Whirlwind

It was unintentional on my part to be this quiet these past weeks.

It's just that recent changes in my environs have kept my waking hours pretty much occupied.  And I mean that in a good way.  Of course including the usual daily concerns of being a wife and a mother.

That being said, I've actually taken photos of one of these homemade sandwich fillings that is becoming a staple in our family.  We've had it in our lunch boxes since last week.  I am in fact making another batch tomorrow morning.  Hopefully my weekend won't be as full as last week's, which means that I'd have the time to post those photos.

Let me say goodbye for now. It's been pretty much a long Wednesday for me.  From house chores during the mornings, then work from mid-afternoon, and a power stretch class, to cap the day, I'm so dead beat.

Hope everything's going well from your end!

Loving Surprises and Hating Democracy

Did a friend of a friend a favor and yesterday, as generous and thoughtful act of returning that favor, this friend of a friend surprised me with this

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Overjoyed that it's a pack of purely dark chocolate! Dark chocolate is everyone's favorite at home (I've been a dark chocolate fan for the longest time).  
This is the "loving surprises" part.

Hubby and I have two grown children at home (ages 19 and 14).  Almost everything about them is "adult."  Well, maybe because even when they were kids, we treated them like adults in every possible way, foremost of which was valuing their inputs.  Mind you though, we believe in the Biblical principles (read: using the rod then was part of our disciplining process, now they're too old for that).  Anyway, the "adult" that I mean here is that we divide food, in this case, this pack of Hershey's miniatures into equal parts.  After opening the pack, the first thing to do was to count how many pieces are inside.  Can you guess?  ... 

So this

Became this

And that is what I mean when I said "hating democracy"!

Parenting is certainly the most challenging of 'em all (once a parent, always a parent).   As a Mom, I try my best to teach my kids life lessons every chance I get.  This one's about sharing.

How's your week coming along?   

Two Pigs and a Monkey

Promised my son that we will get him a pair of futsal (indoor football) shoes after we're quite settled with school expenses.  That day turned out to be yesterday.  

 For the majority of their young lives, my kids were both into Wushu.  When my daughter turned 18, we asked her to shift to strength training, while my son opted to try-out in their school's futsal team.  Not much of a change for my daughter, she just needed new sets of jogging pants and shirts, but for my son, he requested for a new pair specialized shoes. Buying futsal shoes turned out to be more difficult than anyone of us thought.  We literally went to all the sports stores at SM North EDSA and Trinoma.  If you're familiar with these two shopping malls, they are easily a mile apart.  

After a short lunch, we had to do divide ourselves to save time in accomplishing our "missions." Hubby went with daughter as she needed to have her cellular phone's lcd repaired.  Off I went with my son.  Walked, walked, and walked, putting my endurance to wearing plat form sandals to the next level.  It was a full two hours of walking before we finally found the right pair (*triple sigh here*).

Next in our list was shopping for our grocery supplies, which is really hubby's domain (he does the cooking).  This time I asked my son to go with him, while daughter  and I headed off to the ladies' section.  Got myself  three hankies and saw these three cute pairs of socks!  Yes, two pigs and a monkey!  Don't you just love a cute pair of socks to match your rubber shoes? I do!

Wishin' you all a most productive week!!