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!

There are so much many things to do before the summer ends. And there are more bonding moments to experience with the family just before the school starts. Now that rainy season is coming, going to the mall is one of the best way to spend quality time with your loved ones.
It was great that SM City Fairview have their so-called Q Art Exhibit that their patrons will enjoy and experience a whole fun of scanning those QR codes. It is just as simple as 1 2 3. All you have to do is connect to SM Free Wifi and then downloaded the QR Code Reader via Google Play. Then start scanning some of the QR Codes scattered all over the exhibit area then viola you got yourself some discounts for the store inside the mall. There are some QR Codes once scanned will give you a surprise gift and there are some that will give you discounts and as for me I was able to scanned one QR Code that says "Congratulations you win a surprise gift". Then another scan that I did gave me a free Classicos Jr. from La Lola Churreria. It was really a fun experience and you'll really love scanning those codes to get more discounts and surprises.

The idea of this engaging activity is from SM Supermalls Group Marketing Manager Mr. Jay M. Aranas who hopes to involve not just their customer but the tenants of their mall as well through scanning those QR Codes. According to SM Marketing Officer Ms. Kat Dionisio the particular code saying "Congratulations you win a surprise gift", can claim such as Kitkat chocolates or movie passes depending on the time of the claim. The exhibit have a special booth for claiming those surprise gift items.

It was really engaging. From the time that I posted the news about this through my social media, there were already some of my friends who sent their inquiry about those QR Codes. I was happy that I could disseminate this kind of information fast and what's great was that it gives excitement to those who read my announcement.

So, Mommies after you enroll your kids at their school, give some time to visit SM City Fairview and try to scan those QR Codes. You can let your kids experience the fun together with you. For sure and definitely I will let my hubby and my kids get to try this kind of activity this coming week.

Hurry! The Q Art Exhibit is located at The Atrium of SM City Fairview and will last until June 2, 2017 only. For more details just log on to www.facebook.com/smcityfairview

New Year! I's a brand new year and this is another year to treasure family bonding moments. Yes, it's definitely another bonding moment for us and we love to do it together.
As a start to our family bonding moment, together with my mother, we headed to Araneta Coliseum to experience one of the memories that possible kids will cherries. It's a dream come true for them. It's the Disney On Ice and for this season it is dubbed as Dare to Dream. My kids were really excited! This is their first time to see this Disney On Ice, though my eldest son have seen some theater presentation by their school in some of the cinemas inside the mall but this one is different. It's on ice, they skate and it's musical.
January 4, 2015 is the last showing day for Disney on Ice in the Philippines. The last of their show that runs from December 25,  2014 up to January 4, 2015, but still there are plenty of kids and parents lining up in Araneta just to watch the show. Well, kudos to all the parents who lets their kids experience things, specially this Disney On Ice.
My kids were in awe and got hooked on the show. Since my youngest is still little he wasn't able to see the whole show so what he did is he stand on his chair. Oh, they were really enjoying it. During the show my eldest son were talking to me and telling that he knew the story. There were three (3) stories that was shown and my eldest would tell me that mommy the ending of this is like this or like that. So as a mom I would listen to what he tells and narrate to me.  While watching my hubby keeps on taking pictures of the show and with our kids to document the experience, our official photographer. My mom is just beside me got hooked already and freezing cold. According to her it's her 2nd time in the Araneta.
Too bad and sorry my dear readers because my family wasn't able to make it to the meet and greet of the cast. We didn't get a chance to take picture with the cast due to long line in the Comfort Room. Perhaps it's a good reason to watch the next Disney On Ice this 2015. Hahaha!
Thank you Magnolia Chocolait for the early new year bonding moment with my family. You gave us an opportunity to witness the show of Disney on Ice. This will definitely a treasured experience and memory for me and my kids as this is our 1st time to watch Disney On Ice.
So Mommies, do you have a list of things to do now for your family bonding moment this 2015? Better have it now and start planning for it.

Happy New Year to all!