Happy New Year everyone! Goodbye 2019 and Hello 2020! This is to welcome the new year here at my blog and thank you for all my readers who support me throughout, Thank You So Much.

The family never gets tired of preparing foods for the new year celebration, especially me because I have 2 kids who longing to have even just a simple celebration just the 4 of us. Yah! I did prepare some foods that my kids love it and requested to have in our table.

For this year, simple food for a simple family like us. For Kuya Maki, he loves Graham Cake, while Playfull Gelo likes Pork Tonkatsu and Siomai, yeah I included that food that my kids love it. A picture taking before the celebration to capture the bonding moments that we have.

I hope that this year will be fruitful and will have more happiness, cross finger! The year 2019 was full of struggle, hardship, and sadness, I guess, that is why I'm praying and claiming to make 2020 bountiful, abundant, and blessed. This is not only for me and my family but to you, my readers, as well. Thank You!

Okay, it's so serious, haha. To make the moment memorable. I just want to share our Tira Tira Party! Tira Tira means leftover food, for sure all of us experience it, right? Even a simple celebration with few foods in our table still we cannot finish it all in one sitting. Like, the salad and ham, we can't finish it all.

Just to have a simple celebration because we just stayed in the house, I made a tira tira party at the veranda of the 3rd house in our compound, the house of my Kids' GrandMother/Lola in the side of my hubby's family.

I just did a ham and egg sandwich because we had many leftovers of ham. We really can't finish all of that. I prepared 5 different sandwiches for my loved ones. I just want to share it because I am happy to prepare it for them and laughing as while preparing for it because I realized that even though we are one family, still, each of us has different likes when it comes to food.

Here are the 5 sandwiches in our Tira Tira Party
Sandwich No. 1 is for Nanay/Lola Digna and Tatay/Lolo Lito. I just prepared 1 ham and egg sandwich with fries for them. Nanay just cut it into halves for the both of them already because they can't even finish 1 sandwich at all. Tatay is already bedridden so only Nanay joined us.
Sandwich No 2 is for Kuya Maki, I made ham and egg sandwich with fries with Ketchup and mayo condiments as a dip. He loves ketchup and mayo for his fries. I am so thankful that Kuya Maki doesn't have a fever during the New Year's eve celebration. He has a fever for 2 days (Dec 30 and 31). Thank God.
Sandwich No. 3 is for me, just ham and egg with fries for me. While munching my foods, my youngest son Playfull Gelo asked for more fries from me, of course, I gave it all to him and he gave me a big smile, I just loved it!
Sandwich No. 4 is for Playfull Gelo, is just a plain egg sandwich and fries. He doesn't want a circle ham he wants a square ham, according to him, He just wants the taste of the square ham. I am happy because he finishes it all.
Sandwich No. 5 is for my hubby, Marco. I prepared 2 ham and egg sandwiches with fries. Yah! he finished it all in one sitting, I know his tummy after all.

We also have Biko from Nanay/Lola Digna, Halayang Ube from Nanay Letty, Salad from Mama/Lola Lolit and my Graham Cake. We have a chit chat together and a full tummy afterward.

I am happy that my family loves whatever food I preparing for them. Thankful that I have a skill to cook different dishes as well and they like it and most of the time requesting their favorites. I love them so much that's why I am always happy when I am cooking. And that concludes our #TiraTiraParty.

Thank you so much and I hope you'll enjoy whatever blog I will post for this year 2020! Happy New Year again to all!

Our teeth, one of the very essential part of our body that is being used in our daily lives, needs attention. Its been a while since we visited in our dentist as a family. I was glad that we spent our 1st #DateWithMyBoys at our dearest Dentist and Ninang Dra Meng. She is one of the sponsor on our wedding. Basically our kids should call her Lola but she rather like to be called as Tita Meng. Hehehe.


This is the very 1st check up for Gelo’s teeth. I’m so worried about his teeth because he is now going to be 8 years old and yet he just lost 2 of his teeth. Dra Meng said that maybe Gelo experiencing delay in the development of his teeth or a syndrome i guess. It is because almost his teeth now are still baby teeth. She said also that we need to observe the teeth of Gelo specially if there are new teeth is growing.



Next is our dear eldest son, Maki. I just want to let his teeth be cleaned but it seems that one of his teeth should come off already so Dra Meng extracted his baby tooth that was obstructing the beauty of his smile. I guess this is the only remaining baby tooth that he has. I love the way Ninang Meng did it to Maki. He didn't even noticed that the tooth was already extracted. The only problem that Ninang Meng encountered was that it grows a certain portion of the gums underneath that baby tooth. So she has to remove that portion. One good news is that Maki have beautiful and strong teeth that he doesn't need to wear a brace. Of course we need to take good care of his teeth until he is totally a grown up.

Me, of course, I am so eager to have my teeth be cleaned. I know that if my gums feels swollen already that's the time that i need to visit my dentist. My teeth are not as strong as with my boys. It is weak that I need to have it cleaned twice of thrice a year to avoid any problem with it. Now, I am happy because my teeth are now clean and I can confidently smile every time I have an event or an interview with some showbiz personalities.


