Sweet Life With Mary

And some Filipino pride.
I was getting ready to write my entry for Wish:A Group Writing Project and had to look it up at Wifely Steps where I first learned about it. I had to scroll through some older entries and came across Toni’s post about Arnel Pineda, the new lead singer for Journey. I listened [...]

Jack went to visit his mom and sister in Iowa last week and when he was getting ready to return, he asked me what I would like for pasalubong? Good hubby, knows exactly what to say to his Pinay wife.
Then, he asks, “What is MY pasalubong?”
“No, that’s not what the word means in Tagalog— YOU are supposed to [...]

Rachelle did a blog post on Monday regarding her Musical Confessions— A dozen songs I SHOULDN’T love… But I do and had challenged her readers to play along.
Here is my musical confession—
Ten Songs I Shouldn’t Sing… But I do
Killing Me Softly With His Song by Roberta Flack
The Search is Over by Survivor
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Torn [...]

Mary is so excited about Halloween.  She has been counting the days until Wednesday when she gets to dress up in her witch’s costume and wear it to school as well for trick-or-treating out at the Pearl Street Mall and around our neighborhood.
I remember getting excited around this time of the year when I was [...]

Tagalog - I run across a lot of Westerners who insist that the official language of the Philippines is Tagalog.  I try to explain that is is actually called “Filipino” which is based on the dialect Tagalog.  
From the Official Website of the Republic of the Philippines 
LANGUAGE
Two official languages — Filipino and English. Filipino, which is [...]

How an Edward Jones representative had me waxing poetic (and nostalgic) about Philippine street snacks
As I was coming back from my Walk/Jog yesterday morning, this guy was also walking up to my driveway. He was dressed in a nice suit, good-looking so I did not feel threatened when he came up to me.  He introduced himself, [...]

I had no concept of playdates.  This is quite foreign to me.  It is not something that I was able to glean from books, movies or TV shows as part of an American childhood. 
It was the same as my discovering that the best translation of sundo is “ride”.  Back in my elementary days, there was [...]

My daughter, Mary Esther is a “tisay“.  What does that mean?
Tisay is a play on the word - mestiza - which is a Spanish word for a female individual of mixed racial descent. (Mestizo is used to describe the male gender.) (Pronounced the same as you would - tea-sigh.)
Initially, mestiza was used to describe women [...]