Sweet Life With Mary

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 [...]

Or, as Mary put it, “I was kicked out of school.”
Mary only had two days of school here in the Philippines after all.  I was told to take her out of the class she was in as she was not “qualified.”
It was on the list of things we wanted to do here in the Philippines [...]

First Day of School is always a day of excitement and apprehension for the child going to school and for the mom (and/or dad) of the young one. I would imagine that going to school for the first time where one does not speak the language would a bit more challenging.
Mary did well… very [...]

Across the miles…
Thank you, Dad for this grand vacation I’m having with Mommy. I love it here in the Philippines, you should come with us sometime.
Want some of my drink? It’s mango shake.
Yesterday, we were at a mall, after we dropped off my cousin, Joe, at the airport.  Mommy will tell you more [...]