Sweet Life With Mary

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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 [...]

Sometimes Jack and I would have a discussion about cheeses, the kinds we’ve had, our favorites, memories associated with them.  One of the things I would talk about is Kesong Puti.  Literally translated from Tagalog to English- “white cheese.”  It is the quintessential Filipino cheese from the milk of the carabao (water buffalo). 
I remember Mom [...]

It is Mary’s 6th Birthday.  Though, she would negotiate with you that she is actually 6 1/4 or 6 1/2 or even, 7.  She wants to be older, I don’t know why.  Also, when we had an advanced birthday party for her with her friends in Colorado, April 19th, before we left for our extended [...]

(To get myself disciplined in updating this blog regularly, I am choosing to join Nablopomo for this month. Nablopomo stands for National Blog Posting Month where bloggers are challenged to post everyday in November. Eden, the blogger who started the group, had recently initiated, for people who do not want to wait till [...]

Just came off spending most of the weekend with my best friend’s family. Rowena, is my very best buddy from university. We went through a lot of good times and not-so-good times during the last 2 1/2 years of my 5-year college experience. I feel so lucky having stayed in touch with her [...]

First of all, I had to get used to the way the typhoons (tropical cyclones or hurricanes occurring in the western Pacific Ocean and China Sea) are named nowadays. It used to be Filipino women’s names ending in “ng” like, typhoon “Yoling”— a particularly devastating one when I was kid and then there is [...]

The same rain that Mary loved playing in from the previous blog entry, brought the first flood that Mary witnessed first hand at my parents’ house.
As I mentioned before, there is a stream that runs behind our house. With a really heavy downpour, the water rise and eventually floods our area.

My father (and later [...]

Check off one item from our mental list of things to do while Mary and I are  in the Philippines.
I would regale Mary of stories of getting soaked under the warm torrential rains, as a kid, with my brother and sisters, especially when we get caught out in the rain in Colorado and had to [...]