it did not produce plenty of flowers. So, I decided to transfer it in the vacant lot in front of our lawn. At least, the pandakaki dwarf plant can now be exposed to the sunlight. I have been observing the plant for one month. To my astonishment, it bears plenty of white flowers. My...

Author: Joseph Sandoval My husband and I have been planning to move for four years. We bought a house when we got married and stayed in that house for nine years. We originally planned to stay there for five years and move before we had kids. The housing market got worse and worse, and instead of selling our house when we thought we would, we had to stay there four additional years. We decided to put our house on the market and see if we got any bites. We actually sold the house within two...

When my children were still little kids, we used to spend our family bonding in one of the fine restaurants in our place.

I am thankful to Lady Carmel Cole, my daughter, that she keeps on posting this blog site. I've been out from blogging for almost a month now. I was not feeling well after our fiesta celebration last January 23-24, 2012. Then, I was very busy helping my brother in the processing of papers of his newly acquired lot next to our town place. This lot is very important because it has a very big deposit of limestone. He has a plan to quarry the area and sell the excavated limestone. It is not easy...

Natural Disaster is an unpredictable circumstance in our world today. Just yesterday, I read lots of Facebook posts of my friends in Bohol and Negros, Oriental who are scared of the earthquake as it was occurring quite a few times in the afternoon and at night time. It must be terrible to experience it even just of imagining what they were saying. I felt nervous because it is near to the islands where my parents and my relatives lives. I sent a Facebook message to my cousin who was on and off...

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Today, I missed the snow because there is a Snow Flake Festival in our Local Audobon Center. Last year, we went there and we had thick snow. I skipped the sled riding with George where the snow dogs will give you the ride. They also have countryside skiing but I wasn't able to try it because I was pregnant. Now, that it would be a perfect time to do it, the opportunity seem to not like us to do it. I can't help myself but to be enthusiastic about it. I'll just have to be grateful that its...

As I was reading some inspirational thoughts for today, I came across this saying: "One of the simplest and most effective ways to increase your blessings is gratitude. The more you notice the good in your life, the more you will find. Magnify your blessings with thankfulness and appreciation."Of course, how could we forget being Grateful? Our daily lives are full of tasks, here and there, and because of being busy we tend to forget it. You even ask God for so many things and that when He...