Lastly, Daddy Marco since his teeth are so strong and he's very keen in taking good care of his teeth he doesn't need to have cleaning but maybe on our next visit.  He will have his major check up and an extraction maybe.
It was a nice experience dating my boys at our dentist. Thank you so much Ninang/Dra.Meng for taking care of our teeth. Love you so much and see you soon!

Love is in the air, there are too many ways to celebrate hearts day. Usually, families go out on a date, dine in, watching movies, strolling, going to the park and so on and so forth. Now, I did something new for us, I want my kids to remember this kind of celebration. I did a video interview with my kids, asking them about what is valentines day for them and where they will take their date on that day. Even my husband don’t know my plan. Well, it just pop in my mind, so this is it, our different kind of celebration.

Date With Bebe Gelo
Interview session with Bebe Gelo before we went to church. I asked Gelo what is Valentine’s Day for him, he said that it is the time of giving card of love to your date, girlfriend or boyfriend. Watch the video below;

My Next question is "If he is going to have a date with me on Valentine’s Day where will it be?" He Said, Jollibee!!! He is going to eat “all of it”, like burger, French fries and chicken.
So we spent our date at Jollibee and he was so happy. He really likes Jollibee very much and of course I asked him again what we are doing and if he is happy. Gelo said He is happy because he is the 1st kid dating a woman/girl. Yes, he’s so happy because he is the first one to date me than Kuya Maki and Daddy.

Then afterwards, I told him that I have a surprise for him. As we walk going to my surprise, he was so excited, and then suddenly he saw the place, the “Toms World” he immediately hug me and said “Thank You Mommy I love You!” too bad that was the time that I did not took video on him, but still I’m the happiest mom ever because Bebe Gelo is so so so sweet ever. Seeing him walking alone, enjoying the day and keep saying thank you mommy makes me teary eyed because my purpose of this kind of Valentine’s Day celebration was achieved and I know deep in his heart he will remember the way we spent hearts day.

On that note, I thought we end up the day just the two of us, but no, as we were about to left Tom’s World, Bebe Gelo told me that the next time we visit again Tom’s World should be with Daddy Marco and Kuya Maki. I hug him and I told him that we will visit again Tom’s World as Family, maybe Sunday after we attended Church Worship Service.

Date With Kuya Maki
Kuya Maki is my son with a few words to tell. If you ask him then he will answer one word. Kuya Maki is so shy like me, that is when I am still young. But we are pushing Maki to be confident enough to face the world.
Well, I asked Kuya Maki also about Valentine's Day and where he date me on Valentine's Date. Take note Gelo has 2 videos for the specific question , but Kuya Maki compressed in 1 video only. Just like I said, my son with a few words. According to Kuya Maki, Valentine's Day is Love to special person. And he will take me on the resto with burger and chicken because he really loves me.

So we went to Wing Zone, of course I’ll be the one who will pay the bill.I am not worried at all because I have GCs (gift certificate) for that, hehehe. Just to give my son a very memorable Valentine’s Day ever. So we went to Megamall which is so far from our place, but still Kuya Maki manage to go there with me without hassle in travelling.
We ordered Chicken, burger and fries. Maki loves the flavour of chicken, he enjoyed it because according to him it is diffirent from the usual fried chicken he always eat. After our lunch I asked him if he wants some dessert, yes of course Kuya Maki immediately ordered Ice cream, a strawberry ice cream. His favourite flavour and he really enjoyed it he like the way Wing zone served the ice cream.
Of course after lunch I had a surprise for him just like Bebe Gelo, but this time it’s not an arcade. It’s Krispy Kreme Donuts, He really love the glazed donut, so when we went there, his eyes got widened because he is so excited to eat it. But the catch here, I am giving him the money and he is the one buying what he wants to eat. Yes, he did it, he bought 6 glazed donuts and eat it in our house.
Kuya Maki really enjoyed the day, the very far travel for him, the food and of course the surprise, he even thank me for the great day. Love him so much, I love my boys very much.

Date With Daddy Marco
Last but not the least of course date with my hubby. We spent our date after we went to a sort of talks/seminar in the morning. Then Daddy Marco brought me in a resto serving Baby Back Ribs, yes, that’s my favourite. The place is too far but the food is awesome, love it. We spent our Valentine’s Day at Beefalo.
Love the coziness of the place, we just spent our date there. Talk a lot while munching on the food that he ordered especially the Baby Back Ribs. We almost know each other, because we’ve been together for almost 24 years. We are going to celebrate our 18th Wedding Anniversary this year.
Yes my hubby is my bestfriend, my companion, the love of my life and the true man for me. I love him so much and the food is always there for us, we love eating.

And that’s the way we celebrated Valentine’s Day/Date this year. Of course we have a family date as always. I love to date with my boys every day.