1. Santa does not put presents under the tree, or put them out in the open anywhere else until everyone has gone to sleep on Christmas Eve. Santa ONLY comes when everyone is asleep on Christmas night. I.E. Santa does not put gifts under the tree a week before Christmas.
2. Santa addresses [...]
There’s a rhyme I remember from growing up that went like this:
I’ve never seen a purple cow
and never hope to see one,
but if I may and if I might,
I’d rather see than be one.
I remember going to the annual county fair one time as a child and seeing a purple cow, and my mother pointing [...]
Jil Wrinkle and his fiance, Epril, invited us to join them on a trip to Agutayan Island, off Jasaan, Misamis Oriental. On July 27, 2008, Marissa and I joined them, along with another expat American Michael Bird, and his wife.
The theory was that someone we knew from Jasaan had a fishing boat that would ferry [...]
On July 27, 2008, Marissa and I attended the wedding of Cherry Ann Udasco and Carlos Nassaire.
Man, am I glad no one got a photo of me crying at my own wedding, and by saying that I am not admitting that I did.
Carlos had just arrived back in The Philippines after working in Vancouver, Canada, [...]
This post is pretty much just for family.
I can’t see that there would be many people that would watch 16 minutes or so of videos of a baby unless they are related to him.
I am very fortunate to have such a healthy, playful and happy baby. I am also fortunate to have a large extended [...]
A few days before July 17, 2008, Marissa advised me that there was a Mother Club Rotary Event in “Pine Hills, Bukidnon”. I tried to look the place up on the Internet and couldn’t find anything. I remember the last time I went to Malaybalay and Valencia that there was some kind of [...]
Catholic christening of Race, and the reception that followed, photo gallery.
I am not a catholic, having been raised Methodist, a protestant, but having married a catholic Filipina, and having decided to live for at least the next few years in The Philippines, and raise my son as a filipino, to inoculate in him the values [...]
Papa entered a greased pig contest last week and won. Ten men were in the contest and they were all blindfolded. The pig was greased to make him hard to catch.
This is a hybrid pig. A normal piglet (”bactin” in Visayan) this size would be worth 500 pesos (about $11.00 USD), but [...]
“Lechon” means roasted, and “baboy” is a pig, Tagalog.
Marissa bought the pig from some friends who live in Lumbia, near the Cagayan de Oro Airport. The price was 100 pesos per kilo, or 5500 pesos for the above pig, which was taken to my house live on Thursday, two days before he was prepared [...]
So, I have to give in.
Race is a good kid, he only cries when he is hungry…
Needs to be changed…
Or if he’s sleepy..
Of course, sometimes he can’t sleep because of all the distractions…
Sometimes the distractions come from Mama…
Sometimes the distractions are just toys, like super-sized milk bottles…
Sometimes it’s Mama that distracts him…
Sometimes he just distracts [...]