I am looking into buying an additional set of memory cards for my laptop. Although it’s still very reliable, I can’t help but want faster processing time especially with all the multi-tasking I’ve been doing. Ramil, on the otherhand, is actually selling his laptop. He’s always been particular with video cards because of the games he’d like to play on his laptop and after seeing snew, excellent laptops in the market, he’s also thinking of upgrading by selling his and buying a new one. I jokingly told him not to sell his laptop and give it to Mateo instead

My dad will be abe to go home this early February. Finally, after so much anticipation late last year. He was actually supposed to be with us for Christmas and New Year but his company wasn’t able to find a replacement for him. He’s very excited to see Mateo while my sister is very excited to get her new laptop. We’re also hoping he was able to get the DSLR I mentioned. His current ship’s ports include Japan and US so there are a lot of good buys. He jokingly told me he’ll buy Hydroxycut upon learning that I am on a quest to lose weight. He told me to plan a trip for us this summer and I’m excited to bring Mateo again to the beach. We’re all excited for him to come home and hopefully, if things go according to his plan, he won’t have to work as a seaman anymore.

This year is a very big year for us. I just feel that there will be a lot of changes for our family this year. Ramil and I started the year with some ‘dietary changes’. Haha! I’ve coerced him into going into some kind of diet. I plan to go back to my weight before I got pregnant with Mateo because we hope circumstances would fall into place and we’d be able to try for another baby late this year. I told Ramil that it’s my requirement before I get pregnant again. I need to prove to myself that I can get my old weight back without using a fat burner. So my game plan is to stay away from rice, bread, pasta, and sugar. Rice, bread, and pasta, I can handle fine. Although I love bread and pasta, I easily steer clear of them most of the time. However, I’ve always been a person whose meal will not be complete without dessert! In fact, I could eat dessert all through out a meal. I used to cut down on all other food except dessert. I used to willingly not eat other food just so I could eat more dessert.

I’m successful in following the diet most of the time. Hehe! Weekends and special occasions are exemptions so I was still able to enjoy Mateo’s birthday cake last week. I find myself still trying to follow the diet plan even during weekends and special occasions though, except for the dessert part. I’m still around 5 lbs. away from my pre-pregnancy weight of 115 lbs but I’m extending it a bit more and trying to go down to 112 lbs. Once I reach that weight, that’s one item off my list of ‘things to accomplish so we can have another baby’.

Once October starts rolling in, our small family spends a lot in the next six months. October 25 is my birthday, December 17 is our wedding anniversary, December 25 is Christmas, January 15 is Mateo’s birthday, March 7 is our bf-gf anniversary, and April 24 is Ramil’s birthday. It’s the most expensive six months for us. Good thing I’m not so hung up on gifts anymore. A book, DVDs, a small accessory, even fashion jewelry sets would be okay for me. It’s our bf-gf anniversary in two months and I told Ramil that he could give me some jewelry, haha! Seriuosly though, the ones at HolstedJewelers.com look so real and classy that I wouldn’t mind getting them as gifts. I might even buy a few myself.

It was our first time to spend Christmas eve in our own house. Since my dad was not able to go home for the holidays, Ramil and I just asked my family and his family to visit us. On the 24th, my family came and spent the night in our house while Ramil’s parents visited us on the 25th.

The three of us attended mass at 8:30 p.m. and leaving for the church, we took some pictures of ourselves in front of the tree. Unfortunately, there was no one else with us at the time and Ramil and I were too lazy to set the timer on the camera so we were left without a complete family picture

Mateo got a lot for Christmas, most of them toys. After fixing all his new toys together with his old ones, I told Ramil that we are not buying any toys anymore. We ended up buying extra plastic containers to put his new toys in. We, however, didn’t even have gifts for each other. Haha! We opted to buy DVDs and do some shameless DVD marathon during the Christmas break. Of course, it would have been nice if we could afford something like a Westgate vacation but we don’t really mind.

Mateo loves imitating everything he sees so you could just imagine how it is whenever he watches TV. I am now personally experiencing the bad effects of watching TV whenever we’d accidentally let him watch something that’s not appropriate for him.

The other day, Spiderman 3 was on HBO and we let him watch some parts of it, particularly those parts where Spiderman is being the usual superhero. He loves watching superheroes on TV and he loves doing superhero poses like this:

It’s one of the reasons why my mom gave him a Spiderman costume as one of her Christmas gifts for Mateo. Mateo loved the costume and would sometimes request that the face mask be put on him. He even loves looking at himself in the mirror whenever he has the costume on.

Of course, it wouldn’t be complete without the classic Spiderman pose.

My husband and I are bad teachers. Well, considering that I was called a ‘delinkwente’ back in high school then I might have improved a lot. Still, despite the many times that we promised not to cram, we always end up cramming anyway. It’s fortunate that he can teach any science topic from linear motion to taxonomy without reviewing anything. Now we have just a day left until classes resume and here we are, still cramming. I guess some things are hard to change.

Ramil and I bought a lot of DVDs a few weeks ago, mostly several seasons of some TV series. Hence, our days would usually begin with Mateo waking up around 7 am. He’d then prance around the bed trying to kiss us into waking up. If he’s not successful, he’d go down the bed and try to play with whatever thing he can put his hands on. When he gets tired of entertaining himself, he’d climb our bed again and this time he’d be more persistent in his attempts to wake us up. Ramil and I would take turns hugging and kissing him then we’d ask him to fix his bed before we go out of the bedroom. After breakfast, we’d turn on the TV and watch episode after episode, sometimes while playing with Mateo on the carpet. We’d take a break for lunch and to put Mateo to sleep and then its back to our DVD marathon. Unless we feel like going somewhere or walking with Mateo outside, the marathon continues until it’s time for dinner. After dinner, we put Mateo to sleep and then go back to watching episodes until around 1 or 2 am.

Yes, we’re being couch potatoes. I don’t even want to imagine how it’s going to be like if we have a pop up tv in our bedroom. We justify our laziness to the fact that we never get to do recreational things like this once school starts again. We haven’t even finished half of our DVD loot, if only our break is two weeks longer

We spent most of our Christmas break at home. Ramil and I are self-proclaimed homebodies and we love lounging around the house. We’d be content with occasional outings or short trips to the supermarket or the mall.

Yesterday, we took down our  Christmas tree and did some cleaning around the house. Ramil and I got to talking about the possibility of buying the house we’re renting now from the owner. The owner has already migrated to Canada and we’re hoping she’ll be agreeable to a rent-to-own scheme. Although we’d still prefer to build our own wherein we get to dictate the smallest details of the house like door knobs and kitchen sinks, right now this is the closest thing we’d get to having our own house. We can always do renovations in the far, far future anyway.