After more than a month of going Korean style, we are now off to get our memory foam bed elevated as it will soon have its very own bed box. Manila is a very dusty city that even if sweeping was done in the morning, a couple of hours after dust will behold you over again. It never ends. We live in a village that only private vehicles are allowed. Imagine if our house was close to a national road or the highway! I am just glad that I wouldn’t have to sweep through the edges of the bed itself. Other cold countries like Korea can very well afford to get furnitures slumped on the floor (and even sit on the floor while eating) because they don’t have so much dust like we do here. This is also one of the reasons why we had to take out carpets. It’s like nurturing a dust haven for the mites and what have yous for their abode.
Here is kuya with his masterpiece in the making. Our folks got their closet replaced a couple of days back, it was just timely that he was around because we have put off getting a bed frame for our mattress for sometime now. We asked if he could make a bed box for us and it turned out he’s an expert with woods, bed frames and even home theater furniture. This is far better than having to buy those laminated bed frames we see from the department stores. A solid wood will sure last us many years than those laminated frames. The headboard with cushion that the hubby wants will have to wait until later.
Earlier today I wrote about criminal lawyers, allow me to introduce you now to personal injury attorneys. Even as we hope not to have the need for one, fact is, it’s an imperfect world. Although getting a hold of lawyers do not always equate to crime and the like. Like for instance, we recently had to avail of the services of our lawyer-cousin to take care of some property titles arrangements. It was a blessing that we have a relative who is an attorney because these professionals do charge quite a bit. It was his good will that he did not charge us with fees, but we could have obliged because this is his profession.
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My Sunday was tiring but a blessed wonderful day for me. All the issues that came my way could really sap my energies off me. In the morning I got to talk to one of our elder members who recently found out she has cancer. Afterwhich, issues with some of my girls that got me stunned. I love them dearly. I rejoice as well even as we all together claim John 8:36, “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
The Lord alone helps us through the ministry He has put us in and I also hope to make myself more available that’s why I have been religiously taking in my medications and multivitamins, but for some reason I forgot to take them before we left the house yesterday morning. Recently I have been into Supplement Reviews, looking for the best one to complement my cause towards a healthful lifestyle. I am currently trying out two good ones, plus regularly juicing both fruits and veggies. We are also taking out most of the preserved stuff off our weekly roster of meal schedule.
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Today, for our youth service, our senior pastor helped us transport high school students from Gen. Pio del Pilar National High School to our church/ youth center. We would have bought a bus for sale that we can use for transporting students if we had the funds. Too bad it was raining so we didn’t really need a bus to transport the eight visitors we had from the school we reached out to. But it was all worth it because there were three who made commitments for Christ in our youth service today.
I just love the articles that a fellow homeschooling member from Y! groups shares with us periodically. Thanks again, Karen! These snippets of wise stuff could really come in handy, especially when we parents just find ourselves in some kind of a power struggle with our little ones. For us, it’s not often but it does happen. Even our bright and shiny little guy could test our patience sometimes and it is important to know how we should respond to his attempts of defiance.
Do you find yourself yelling sometimes just to be heard? Does the yelling frustrate you but you feel there’s no other way? We find that parents often yell when they don’t have a plan. Some parents don’t know how to fix a problem with their kids so they become louder, thinking that the intensity created through yelling will have some kind of positive effect. It doesn’t work.
Motivating with harshness can keep children in line or get them to accomplish a task, but that method damages family relationships. In Jeremiah 10:24, Jeremiah prays, “Correct me, Lord, but only with justice—not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.” In the end, it is closeness that provides parents with teachable moments and the relaxed enjoyment of family life. Yelling and harshness discourage trust, essential to help young people learn valuable principles about life.Continue Reading »
The hubby and I were three years in our marriage when our little guy arrived. He was everything we ever prayed for. Right from the time he was two months old, he was already sleeping through the night! He is such an easy baby. The hubby and I prepared ourselves with childbirth preparations and studied the varied views of parenting and we applied Baby wise right from day one. It worked for us, despite the fact that there are people who are against its principles, I can only say how it worked for us and we will always be glad that we stuck it out. Only those who have not actually read the book from cover to cover will label it as rigid. This much I can say, its principles are backed by what the Bible teaches.
