AC’s Birthday at the “Mall” . . .

Saturday, Jack drove the gurls (KC, AB, LT and of course AC) and I over to the mall to “celebrate” AC’s birthday. She had invited two other gurls but they weren’t able to make it. I thought I’d do something different for AC’s birthday this year by having her invite 5-6 friends. [...]

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A Japanese Dollar Store . . .

called “Daiso!” After “visiting” AC’s god-parents, they told us about this new Japanese dollar store where Circuit City/Good-Guys used to be near Serramonte Mall. Actually, most of the items are $1.50 but you can’t compare this to those “Dollar Tree” stores. Most of those typical dollar stores sell crappy merchandise but Daiso [...]

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Go Humm . . .

After work, Lea went with AC and me to drop off the statue of the Virgin Mary over to AC’s god-parent’s house. As I was parking in front of their house, I wasn’t sure it was their house because there was a brand spanking new Hummer parked in the driveway. That could have [...]

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Bring Your Child To Work . . .

Errr….what child? The last time I brought AC to work was about 3 years ago. Two years ago CE brought AC with her to the city . . . I don’t know why I didn’t bring her last year, nor this year; however, we wanted some “free” food so we “pretended” to have a [...]

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Happy Birthday Nanay!

Today would have been Nanay’s 85th birthday. Although she is no longer with us, AC still “makes” birthday cards for her. (Nanay always treasured the home made cards that AC has made for her over the years.) Before going to bed last night, AC showed me the card she made for Nanay. [...]

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Rest in peace, Nanny . . .

I got a call from KV yesterday afternoon telling me that her grandmother, whom we call Nanny had passed away at the age of 90. KV’s uncle had brought Nanny into the hospital that Saturday while KV was at our house because she had complained of some stomach pain. KV was told [...]

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A blessing for AC . . .

For the past 14 years, AC’s god-parents (LN & MN) have been bringing the statue of the Blessed Virgin over to our house the week of AC’s birthday. In the beginning of my pregnancy I had a “problem” while I was carrying AC. As a “devotion” to the Blessed Virgin, she has been [...]

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Happy 14th Birthday AC!

To my baby gurl, here’s wishing you a beautiful birthday! May all your dreams come true! On Saturday we’re planning to celebrate AC’s birthday by inviting a few gurls to hang out with her at the mall. I remember Nanay telling us that if we ever “celebrate” birthdays, it’s best [...]

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My “bestfriend” in the kitchen . . .

has to be my crock-pot. When I first got the crock-pot a little over a year and a half ago, we had crock-pot chicken every single Monday . . . yes, I repeat every single Monday. Eventually as months passed, we got tired of it. I haven’t really made good use of [...]

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AC’s “pre-birthday” lunch . . .

April is such a busy month for birthdays . . . we start off with KV, AC, Nanay, Jane, CE, my father-in-law and my nephew, “Boboli” . . . particularly their birthdays follow one another. Anyhoo, since we won’t be able to take AC out for her birthday dinner tomorrow, we decided to take [...]

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