New Year Celebration and Lyka's Birthday

 This new year, we decided not to have a family gathering because of the new strain of corona virus. Anyway, we had two family celebrations prior to that, the house blessing and Christmas. My children had their own new year celebrations at their respective homes and also they celebrated Lyka's birthday. My new year's wish for my family is that may the Lord continue to bless us with good health, safety, protection, peace, happiness and covid free. 

A Blessed 2021 for Everyone!!!

A very happy new year to everybody and we are all excited to enter into this fresh year and hopefully will put an end to the tough and challenging times we did experienced. I thank God that despite the pandemic we were able to finished Lhed and Buddy's house.  We are also thankful and grateful that we are all safe during the pandemic. It was really a tough year, mentally, emotionally and financially but our Lord Jesus Christ guide and helped us. May this upcoming year be full of blessings, new hopes and good times for everyone especially for my family and friends. And may the Lord continue to bless my family with good health and may they continue to be a blessings to others. God bless my family especially to my OFW daughters Rose Belle and Astrid, may the Lord guide and protect them always.

Our Doggies

 I am very happy to see our furry babies when we had our family thanksgiving outreach in Langgam.  Eventhough they are not anymore under my care, they still remember me.  Chacha is already old and got blind but she acts likes there's no hindrances.  She still  show her motherly love to King and they really love each other.

Christmas, Realizations and More

 First of all i want to wish everybody Happy Holidays and a prosperous 2021. This year was a very tough one, the year started with Taal eruption, then comes Covid 19 , series of earthquakes and typhoons. It was not a good year for everyone not only in our country but the whole world.  Our Lord gave his message very clearly, slow down, spend time with family, appreciate what you have, care for the nature, pray, reflect, help and make your health & family your priority. Amidst of all the things that happened, we are still very grateful that we are not alone in this journey, our Lord helped and guide us. Life must go on, we celebrated Christmas with family and friends, held our family thanksgiving outreach, celebrated Dirk's birthday and have our Casa ManaRosa blessed. I really thank God for the gift of  life,  courage, family&friends and all the blessings he had bestowed on us. We now live under the new normal and we will continue to explore life with God's guidance, realizations and lessons learned in this challenging times.

Family Thanksgiving

 Our sharing is caring project is now on its 4th year and we are already starting to prepare the grocery items to be distributed to the people in need in Langgam, San Pedro, Laguna. Thanks to my daughter Arianne, her husband Joseph and kids for doing all the tasks. Also, i am very grateful to the donors especially my daughters Rose Belle & Astrid, my brother in Law Joey and Buddy, they are our family's team abroad. In this time of pandemic during this christmas season, we can make people happy in our own small way.

 By the way, when i go to Makati using the point to point bus, they are really very careful in following the health and safety protocols for the commuters.

On the way to San Pedro, i bought Puto Bumbong which i haven't eat for 4 years i think, so craving satisfied.