FLOWERS

Every year at November 1 we always visit our resting relatives at our province Bataan. Its been a tradition for us to bring food and always try to bring every member of the family. It only started when we moved the remains of our resting relatives to a private cemetery. When we were still at the public cemetery my aunt and I are the only ones spending the night there sometimes my mom will be there too. As a kid I liked to climb the towering tombs there and make balls out of melting candles and buy palamig outside the church and try to find my way back like in a maze, every year that was what I have been expecting every time. Now, every year I'm excited to make flower arrangements, we could buy beautifully arranged flowers but it has a different feeling when you're the one who made it. I personally feel its my way of sending them my love besides praying and lighting candles. I have always liked putting flowers from our own garden it feels like there's lots of love.hehe someday I'll be able to grow pretty flowers and that's what we'll use but for now those little leaves and humble flowers that is available in our garden are adding a little love. I know my flowers are not the most beautiful but im really proud of it..hehe

HERE ARE SOME OF THE FLOWERS I'VE ARRANGED. i cant seem to find the pictures of the ones i made before.

this one's from 2006. the violet orchid on top is from our garden. it smells great too!

Halloween special

Happy Halloween!!

I baked some sweets for my dear princesses, I was kinda hoping they'll gobble-up my muffins but they're more excited to have candies which we don't have so their trick or treat party seems to be incomplete. Oh well, how will my baking ever surpass the goodness of candies and anyways "trick or treats" are supposedly candy mania for kids.

BUT their compliments like "tita, ang galling mu mag-bake!" and "tita sarap mu mag-bake ah! And the best, "pwede ka ng magbake katulad ni Kim Sam Soon" are enough for me to bake again for them. I have to learn frosting and decorating its what they look for now, they are used to my baking and I've heard them say these every time so when they saw that my cake and muffins have something extra they have something extra to say too! I love seeing them happy and I love to hear them say they love me or what I do, maybe its because they are honest and very expressive although most of the time their criticisms are very cruel for kids to say, its ok for me because I know they also hear those words from me, so im a bad tita!!hehe

THE CHOC CAKE AND MUMMY MUFFINS!

DIRTY CAKE..

GREEN PUNCH..

GRAVEYARD MUFFINS

the ideas are of course from the internet!!hehe
there's more photos at my mutiply!

I realized something as I am writing this post, when I started thinking about putting this Halloween thing together I've been unstoppable. When I have to go to the grocery which I wont do if there would be no car or a companion. I still went, although I dragged Cassie with me its something I really wont do. I felt a little sense of giving up during the time I was decorating them because of the feeling that it wont be appreciated and that no one wants to celebrate it(except my nieces) I still finished it. This is a new thing for me because whenever I feel those things I'll stop. It's a good thing, so I have to keep it up. I know its my nieces that's changing me, being able to spend this long time with them I get to know them better and we got closer to each other. I hope by the time I got a job I'll still be able to be with them every time we have to celebrate something. I hope our Christmas will be better.