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My two younger children anticipate opening of their Christmas gifts every year even if they already know what the gifts are. Yes, they choose the toys they like to get for Christmas, as I’ve already written here.

They are getting a big Lego bricks bucket, toy animals in the tree house, a big 2010 Formula 1 car and some super hero gifts for kids among others.

No surprises eh? I don’t know why but our children grew up not believing in Santa Claus at the same time, they grew up singing “Happy Birthday Jesus” during Noche Buena.

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Yey! It’s vacation time for the children and I which means I don’t need to wake up at the ungodly hour of 4am to cook for packed lunch. Although the children wanted to wake up much much earlier than 4am to go to the dawn masses, I doubt they’d even have the strength to open their eyes to do that. They’ve been sleeping later than usual since Thursday night.

We plan to visit my parents during this Christmas break and I’m sure a lot of families have plans to visit their families who are away from them. I got the hubby a discount voucher from an online seller for some car maintenance in anticipation of the travel we will do and I’m sure, people are gearing up to do motor home repairs, if they have not done that yet.

I’m just thankful we don’t have snows on the roads here so traveling is easy. But we have traffic, traffic and more traffic everywhere which is even worse, I think.

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I don’t know what it is with ube cake but my two younger children absolutely love it:

They like ube ice cream too by the way.

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The season of gift-giving is finally here and I haven’t bought a single gift for giving yet. I mean, I have, for my children but to those outside my nuclear family, there’s none yet. Not even grocery stuff for my parents, maybe new books for my niece and pull up bars for my brother who wants to have a bigger bod.

These days I give gifts that are not too expensive but can be appreciated. Like baked goodies which I personally bake. These can be eaten and best of all, I labored to make these myself.

So there. Frankly, I don’t understand why people call me frugal because I give these things as gifts.

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“How time flies” may be an old cliche but for us parents, this is something that holds true. I may have to wish for time to “take it’s time” because I want to savor special moments with my children while they are still young. That would be wishful thinking of course.

This month is the month a lot of children will have their First Communion and for us parents, it is one of the signs that the children are on their way to becoming more mature in different aspects of their life.

Has it almost been a year when our only son, wearing a white crisp long-sleeved polo and perfectly ironed black pants walked to the altar and received his first communion?

He was happy that day and so were we. He did look a bit odd in the group photo because almost everyone was wearing black ties while he had one with a maroon hue. I had to say no then to his request that we get a colored o

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This is my Filipino version of Cajun Chicken Pasta that I got from The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond‘s blog. Now, If you don’t know who she is, quick! do click the link to her name and believe me, you WILL spend hours reading her blog.

I know, my pasta pales in comparison with hers, LOL, but hey, the kids got clean plates and even asked for seconds. I used Italian seasoning (combination of different herbs) instead of Cajun seasoning which I’m not sure can be found in the supermarkets. I must look harder next time. We have had this several times since I first tried to cook it.

Now excuse me while I go looking for hot tub covers online 🙂

Ingredients here just in case.

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