People around celebrated with us and made sure they made themselves available for just about anything we needed. We were blessed to have been lent all those baby furniture that we did not have to buy. From baby travel cots, baby prams, bassinet, bouncer, crib, baby pushchairs to playpen. All of these are pricey. I mean if we could very well afford it, we could have bought, why not. But then again, people around us offered to lend us their baby stuff and we were more than grateful. Besides a lot of them told us that babies outgrow everything all too soon, so we figured it was really more practical to just borrow. And that too, like Baby wise, worked for us just fine.
Today the hubby is scheduled to do an ocular inspection of the prospective place for transfer of the local church that he pastors. The place is not much. In fact the most it could sit is around fifty people. But it has three upstairs rooms which could be used for Sunday School that could even serve as rooms for the future pre-school facility that we have planned to put up to cater to the kids of our church members. It is really hard to be able to get a good location with the best price in the area. But we remain hopeful.
We are praying that the Lord will give us wisdom and confirmation if this is the place for us. Aside from it being a real downgrade in space, the location is the most ideal that we have seen by far, very accessible to say the least. It is practically a stone throw away from the school that we are tying up with for a regular outreach and follow up program. If it would be it, then I am sure our church family will be more than glad to pack our bags and fill those moving boxes. We continue to pray even as we anticipate the best place God has in store for our local church to transfer to.
Lately, my son and I have been watching lots of animated movies such as Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Cars which is his favorite. My wife recently downloaded some extra videos of Jed’s favorite movie and it is about Mater, Lightning McQueen’s companion, and the ghost light. The beginning of that short movie contains a background music of some country music which sounds really nice and kind of relaxing and laid back.
A good source of music in this genre is HDRadio.com. Country music lovers can listen to new country music stations all around US or particular Florida High Definition Radio stations. HD Radio is not like satellite radio. It is a ground antenna based radio or simply a digital version of FM and AM. If you listen with a Polk Audio I-sonic ES2 you can even “tag” the songs that you like in your iPod and then download and buy the songs from the iTunes music store at a later time when you sync your iPod to your laptop or PC.
Having a handyman for a husband can really be a total blessing. It is indeed a bonus. It was something I learned when I was already in the marriage. Being a handyman is not exactly a requirement quality of a husband. I mean he is not expected to be operating rollformers or something. But it came to me as a real treat when I actually did not have to bother to go get that next available plumber for a leaking lavatory or even to have a complicated bath tub faucet replaced. Continue Reading »
It has been a couple of weeks since the world celebrated Father’s Day and this entry is a delayed one all right, but still worthy to be posted. I ran across this shot as I was going through my files this morning.The tons of photos that we have are eating up and slowly consuming the 80gb disk space of my trusty laptop. I am actually considering the hubby’s proposal to get ourselves another external hard drive.I used to have photos and files burnt to dvd, but it was too late when I found out this kind of backing up does not work.We lost our photo files from the year 2004 to 2007.It’s sad and I will do anything to get the files restored. Our disc clinic won’t even do the trick.
This shot was taken in one of my father’s all time favorite restaurants. Ever since I can remember, it will always be his restaurant of choice, that if that place would hold a Ristorante Contest, he would easily win effortlessly.He never gets tired of going back to this place right from when we were little.Our family has grown bigger.It used to be just the four of us: Mama, Papa, my sister and me.Now there are seven of us and boys have finally outnumbered the girls.
One of the more exciting things that the hubby and I enjoyed during our house construction last year was designing our bathroom. It was a major blessing that our contractor gave us the freedom to have what we want. We went from one home depot to another, surveying designs of Bathrooms. We even browsed the internet for hours on end, we would not want to settle for second best. For one, this will be our very own abode and we’d like our personal touch to it. From the Roman theme, Mediterranean classic, Contemporary, et al., we later agreed to settle for a black and white theme.
In dealing with young people, it is very important to understand their culture. Many young people like rap music. In fact, many of them who are also into social networking, embed rap videos in their profile page. They might even have gotten the video from RapArtists.com which is a source of information about rap artists and their music, albums, discography and many others. We just encourage the youth that we deal with to be cautious in choosing the songs they listen to, based on its content and lyrics.
