Happy Fathers Day Daddy! I Miss your Hugs!
Whenever I hear Eagle’s “Hotel California”, I get all sorts of homesick. I’m missing my dad so much. I miss kissing his scruffy warm cheeks, his infectious smile, and most of all I miss his power bear hugs.
I have lots of happy memories with those bear hugs. It was always enough to make everything alright. I remember when I was 11, I was devastated, I took it very hard when I first lost to a singing competition. I literally broke down and sobbed. I don’t want to talk to dad because I thought I disappointed him for not winning. But then, he came up to me, hugged me and told me that I did great and he’s always proud of me no matter what. With that, it prompted me to join more competitions, i didn’t always win but I was able to enjoy the experience of it all, knowing that dad will always be there and will always be my number 1 fan.
Healthy Lunch For Kids: Cream Dory with White Sauce
I’m not a fan of chicken nuggets, I’m not sure what brand of nuggets I bought one time but I bought a different brand they all tastes the same, and they taste like plastic, it doesn’t taste anything at all, and with that, it’s not worth my money and I want to buy real food that tastes good.
My daughter will start schooling next week and I want to plan her school lunch menu as early as possible. I want my kid to have a delicious, healthy and satisfying lunch, and the same time I want something easy to prepare and not too expensive for her to eat at school. This is why I’m removing the chicken nuggets from my menu list.
Viva Forever: A Spice Girls Musical
Have you ever heard of “Spice Girls”? I hit puberty listening to their songs. Haha! And I think the Spice Girls gained another fan here, my daughter. I introduced her to their music a few months ago while we were browsing music videos in YouTube. I heard her singing again this morning, she keep on singing my favorite spice girl song, “Mama”. I like it every time she sings that part “Mama I love you”, she smiles and looks at me, and that’s the only part she understands, ahhaha!
I suddenly feel nostalgic, because that’s the song I always play everytime my mom and I fight. So anyways, I had free time early this morning, so I wanted to catch up with my favorite girl band. Last thing I heard was that they had a reunion 3 or four years ago and they had a short-lived North American spice girl tour. It was short-lived because they need to attend to their mom duties especially for Geri, Mel C. and Emma who are newly moms back then.
As I was browsing, I saw this documentary-slash-behind-the-scenes musical named after their song Viva Forever. It’s a musical based on Spice girls’ songs. It’s about a story of a girl named Viva, and her adventures chasing her dreams to become a well-known artist in the cut throat music industry, it’s also about her complex relationship with her mama. Sounds familiar huh? Heheh! Oh and did you know that it’s produced by Judy Craymer and Jennifer Saunders, who also produced another hit musical “Mamma Mia”.
Family Summer Getaway: 10 Must-Have Beach Essentials
I remember going to the beach with my family when I was younger. One particular beach getaway we had was when we went to Hundred Islands in Lingayen Pangasinan. Its pristine white sand beaches reminds me of those Caribbean beaches i can only see on TV. The place was well taken care of and its not that crowded and commercialized like Boracay.
I also remember my mom , she was all tired and worn out before even stepping onto the sand because it was a last minute decision to have that “Hundred Islands family getaway trip”, so she took care of everything that night before, we woke up and its all ready!. Whew! Those were my worry free days, now I’m the one taking care of packing things for my family.
We just have our family beach getaway a few days ago. It was fun and tiring at the same time. I made all the packing and I think it took me 4 hours to get ready. It would have been less stressful if i have prepared at least half of the stuff the night before. Good thing though, I slept early and was able to wake up early too, I cooked, clean and managed to get all the things listed on my list. That’s the reason I slept early the night before, I was making that long checklist. I hope this checklist will help you too to prepare for your next family beach getaway.
The Coolest Back to School Finds
Books, check! Uniform, check! Class schedule, check! Yuri is now officially enrolled at Luv en Lern Preschool yey! Next step, is to shop for school gears and things for my little one. I remember when I was little, this is the time where my mom and I go to malls to shop for school things and I always look for the coolest pencil cases with lots of buttons. Now it’s me and my daughter shopping for school stuff, good thing she prefers crayons than my nerdy “bat mobile-like-pencil cases”, it’s now more expensive these days, whew!
My Foodstop at Liliw Laguna’s Arabela Restaurant
My family and I used to go to Liliw Laguna for cheap quality local made shoes and slippers, but aside from that, this little known place is famous because of Arabela. It’s food bloggers haven for sumptuous Italian food, delectable desserts and salads.
Back to my Parents House….Again(rolling eyes)
Before you get your imagination running elsewhere, let me just clarify that no, my marriage is still intact and my husband and I are very much still together. I did move out of our house just last week because we had no water, because water system in our subdivision was being fixed.
My husband originally is with us when we slept the first night at my parents’ house but we both can’t sleep, that’s all because we’re sleeping in someone else’s house. So anyways, since my husband has this upcoming conference, he really needs to sleep and use the computer in the wee hours of morning, he can’t do that in my parents’ house so he was forced to sleep in our house and goes to my parents’ house only to eat and use the bathroom. Me and Yuri, we lived there for almost a week. That’s one week of difficult sleep, almost no sleep at all.
