Sweet Life With Mary

That one of the best memories Mary and I will take with us from our trip here in the Philippines will be of ice skating. ICE SKATING. Philippines, the tropics, sun, beach… ICE SKATING!
Yes, ice skating. In an indoor Olympic-size skating rink. In the biggest mall in the Philippines, the Mall of Asia, supposedly MoA [...]

Picnic Grove, Tagaytay, Philippines where Mary finally got sunburnt.  Me, too.
For the most part, I had been very careful about applying sunblock for both Mary and I.  As it had been cloudy and rainy for the last month or so, we had not done much outdoor sightseeing— our trips had mostly been to the mall [...]

When I was young, I would point to this bread through the glass shelf rather than call it by name when I wanted to buy some.  Never knew what it was called.  When I would have our house help get them for me, I would say, “… ‘yung may violet sa gitna…” - the bread [...]

My husband, Jack made a recent blog entry on his blog, jackbergstrom.com, regarding libraries and prompted me to do this entry.
This is one of the things Jack and I have in common- our love of libraries, and reading, and books.  Though, not necessarily the same books or subject matter.  I have read at least a [...]

I’ve never seen anyone as excited in accomplishing anything.  I took a picture of it and right away, Mary wanted to show it around.
“Show Ging-ging!!!” “Show Mama Me!!!” “Show Lolo!!!!!!…”
She wanted to share her success with everyone.
“I wanna tell Daddy about it!!!”
And for the first time, she asked me to do a blog post.  “Put it [...]

The routine around my parents’ house is that after supper (which is usually around 6 pm), Mom would relax in front of the TV and watch the news and whatever is on GMA Channel 7.  (Mom has a strange loyalty to this channel and ALL its shows, strange to me but quite natural for her.)  [...]

I had mentioned that I will be posting eveyday for the month of July and it will be about food.
Though this post is not exactly about food, it is somehow related.
Today, Mary had her last dental appointment.  She went on a series of them as she had a lot of cavities that we did not [...]

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My Big Fat Birthday Balloon

Kids decorating their “loot” bags

Mary opens presents

Practicing for the Calamansi Relay Game

Mary prepares to blow out her birthday cake

Without Banana-Q.  Mary’s new favorite afternoon snack.

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More birthday photos, later today….
 

Mary is celebrating her birthday today, again. 
She had a celebration three months before her birthday , in Colorado before we moved from there.
Then, three days ago, there was the chicken killing and noodles and all that…
Today will be her party for a few kids— cousins and new friends in the Philippines.
Its her first Philippine party.
Since [...]