Category: Featured

  • The Vow: Starring Richard Poon and Maricar Reyes

    It’s been a week since Richard Poon and Maricar Reyes (ooh! now Poon, too!)  said their “I do’s”. It was an honor to stand as one of their witnesses during the wedding. More importantly, it is an honor to stand as a witness of God’s faithfulness in their lives, including their new journey called marriage. […]

  • How the Year Began

    Today was somewhat an emotional day for me. I was going through photos of Isaiah’s birth, first weeks here at home, his hospitalization, and his most recent pictures— and I can’t help but cry. It was only after looking at the pictures that I realized how he went from having really chubby cheeks to losing […]

  • H-A-P-P-I-N-E-S-S in Marriage

    Found this post again among the files I managed to “salvage” back when my site’s host failed me. This one’s dated June 19, 2009, but I still think it serves as a good reminder for me. 🙂 —————————————————————— We just came home from our good friends’ bridal shower and stag party (same house, different rooms […]

  • Thermodynamics

    Thermometer (thr-mm-tr) n. An instrument for measuring temperature, especially one having a graduated glass tube with a bulb containing a liquid, typically mercury or colored alcohol, that expands and rises in the tube as the temperature increases.   Thermostat (thûrm-stt) n. A device that automatically controls heating or cooling equipment in such a way as […]

  • Desires vs Expectations

    Growing up, how did you imagine life to be? How did you see yourself as a married woman? What kind of man did you dream of marrying? How did you envision the father of your children to be? What kind of life did you dream of living? I’m sure all of us have answers to […]

  • You Are Loved

    “You are loved!” This phrase has been going around within our circle of friends lately. At first it was just to joke around and tease our good friend Nove Ann Tan since this was one thing she would ALWAYS tell almost every person she encountered. I say it with no exaggeration– almost every. single. person. […]

  • My New Year’s Resolution…

    ……is not to have a new year’s resolution. Now that I think about it, I realize that I have stopped trying to make New Year resolutions years ago. I think somewhere along the way I noticed how they never seemed to work for me…or for anyone else that I know. Resolutions are all about us […]

  • My Christmas Calendar

    And my free day this month is…was…is…. nada! tsk.tsk.tsk… The word I seem to be using a lot this month is “DELIBERATE“. With all the activities and parties this month, I have to be deliberate in making sure that we and the kids get to to enjoy each other more than we do the parties. […]

  • Ten Ways to Beat the “All I Want for Christmas” Syndrome

    It doesn’t take very long for parents to realize that humans (i.e. kids) are born with a self-centered orientation. That’s a nicer way of saying that we are generally born selfish. This is one of the things we never teach our kids, but for some reason one of the earliest fights they have with their […]

  • Are You Ready for Christmas?

    I’M NOT. SO NOT. Case in point…. Before: Every part… …of the… …house… …was made up (including the CR). Schedules… …and menu… (for eight dinner parties) …were set… …and planned… …even before… …Halloween! —————————————————————————————————- This year: Nothing close to that has happened yet. 🙂 Here’s my dropped and dead-looking garland. Oh! Is it Christmas already??? […]