Let's Start Them Green !!!

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What is the first sense that engages you when you are in a supermarket or on a page? Sense of sight, right? Look at the picture above. Aren't your eyes drawn to it? If I were to buy a formula for my kid, I will be drawn to the shelf that holds these items because of the colors and the design that seem to beckon at me and beg me to please give it a try. The first thing that catches my eyes is the word ORGANIC. What can be healthier than that! From there I will be taken to my examination mode to check what really is inside this attractive can. As a mom who've had milk-drinking-tots myself, healthy qualities in a product is foremost in my choice. Bright Beginnings formulas do not contain antibiotics, growth hormones or pesticides that can potentially harm babies or kids - a great plus for any mother's list of requirements, will you agree? And have no fear, its nutritional contents have been certified under USDA regulations.
Accessibility and availability is another thing to consider. Because it is available online, Bright Beginnings available at diapers.com , a customer friendly site where you can find all you need to know about the product, one can have access to it 24/7. One will have no fear of running out of formula anymore. And one more thing - it is reasonably priced. A smart choice, yeah?

Merienda

A couple friend took a vacation in the Motherland and brought back some pastries as pasalubong and childhood memories instantly come flashing back. These pictured items are usually served for merienda (snack or tea time)especially after arriving home from school. I remember very well that image of pieces of galletas, or pilipit, or broas on a saucer and a bottle of orange juice (usually artificially flavored) on the side waiting for me and my cousins every week day that there was school. My auntie saw to it that we had those first before we could rush to the tracks for our afternoon games with playmates.
Aaaahhhhh...... memories!!!

Retired?... Retiring?.. Please read on...

STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART


(A friend e-mailed this to me...)

I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avant garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60s & 70s, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love...I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.

They, too, will get old.

I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not  break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being  imperfect.


I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.


So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore.
I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever,
but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel  like it).

MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART!

 

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY, JACOB!!!

Priceless Moment

Gloria and William
Larry and Fina Ed and Princess
A lunch at Chinatown (can you see it from the plates?) to celebrate Larry's birthday.

Through His Youthful Eyes

Our second son and his family always take advantage of their break from work to travel wherever they thought their two young sons will learn from. The last one they shot three birds with one stone, so to speak, by driving along the West Coast from California through Oregon to Washington to see the sights, visit a friend from high school, and re-connect with relatives on his dad's side.
When they reached Oregon, they decided to take the road closest to the ocean. My daughter-in-law called me just to tell me how their 4-year-old son was seeing and enjoying the view. When she asked him why he was so quiet, my grandson told her:
"Mommy, look! It is like a coloring book!"
pointing to the trees and flowers and ocean and everything around.
Isn't that the highest form of appreciation for the beauty of nature around us?