:WW- Ruth's Graduation

My eldest kid is now moving up to secondary school and I'm posting her graduation pics here! She graduated from primary school last April 5 after the holy week and I had a very busy schedule so I'm just posting it now. Just look at our picture together, looks like another year or so and she'll be taller than me. She really grow up fast and I just wish that even if she looks like a young lady now she's still my Baby Ruth. I'm going to enroll her in a Christian School and I hope that she'll be more guided there and I asked her to be more focused in her studies now. She didn't get an honor but she has high grades on all her subjects. God Bless and guide her on her next endeavor.

Forgive me for being wordful again, I forgot it's for wordless wednesday. Click the badge for more entries!

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Best Job I’ve Ever Had

Because of the successive graduation and recognition ceremonies for all our three kids we have tons of pictures ready for color printing now and I’m trying to sort out almost duplicate pictures to save funds. I’m happy that all school activities were finished and I was able to get their clearances and class cards yesterday. I’m completing all requirements of my eldest and youngest kid for their entrance in primary and secondary school. I’ve just completed them all and secured NSO certificates so I’m just waiting for our salaries to enroll our eldest earlier so I can concentrate on the other two.

Online job is a good source of income but it’s not a stable one unlike the pay you have when you’re employed so you have to practice wise planning and budgeting. If you have a good income these days you have to save money for the times when work is not overflowing. But I must say being a work-at-home Mom is the best job I’ve ever had.

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:BM/RT: Gen's Recognition Day

I'm posting here my dear daughter's recognition ceremony. Gen has been so focused and devoted on her goals of returning to the top five of her class having lost it last year and been included only in the top ten of the class. She's a consistent honor since her preparatory school and last year's failure to be at the top five didn't put her down but instead gave her inspiration to study and persevere more.

On the last week of March all her efforts has been rewarded because she got the 4th place in her grade 5 section 1 class of more than 50 students. I'm proud of her not being on the top five but of her dedication and positive attitude that she can make it again to come back in her former place. I'm very happy and proud of her. God helped her achieve her goals.

Sharing her photos here:

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Holiday Snacking

It’s a holiday today celebrating our country’s National Heroes Day in remembrance to the great heroes that fought for the country’s liberty and freedom. For the working employees and laborers it means a day off from a week’s work and for those who worked on this day it’s a double wage compensation because it’s a red letter day on the calendar or commonly called national regular holiday. I really can’t forget completely my human resource work experience in the office as I keep on remembering the dates and rules on wages just like remembering easy life insurance quotes I have to find for my cousin.

Anyway my sis had a day off and we treated the whole household to a home-made halo halo (a combination of sweet desserts with crushed ice and milk) with all the yummy ingredients we grouped together. We had some hard time in making crushed ice but managed to do it well in the end. We invited some nieces in the compound and we had a real yummy snack with tortillos and breads. It’s all fun for the kids while they’re having online games in both PC’s. We don’t let them play all day; we managed to discipline them in a time-scheduled game schedule in order not to make them addicted to it. Forgot to take pictures of our yummy halo-halo. It’s all gone in a flash.

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:TC - Small Animals - Birds

Thursday Challenge

for fun and learning

"SMALL ANIMALS" (Pets, Insects, Birds,...)

I took the shot of these small birds at my son's school while waiting for him to finish his special examinations. He had been sick for three days in time for their periodical exams so I was given a schedule for him to take the special exams. I brought my digicam to spend my waiting hours outside the room and got interested in the birds flying in and out the schooll's perimeter. I took the first shot near the bench I'm sitting on. Cute little birds and we call it 'Maya'. We also have plenty of them here in our backyard because we have many fruit trees here. View my other entry here!

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Friends Are Like Walls...

Friends are always there for us to share our happiness and griefs, our ups and downs, our success and failures and many things that happen in our lives. During the saddest moments of our lives God is our refuge and He uses our friends for us to cry on their shoulders. They're like walls that we can lean on and just knowing they're there for us to accompany and hear our problems is a great relief and help. Friends are important people in our lives and we should thank God for giving them to us. Such blessings!

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Safe Investments

With the current inflation going on people are thinking about the best investment that can give them better profit. Some people invest in house and lot, jewelries, stocks and other known investments that used to yield more profit but these days economic crisis affect these things. I’ve known a friend who turned to a different kind of investment and started to buy gold bars because he figured that this precious metal appreciate value and more likely to give better profit returns in the coming years.

It’s better to invest on safer grounds than risk your hard-earned money on unstable goods. With precious metals like gold you can invest on gold bullion and gold coins to ensure that your money is placed on safe investments.

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Top Droppers for March 2010

Just came back from three-day rest from blogging and from summer camp fellowship meeting in Indang, Cavite. I want to thank my daily visitors and droppers here in my site even if sometimes I can't reciprocate your visits due to intermittent connection and busy schedule.

Dropper	# of drops
Guitarbench.com	30
moms..... check nyo	29
Life's sweets and spices	28
The Modern Mom	28
Mommy's Little Corner	28
A Simple Life	28
Yummy-as-can-be	28
Wirez and Circuitz	26
Jean sQuared	26
Fledgling Blogger	23

Thanks to my friend Liz for making it to the top ten with 6 of her blogs! Appreciate your visits!

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Some Nice Good Books

My cousin always visits me and Mom on her free time and because she saw that I’m fond of reading books in between doing my online and offline tasks she went to her friend. The friend who has a nice collection of good books to read lends some nice ones for me to borrow. I was surprised and glad when I saw the books and it’s nice to note down that books are about work attitude, inspirational, friendship and family. I really enjoy reading but sometimes I don’t have the privilege and luxury of time. Maybe this summer vacation will give me ample time to do some of my hobbies.

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Josh' Moving Up Ceremony

Before the Ceremony

With Dear Tita Mama

With DaddyWith Me

With Teacher Joan

With Friends With Lola DearJosh graduated from preparatory school last Monday the 22nd day of March and we're all excited about his last moving up ceremony as preparatory student. He's going to move up to primary schooling next school year and the whole family is all giddy about it. I had tons of pics (as always) and I just picked some for this site. I'll be posting some on my other blogs.

For this year he got the 2nd place, the Best in Reading award and that makes it three in a row. On his nursery he got the 2nd place also and last year in his kinder class he got the 1st place making him the class valedictorian. He also have a Loyalty Award because he's been in St. Audrey since nursery. This is the first time that he didn't have a piece to speak as in the last two years he's the one who delivers the speech for the giving of certificates to the honors. The speech was in Filipino language and I think it's more appealing to the graduates and parents. My opinion only of course!

As always St. Audrey is on time with the graduation ceremony finishing it before the kids gets tired much to my relief! We started at 8:30 am and before 10am we've finished with the photo shoot. We headed to our house to pick Mom and ate at Josh' fave KFC. At lunch time we brought packed foods to Ruth & Gen.

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