It's been three years and three months since Jeff and I met, and twenty one months since we got married.
I'd like to share a note that Jeff wrote on his Facebook in Christmas of 2011. I meant to write this during the holiday season, but our schedules were really tight and kind of forgot about it. I still get teary eyed when I read this. And as I write this note, there's a lump in my throat that's about to explode. What Jeff wrote made me realize that true love is indeed worth the wait and worth keeping. Everyday, I feel very blessed to be loved like Jeff loves me. The best thing about us is not me loving him 101%, it is him loving me and is returning that 101%. Or maybe even more.
Hope you are enjoying your Sunday, friends!
I'd like to share a note that Jeff wrote on his Facebook in Christmas of 2011. I meant to write this during the holiday season, but our schedules were really tight and kind of forgot about it. I still get teary eyed when I read this. And as I write this note, there's a lump in my throat that's about to explode. What Jeff wrote made me realize that true love is indeed worth the wait and worth keeping. Everyday, I feel very blessed to be loved like Jeff loves me. The best thing about us is not me loving him 101%, it is him loving me and is returning that 101%. Or maybe even more.
Hope you are enjoying your Sunday, friends!
A Christmas NoteDecember 24, 2011, 11:35pmThe last time I completed a Simbang Gabi cycle was in 2009, which was a particularly challenging year for me. Aside from being in-between jobs, I came from a complicated dating scenario. So that year, I challenged myself to complete the 9-dawn cycle. I wasn't in it for the "wish", it was more of a personal short-term goal that I wanted to accomplish. Upon completing it, someone asked me what I wished for. I wasn't really thinking about it, but told myself what the heck, I'll ask for a job and for "the one" to finally come. Yes, I was a hopeless romantic, so sue me.2010 came, and the first 9 months were pretty much like what 2009 was. Stuck in a desk job I accepted since I got desperate, and yep, still no luck in the lovelife department. Then October came. I got a job in the Ayala group of companies, and I met Joy, the woman I'm marrying this coming April.I'm not saying that my completion of the 2009 Simbang Gabi helped me grant my wish. It made Christmas 2009 extra special, since it was an accomplishment in a down year for me. Just like my misfortunes of 2009 and 1st half of 2010, it made the blessings that came afterward so much more special. Just like what Mary and Joseph went through, finding a place to stay with Mary going through labor, the end result was worth it, the birth of our Savior, the beginning of our salvation.This particular Christmas, I'm thankful for my family. They may be crazy, and we might not be perfect, but I wouldn't be where I am without them. I'm thankful for my TRUE friends, through thick and thin, whatever the situation may be, they have always been there for me. And last, especially not the least, I'm thankful for Joy. She was the light at the end of my long dark tunnel., living proof that God knows best for me, that trusting Him is the ONLY way to go.We need not suffer so that our prayers may be answered. Suffering and sacrifice makes us our blessings so much sweeter, and thus makes us much more grateful.For anyone who is losing, or has lost hope, well don't. God has greater plans for all of us. Your prayers will be addressed in the right way, at the right time. Just ask Joy :)Have a Blessed Christmas Everyone!
Jeff and I would regularly kick two pillows off the bed -- the pillows that came from MakatiMed. We don't do this because they aren't our favorite. It's just because they are too thin and not fluffy anymore.
We love pillows. We have six that we bought from Sleepcare when we got married. They always have the 4+2 promo. When Jeff was confined in MakatiMed last December 2012, the nurses told us that we can take the two pillows home. So we did. Last December 2013, it was my turn to be admitted and so we have two more additional pillows. I figured this would just be additional pillows on the bed and we will eventually not fit in there anymore. So I had the bright idea of making two huge pillows out of these four MakatiMed pillows, plus the big throw pillow that my mom gave me.
I started by cutting fabrics from my sewing supplies. I didn't know the size, I just cut them. I sew the sides using the sewing machine at home. I unpacked the cotton from the old (and new) pillows, and put them inside the fabric that I sew. I sew the open side of the pillow by hand. And that's it! It only took me thirty minutes to recycle the most hated pillows on our bed.
Now these are our favorites! Haha! I used two pillow cases to cover them because, I have yet to sew cases for them. I shall get some pretty fabric when I go back to Antipolo or Taytay to make pillow cases. Here's my recycled pillow!
How about you? What do you do with your ugly, unfluffy pillows? Do you just throw them away?
I was at Greenbelt 5 at 10:30AM for my OB appointment. After a short chitchat, it was over. I went downstairs to the pharmacy to buy my medicine and roamed around Greenbelt 3 and planned to go home. I later found out from Jeff that the shuttles going back to BF Homes start at 3PM. So we decided that Jimmy, our driver, will take me home instead. I felt hungry so it's a good reason to spend some money and eat. I remembered that one of my favorites, Pepper Lunch, is in the area. I walked back to Greenbelt 5.
One night, while playing mahjong at Topher and Sam's house in Katipunan, our friend Gots said the most enlightening statement ever -- that mother-in-laws are not evil, they are simply not our mothers.
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| Queen Narissa from the Disney movie, Enchanted. |
My mama told me that I was breastfed until I was two years old. I don't remember liking milk because I know that since I was a kid, I was drinking coffee. I remember my dad making me black coffee every morning before I went to school when I was in kindergarten. One summer while we were in Tarlac for our annual vacation, my Lola made us coffee with cream. My life was changed. I never wanted to drink black coffee ever again.
I never thought I'll ever write about cancer. My earliest memory of it is my Tita Bessie, my mom's eldest sister, who was very sick when I was in kindergarten. I didn't know it was cancer until I was in grade school. I can't seem to understand what it was. I just knew she was sick. A few months later, she passed away. It was a blurry memory. I was a kid and I didn't feel the pain of losing a relative. I still didn't know that feeling. Tita Bessie taught me that losing a family member is a sad thing. I didn't know her pain as well.
Late in 2012, my friend Faye was diagnosed with Stage 1 cancer. In February 2013, she had a total hysterectomy. She had her entire reproductive system taken out. She is a survivor. A very brave woman that I will always look up to. You can read her story here.
Late in 2012, my friend Faye was diagnosed with Stage 1 cancer. In February 2013, she had a total hysterectomy. She had her entire reproductive system taken out. She is a survivor. A very brave woman that I will always look up to. You can read her story here.
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| Taken at Mom and Tina's in Mother's Day. |
