I'm on my 10th week of pregnancy now.  And like all mother's, I loath my the first trimester of pregnancy.   It gives me a roller coaster ride emotionally and gets me physically drained specially that I am now a SAHM with two terrible yet wonderful kids.  

After confirming another blessing (I'm pregnant again for the third time within four years), my grandma past away.  This has been the reason why I was not able to go back to blogging for more than a month.  Nanay as I call her since she was the one who raised me since I was three months old was  the most humble person I've ever known.  We never heard her complain, ask nor demand anything from anyone even to her children/grandchildren.

It pains me to see her suffer in pain but still manage to smile.  She never complained the  pain she was feeling.  We couln't figure out what was her illness because she was hiding it.  I was so confident that she will get well from severe anemia.  I too, had sever anemia due to bleeding and was able to recover after blood transfusion.  I was so confident that she'll make it coz I made it.  But I was wrong, GOD ended her sufferings. 

I remember my lola told me  that she was not afraid to die because she was always ready. I think she already knew that she'll be living us.  I miss her so much.  I miss my Nanay so much...... 

Life is really so short.  I had lots of plans for her.  I wanted her to enjoy life.  She never had an easy life.  I regret the days that I was not able to spent time with her.  I miss Nanay so much...

I have been reading food blogs for the last two weeks. Once kids are asleep, I would sit in front of my computer to surf baked goodies until my mouth waters and my stomach rumbles. I had sleepless nights, I wanted to bake my very own cake. But I don't have an oven... much more TIME. My terrible two Artoo has been a handful and so is my one year old little Evie. I will be receiving a little amount from my previous employer this month (a terminal pay) and planning to buy an oven to practice baking. I have started another blog called My Kitchen Discoveries. Until now, I could'nt make another post because I have no kitchen discovery as of the moment. I am also happy that I have lose weight, elimated all my pregnancy clothes, baby clothes and baby stuff.

My hubby and I are not planning to have another baby. Two is enough. I am so excited to enroll in a baking class and photoshop class. Excited to bring my kids in a summer workshop. Excited to start my own chocolate fountain rental here in our place. I had lots of dreams and goals for myself and my family.....

And these excitements turn into stress. I was stressed day by day. My temper is terrible. I even get irritated easily by my kids and mother in law. I was stressed because I don't know WHERE AND HOW TO START these goals of mine. I wanted to be succesful in just one snap.

Hubby told me I am losing my temper, it might be because of hormones. Then I realized I am 2 days delayed. It never happens unless I am pregnant! I feel so dumb... And I think I am. Not dumb but pregnant? OMG! A lot of questions popped on my mind. What about my plans? How about the Kids. We are beginning to spend more quality time and a little less sleep with each other because my youngest turned one and now I am going to have another baby? Oh no!

But babies planned or unplanned are blessings. I have not tried pregnancy test yet but I am quite sure that I really am pregnant. I don't know what God's plan to us and whatever it is, I will just follow. I just hope and pray that my baby grows normal and healthy. And may God guide me to be the best mother to my kids. Maybe God wanted me not to focus on myself only. HE noticed how selfish I can become. I don't know.... But thank you Lord for ANOTHER BLESSING..

When I was still working, I always miss the kids (me and my hubby only see them during weekends). My time during weekdays were spent in the four corners of the cubicle. Reading and or sleeping is one way spending my free time (during lunchbreaks), that is if I have no deadlines to meet. As I read, I bump into one of Bo Sanchez writings. He said that I should keep a journal of my Joylist. The stuff that gives me Joy everyday.


Of course, the first on the list was spending quality time with my Kids. As all mothers wanted to be with their children 24 hours a day. To be able to teach, guide, play and serve them. After leaving work to be a full time mother of two, my kids now have all my time twenty four hours a day.


For almost four months of being a SAHM, I always wanted to be a perfect mother to be able to raise perfect children. To teach and guide them to be a God-fearing and succesful person as they grow up. That is what mothers wanted. Right? But a perfect mother is not being perfect at all. I have come to realize raising a child is the toughest responsibility more than anything. Being a mother is learning and teaching at the same time rewarded by an innocent smile of my babies.

This Joylist of mine was written in my journal almost a year ago while I am still working and as I noticed today while reading it that working in a corporate world was not included. Let me share with you my simple joylist.

1. spend quality time with kids.
2. a date with hubby
3. prepare delicious deserts
4. reading
5. watching a movie
6. a date with my highschool friends
7. having a foot massage.
8. grocery and shopping.

I think I need to write my updated version of my joylist one of these days. What about you? What are your Joylists?

I received an award from Dee. I was offline for more than a week and it's so nice to know that someone remembered to give me an award. Thank you Dee and I am looking forward to a perfect blend of friendship with you...

Thanks to blogging that I am meeting a lot of friends online. Being a stay at home mom sometimes keeps me locked in the four corners of our home forgetting about the time that passes while enjoying hectic schedules with the kids. Online friends helps balanced my everyday life.

And I am giving this award to friends who remembers to visits me: Eden, Abie, Icyents, Lizzie and Dana. Let's have a cup of tea!!

As I mentioned on my previous post regarding nego-skwela livelihood training schedules. I will be posting their recent schedule here in my blog for those who wants to learn and be trained specially those stay at home mothers. How I wish I could one day join one of their training. A couple of months more I think when my youngest is big enough to travel. If you're interested, click here.

If ever you attended one of nego-skwela training or you can't download the file please leave a comment.

Online Business is very popular nowadays that almost everyone is connected to the internet. And being a stay at home mother, I also wanted to try online business to be able to earn while at home. My problem is.. what kind of business should I do online? I have a lot of ideas in my mind like food, clothing or services. But the things that pops on my mind needs a lot of time. It won't work for me because I have two kids to take care of.

As I mentioned in my previous post, we are renovating a vacant lot, and my father in law partnered with his friend to put up a Bamboo Crafts Store. This gave me an idea to create an online store of Bamboo Crafts. This venture is keeping me busy for a couple of days. I will be launching the Tiaong Bamboo Crafts online Store. Watch out for it! Hope I get orders.....

God is so good all the time. Once he closes the door, he made sure that a window will open. When hubby and I are working three hours away from our Kids, we could not even save money for our family. The fact that two of us are working, away from our home and children, our expenses are also high. Most of the time, we are so stressed because of work deadlines, homesickness(we only see our children on weekends) and a tedious hours of travel.

Until I decided to quit my job to personally take care of the children to ensure best care and to get out of a stressful living that hubby decided to put up a business. Our goal is to live a happy life and spend most of our quality time with the kids while working at home. Hubby started renovating a vacant lot at the back of our house along the highway. He put up a car wash business using his salary and a loan from the bank. The car wash area will have a free wi-fi zone, a motorcycle and refrigeration repair and a computer shop. As of now, the car wash and motorcyle repair is operational. We hope and prayed that this venture for our family will succeed not only for us but to the people around who supported us along the way.

Our Car Wash Business is loated at Barangay Uno, Tiaong, Quezon Province. For those travellers who happens to be in Southern Luzon can drop by at Artoo's Car Wash. See you around....