Dear Blogger Friends,
Love,
Dimple and Arlene
To your hOme from My Home
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Monthly Archives: December 2007
The Fives
Hailey tagged me with this. Thanks a lot!
5 Things Found In My Bag
- keys
- wallets
- lotion
- ballpen
- lipsticks
5 Things Found In My Wallet
- Cash (bills
- coins
- cards
- pictures
5 Things Found In My Room
- bed
- picture frames
- toy stuff
- computer
- plastic box
5 Things I’ve Always Wanted To Do
- Travel
- Shopping for groceries/shoes
- blogging
- study nursing
- more time for myself
5 Things I’m Currently Into
- pro-blogging
- managing the family
- scrapbooking
- working for my kids
- planning menu for christmas eve and new year;s eve
5 People to Tag for This Meme
Unforgetable Walk
I am blogging about this just for the record because it is the first time that happened after a long long time.
My mom, me, and my daughter went out to the city to windowshop. We don’t have money but we just want to stretch our legs after being just at home for the past days. We tried to avoid the crowd so we walk passed the small streets and we walk very very slow — for the sake of my mom. We walked single file — me ahead, mom next, then dimple at the end. Dimple would like to walk ahead of me or beside me but i told her to walk behind my mom incase my mom would feel dizzy and will fall. We were so good in avoiding the crowd til we reach the market area. We enjoyed checking the relief goods thinking that we would come back one day to buy some for ourselves. Stuff from Japan and Korea were still good especially the tshirts and blouses. Ohhh I really want to pick something for myself but I told myself, maybe this is not yet the right time. Hopefully January will be better.
Mom walks so slow. Seeing her walking that speed aches my heart. It made me realize how her sickness made her so weak. We met some friends along the way and she was so happy to see one that is 78 years old. I met some aunties and some friends, too and it is a joy to exchange real smiles with them.
Ohhhh how i wish life is just so simply uncomplicated, but it is not like that for now.
Anyway, i really hope for a better year ahead!
Life As it Should Be with Zero Coca-Cola
While growing up, I am always told that sodas have harmful effects in our body. But I can’t help it once in a while but drink Coke. Am not a Coke addict but I love its taste. It’s many years I have stopped drinking it when there is chance of drinking it for health reasons.
Now there’s good news for all of us. There is now an available Zero Sugar Coke. It is the healthy version of coke that is good for us anytime in our life. Life at times sucks without Coke especially if you are addicted to it and you have low tolerance for sugar, but that will be over now with Real Taste Coca-Cola.
By the way, there is also a good news for creative artists!
- There is a chance for you to direct your own clip showing Coke Zero campaign. Coke has found some old b/w film clips that you, as the director, can manipulate by using an easy voice recorder. You can write “the conversation” to your own clip and say what ever you want. Afterwards your movie competes with other movies to be the highest rated. Check more details here.
Because of this zero sugar? Am sure am gonna love coke now! 
Preggy Photos
One of the things I missed in this life is having a photo when I was pregnant. Have had babies for two times but I dunno why I never had a single picture of myself. During my first pregnancy, I could just have easily go to the photo center, but I dunno why I haven’t thought of that when all I did was sit, read, cross-stitched, and sleep at home.
The second pregnancy could have been nice, too because I already have a husband. But it was not thought of. Guess my passion for photography has stopped during those times because it all came back when the baby was out of the tummy. hahaha
Now that am alone again, I can’t help to think that if ever I get pregnant again — wil surely have a photo of myself. I wonder what would I look like being pregnant at 45.
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Christmas Her Way
Author: Nancy Canwell. She learned a lesson from her 3 year old daughter – one that most of us have a hard time remembering at Christmas.
Tonight I pulled out our family’s photo album to remember Christmas past. The pictures of Christmas 1996 when our daughter was three years old are priceless to me. There she is plahing a wise man in our church’s Nativity play. Across the page are pictures of her with little friends singing carols at a retirement home and watching our town’s light parade. In others she’s enjoying the many activities I’d planned for our family that season. Yet the picture that means the most to me is the one of her standing by our Christmas tree, holding bags of food. The picture means so much because it represents Christina’s plan for that Christmas, not mine.
That year, as I was cleaning in a back room of our house, I realized that for a three-year-old she was being much too quiet. When I walked into the kitchen I saw why. She’d gotten into the pantry and was busily filling brown papers bags with food.
“Christina, what are you doing?” I asked.
“I want to give hungry people food for Christmas!” she declared.
My heart was touched. She was reminding me of what really mattered at Christmas. It was not just about decorating, baking, shopping, or all the events. It was about sharing.
It would have been so easy to let that moment pass by saying, “Hone, I don’t have time for this right now, ” or “I need these things for our own meals.” But I knew I couldn’t. Now both our hands were in the pantry as I let her choose what to give.
On Christmas Eve my husband drove us around town because Christina wanted to chose which houses to leave the bags at. “That house!” she said, pointing to one that looked run-down. “That house has kids,” she said of another with toys in the yard. So we wouldn’t get caught, I ran the bags to the porches while Christina watched from the car with glee.
On the way home she imagine how excited people would be when they awakened Christmas morning to find food on their doorstep. I wasn’t so sure. Would people take food left by strangers? But when I realized that’s not what really mattered. What mattered was that we’d shared. What mattered was that our daughter had celebrated Christmas her way.
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I will end the copying here and end the story this way. I feel this is a touching story and I post it here to share. Such a lovely child with a great Christmas thought.
Another Long Week-end!
Another long week-end starts today because Monday next week will be sandwiched with Sunday and Christmas day. I think it is great — I then have ample time to spend online working. hehehe
Am so excited today! Actually, I should not have opened some moolah sites but I can’t help it and heyyy got 3 opportunities waiting in line. I will do it later tonight or after 6 pm and am crossing my fingers that it will still be there. Ohhh no God, please let it stay in place til I can grab it.
You might be wondering why am not grabbing them at this moment and write about it — no, i just can’t because I consider problogging as “working” and I should not work on Sabbath. It’s my religious belief and that’s just the way it is. So i hopeee when I check it later tonight at 6 — will grab it fast and work on it.
Hmmm 3 days before Christmas? I am sure almost everyone is excited about it. I know too that their may be some who are not as excited as everyone. Let us not forget to pray those who are not feeling well for the holidays, and those who have no food for their empty and cold tummies on Christmas night, and even those who have no warm clothes to warm them on Christmas nights.
I still don’t have plans for Christmas day but surely I will be at home.