It is a joy for both me and the hubby to see our little guy memorize some verses from the Bible. He first quoted his first verse, Ephesians 6:1 when he turned two last year. This past week, he has got another verse memorized and with action Psalm 27:4). Click this link to watch the video.
Right from he was five months old, we introduced Bible reading to him and it has been like a routine since that he has come to know the stories behind each character from his picture Bible. It delights us when we see him browsing through the book even by himself. This week I realized yet again that persistence does pay off. There are just times that I do not feel like pressing on, which is just natural, especially when I am busy with work. We pray that by God’s grace, we will be able to be consistent.
My first encounter with Cher was when I was a college freshman. It was more than a decade ago when I first heard a remake of the song that she and her former partner, Sonny Bono popularized back when they were still an item. I instantly fell for the song and had to do quite a research on their original version. I loved it. As the years went by, Cher did a movie and then recorded a hit making song that ushered her back to the throne where she once was.
When Kuya Jessie, a friend blogger, wrote about her in one his previous articles, it was only then that it occurred to me that she was already as old as my mother. It is just ultra amazing that there is just no trace of old age in this immortal diva. My own mother cannot even believe it when I told her that they are the same age. Can you believe it, that she is even back doing concerts? My mother is scheduled to fly to America next month and she just might want to buy one of those Cher Tickets at Caesars Palace to watch her live. Her relaunch to the concert scene is a much awaited event to many of her fans.
No, we are not wearing uniforms, but we might as well have. To top the long weekend, we just hang out after the storm “Frank” forced us into an unexpected blogging hiatus. It was unexpected all right, but a welcome break nonetheless. We met up with my sister and her hubby at the mall and just had fun together.
It is rainy season again, kicked off by a devastating typhoon, “Frank”, which left many typhoon victims, either homeless or losing a loved one. With these great disasters, I feel quite guilty writing about our old car which rains inside, but I just want to thank God for the shelter He has provided us in our house and our old car when we travel. We pray that the needs of those deeply affected by this storm, “Frank”, would be met and that they would find comfort in their sorrow and distress.
With that said, our plan to buy a new car has changed. We now are having thoughts about either getting our old car fixed or buying a second had car from used cars centers. In my opinion, buying a used car is quite a risky move. Those venturing into it should do detailed research on the car that they are interested in. Some information they need to find out are the car’s mileage, who the previous owner or owners of the car are, how the car was used by its previous owner/s and its maintenance history as much as possible. BuyYourCar.co.uk does this research on second-hand cars and is a reliable source of used cars online.
Our little guy first surprised us as he quoted away the whole verse of Ephesians 6:1 on our way home from a holiday getaway with friends from Subic last year, a couple of days after he turned two years old. Last week the hubby introduced Psalm 37:4 to our son and quoted the verse as our little guy followed after him. He did this twice and on the third, we were surprised to hear him breezing through the verse, complete with hand actions.
We are praying that even as he remembers these words from his heart and as we reinforce the things that we teach him through these verses, he will grow up not just a person that we could live with, but a person who will understand why we choose to train him the way we do and eventually will rise up to fulfill what God has purposed for him to be.
Whenever he tries to do things his way, we remind him of the verses and we see that as we allow him to digest the things that we explain to him, he does understand. Truth is, by nature, man will go his own way, this is one reason we are proactive in teaching our child the things he has to value in his formative years.
I am blessed to be able to take care of my son like I have and I feel even more blessed to have the husband that I have to partner with as we share one heart in raising our son.
Ephesians 6:1
“Obey your parents in the Lord for this is right..”
Psalm 37:4
“Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.”
Our family’s inclination towards going “green” has jump started years ago. I just thought we seriously have to consider a relaunch now that we are pretty much off from distractions and we could really get down to the job of getting rid of everything unnatural. Aside from taking in organic foods, we already have gotten rid of major cleaning agents and other consumables that have non-natural ingredients.
One thing we could do to push towards that cause is blog about how going “green” can go as far as living in a very building that was made by a company doing eco-friendly practice of using recycled metal. Aside from being “green” in this sense, Metal Buildings made be Apex Buildings are quality engineered to see you through many years of low-maintenance service. Continue Reading »
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