moments of colours

    Moms are blessings!

    We call our mothers with different names: Mama, Mommy, Mom, Momsie, Moykie, etc. and other terms of endearment. No matter what we call her, aren’t you glad they’re there?

    Yesterday, was our mom’s birthday. We fondly call her “Inay”. She just turned 76. To celebrate her special day, besides the phone greetings from her children, children-in-law and grandchildren and some text messages as well, we had the following for dinner: Max’s fried chicken, her favorite “lumpiang ubod” and coleslow, “pansit” from the neighbor (who also celebrated her birthday yesterday  :razz: ), rice and H2O without the rocks!  :wink:Â

    Its a great feeling to see her smile, with her silver gray hair. She had met many of lifes’ ups and downs with her strong faith in God, a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary (who’s a terrific Mom to us and the world!)  and her love for her family. She’s still feeling the loss of her lifetime partner, but we know she’s coping. Through her examples and words of wisdom, she opens our eyes and hearts to welcome life and accept it the way it is…

    If your mom lives with you, give her a hug and/or a kiss. Tell her “I love you” and how much she is a blessing in your life. If she’s far, why not give her a call or send her a text message… Hope you get to feel the same way I had yesterday, seeing her smile.  :wink:Â

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Do you like vegetables?

    Well, some do… some don’t. For those who don’t, they say they dont’ like some veggies because of the ‘gooey stuff’ felt in their mouth. For those who do, well, there are lots of benefits to the body and the mind as well.

    At home, we happen to have a small space at the backyard where we can tend to some plants (and some animals too!). There are calamansi, tomatoes, okras and sayote. Its my first time to tend to a sayote plant! Actually it was planted by my father and I just continued looking after it.

    At first, I thought it would grow to  just a few inches up. But as days and months passed by, the vines thickened and climbed up to the second floor of the storeroom, up to where we use to dry our laundry. From a few mature pieces of sayote, planted, what came out have become a shade of green blanket over the entire laundry area!!

    I began to feel the excitement of a weekend farmer as I would tend to them only on weekends due to my work. I observed during the first few months that sayote plants are low maintenance; that I would just have to cut the yellowing ang dried leaves to care for it. Well that’s what I thought!

    Then came the first fruit. I got one big fruit one day sticking out like an incandescent bulb. Since the fruit was also green, I did’nt notice that there were other fruits getting bigger as the first one. After several days, portion by portion, little yellow flowers started to come out at the tip of each somewhat sticky fine vine. Small sayote fruits came out increasing in size, day by day.

    After the first harvest of one, two, three pieces, since last month, I’ve been harvesting kilos of the sayote fruit for our own family consumption whenever we want to and for sharing with neighbors, relatives and friends.

    Not eating veggies? You’re missing lots of vitamins and minerals for your body. Eating vegetables and also tending to it from seedling to fruit really gives a lot of benefits — not only to the body, but also to our mind and heart, especially when we share our blessings.  :wink:Â

whew! “-ber” months are here again! time to plan for Christmas  :grin: !! … but it would be different starting this year.. The family would be missing one important person…   :sad: We should be happy for him that he is in the loving arms of God now… no more pain….  :cry: haaaaay… gotta move on…. I know, in spirit and in our hearts, he would always be there…. love you, Itay…Â

it’s three o’clock in the morning… Hmmm… What should we be thankful for today? Well, first of all, Thank you Lord for a new day. A new day brings lots of opportunities for sharing our life and love with family and friends, old and new acquaintances… We may have lots of things planned everyday, but it doesn’t take much time to smile and give thanks to those we meet. What a good way to start a day!!  :wink:Â

…buzzzzz…. still having that mixed feeling of fear and adventure being new to blogging… i want to share my thoughts & ideas about things under the sun… it’s a real ‘hello world’ for me… come, share with my journey ….buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

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