Marriage and Beyond

With the wide range of consumer products that are full of synthetic and dangerous chemicals that harm the environment, it can be quite a task for me to put aside what things to use and not to use. But if there’s anything I really take note of eco friendly products and use them to replace the usual household stuff that we use.

For sometime now I have taken the SLS and DEET factor off our home. This is beneficial especially for my son who does not need to use those commercial products that contain harmful stuff. Even our detergent and scented candles are all eco-friendly. I love the fact that we do our small share in helping to preserve mother nature and even have our son value the environment as we do.

The heat is definitely on! Mama have been telling me to have dear son’s head shaved so he would be less sweaty. The humidity has worsened a tad and I talked to our son yesterday and he got convinced that he would be okay with it. The last time hubby shaved his head was summer of last year and the buzzing sound of the apparatus just got him bonkers and cried the whole time. Talk about trauma. This time around I got him convinced and he is now a big boy. Turned out he was still my baby after all. He cried half the time his head was being shaved by his papa this afternoon. Allow the photos to speak for themselves. Don’t be fooled, though. As pitiful as the shots look, our little guy instantaneously stops crying every time the apparatus is turned off. He is really just afraid of the loud buzzing sound.

Anticipating what’s to come…

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This is the candle that we lit from 8 P.M. to 9 P.M.

Saturday, March 29, 2008.

I have yet another great find to help save the environment – friendsofwater.com. I have been made aware to do my share in conserving water from one of my better teachers in grade school. Miss Liban told her class how one of her ordinary days she suddenly felt silly just letting the water flow while she brushes her teeth. That simple example of hers made her mark in my life, that even at the young age of eleven I was made conscious to save water in my own little way. Continue Reading »

Our family is proactive when it comes to valuing our environment. We do our share either by using products that are organic or recycling materials. To prove this, instead of disposable diapers, I have made use of leakproof cloth diapers to my son in his diapering years. There are a lot more examples, that at first were frowned upon by hubby, but now have come to embrace them. It is never too late to influence people around us to be conscious of our environment. For one, there is no replacing the mother earth that we now have.

It is interesting to know that a firm is especially designed to do the recycling processes of plastic, rubber and polymeric recyclable materials. They provide services such as Scrap HDPE: Continue Reading »

The custom of sending Valentine cards started in the eighteenth century. It took the place of having to send very expensive gifts. The first valentine cards were all hand made and with original verses. Continue Reading »

Read: The Origin of Valentine’s Day, Part 1 of 2

The second lore is one of the more interesting origin of Valentine’s Day. It starts with the Bishop of Terni in Italy. He was martyred in the year 270. Continue Reading »

St. Valentine’s Day is one of the many festivals celebrated in countries having western culture. The emphasis may differ from one country to another. As with traditions, there usually are lots of versions that point back to the origin. Here is one of them: Continue Reading »

It is interesting to note that wedding superstitions are not unique to our native land. Other countries acknowledge these and even practice them in this day and age. Continue Reading »

Tomorrow, Jeff will officiate a wedding yet again. Weddings are just the finest events on earth if you ask me. Going back to the time God presented Eve to Adam, how lovely could it have been? That’s the scene that repeats itself in my head even as I witness weddings that I have planned and coordinated, some of which I was just one of the many guests. No matter how many details are entailed for the organizers, weddings never cease to make me giddy all over again. Need I say more? I love weddings! That’s why I truly take pride in the weddings that I deliver and help coordinate, because I only give my best, no less. Continue Reading »

Whoever said that “to be a pastor’s wife is to live life inside a ‘fishbowl’ ” couldn’t have been more right. After six years of being one, I could actually rejoice and pat myself on the back for thriving inside “this fishbowl.” Continue Reading »

They say that old habits die hard, and its true. I often get approached by the people I counsel who try to negotiate and express their wanting to go back to dating. The problems in dating are but numerous, here are but a few of them. Continue Reading »

Mistletoe. Continue Reading »

Christmas.

“Christmas” comes from the old English Cristes masse, meaning ‘the festival mass of Christ’. Continue Reading »

In the spirit of Christmas, I’m jumping on this taggin’ train. The idea is to make a list of all your godchildren. I will try my very best to recall each and every one. I will have to dig in really deep (blame the anaesthesia!) and might probably just have to get back to edit this list when a name gets back to me. I’m jotting down my own godchildrens’ names, not counting the ones I acquired through Jeff. Continue Reading »

I wouldn’t have had an inkling that a barrage of days without classes would come my way. The week that was, really drained me. So this was one welcome break, a much needed one from the endless days of keeping to myself 7days a week (almost!). Continue Reading »