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A simple person and a single mom.
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My mom's 1st birthday without her to celebrate last September 17. Also advance celebration of my sister's birthday Lean last September 20 and mine for tomorrow 25. We always celebrate our birthdays on our mom's birth date to save. One celebration for the 3 of us. Also one of the reason is my mom has the most friends and relatives to invite than us. Hehehe
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For more or less 15 years of separation at long last we seen each other again just because our mom died. I don't know when we will see each other again. I hope very soon.
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Just wanna share with you Zoe's photography using her new doll as the model. I love how creative she is especially the fourth picture. It looks like the doll is taking a selfie.
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Before my sister and her son went back to New Jersey we had a beautiful time in the beautiful beach of Boracay! A bonding time after the stress we had with our childhood friend Jo, our cousin Jenelyn, one of my cousin's daughter Cheska. We had a great time together. All day in the beach and more talk and fun in our unit at night time.
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Hello everyone! How are you guys? You all know our story especially about my mom. My sister and her son arrived last July 22 with my mother's urn and we become very busy. We send her off in her resting place last July 27. We have this 9 days prayer for her soul after her burial. After that we had our family bonding because me and my sister haven't seen each other for about 15 years. Our last vacation was in Boracay for 4 days and they went home to New Jersey last August 17. Now it's only me and Zoe in the house. I cried my heart out for a day after my sister and her son left. I miss my mom that I haven't seen for the past 3 years and will never see for life. 🥺 I miss my sister Lean and Xander too. I also miss you guys for this past month.
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It's already morning so it was yesterday Tuesday was Zoe's Recognition Program. The students with high honors and with honors with one parent or guardian are allowed to attend. For the first time Zoe meet some of her classmates. Me and Zoe while waiting for the program to start in the first photo. The second one is Zoe with her cousins. The 2013 babies. Third photo with her cousins we saw there and the forth the Fernandez clan. Then last one we went to have some snack with frappe we love.
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The sun is already setting as we are going for a 1 hour drive from the city to our town. The kids doesn't want to go home early as they're having fun playing in the mall. They will said it's not dark yet. My friend Joy is driving and us her 3 passengers. We went to the city to buy some things for the house for the preparation of my mom's wake. How's everyone and how it is here in noise? Any news? I'm so busy now. I'll see you around.
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Last Saturday we celebrated Lola Alice's 90th birthday. She's the last grandma we have from the the Fernandez clan. She's my mom's aunt. Wishing her more birthdays to come and good health. How's everyone? I'll be more and more busy as July approach. I will visit you guys from time to time. Miss you all.
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Hello my dearest noisemates. I'm so sorry haven't posted for awhile. My mind is blank and as I was trying to write at this moment I was looking at the screen for a long time 'cause I don't know what to write. So I'm just saying hi to everyone for now. Visit you guys every now and then.
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Last Friday we went to the city with my high school friend Joy. Her car needs to change oil and then we went to the city proper to buy some artificial flowers and decors, pillows and a beach umbrella. We also went to SM City because Zoe and Enzo wanted to play there but we can't find the play area they wanted to visit so Enzo played at the arcade. Hello everyone. So sorry for my absence. I miss hanging around here but I'm gonna be busy until August.
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I have a short story to tell. It happened last Tuesday. It is a market day in our town. After buying some fruits we went to this cute place for some frappe. Zoe ordered mango and mine is mocha frappe. We ordered fries too. We were setting in a long sit with three little tables. We're at the end side and a lady is sitting in the middle and a teenager in another end side. A moment later someone came with a bouquet of flowers and gave it to the lady who giggled as she accepted it. We looked at them with curiosity. The lady is kilig to the max and acting like a pabebe. Hahaha...And Zoe said "sana all". Hahaha...I shhhh her as she said it a little louder but I laughed in her reaction as she said those phrase.
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Yesterday me, my cousin and Zoe were cleaning and organizing one of the room. The smallest room in the house. We put my mom's clothes, shoes and bags. She has plenty of it here and some were sent by my sister from New Jersey as she stayed there for almost 3 years before she died last December. I can't use my mom's clothes and shoes as I'm a petite person. Hehehe as of the bags I'm not a fantastic of it like my sister. She buys bags when she's stressed. 3 more rooms to be cleaned and organized as I don't know how many will visit us from Manila and Kalibo for my mom's 4 days wake. Sorry if I'm not that active here. The sunset was 2 days ago. Have a great new week to all. God bless us all.
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A big pretty butterfly was roaming around the garden visiting the beautiful flowers of the Stone House Resort. Happy weekend everyone! I'll be busy now so I'll just visit you guys from time to time. Need to do some cleaning and organizing in the house and do some decorations for our Day Care Center. Be safe and God bless.
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How's everyone doing? Everything good here at noise? I am very busy at this moment that we had more than a month to sort things out especially my mom's belongings. We have to keep her belongings for a year before giving it away. That is one of the beliefs we had. I have to clean and prepare the house. Our Daycare Center also asked me to draw some things to put and decorate the center before the evaluation this coming July also. I don't really know where to start. Zoe enjoying the fishes at the Stone House Resort. Have a great Tuesday everyone!
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Zoe is enjoying again and this time it's in the Stone House Resort which is owned by our former mayor and there are lots of animals. We went to the little museum too. My aunt's gonna go this afternoon to the city and she decided to book a hotel there and buy some things tomorrow before her flight in the evening back to Manila. I didn't swim. Just watching them from our cottage.
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We have guests in the house until Wednesday. My aunt from Manila is visiting for her older brother but decided to stay in our house. She bring her other brother's wife and son from the city and then someone she knows arrived yesterday to stay here also until tita Reggie will go home. We supposedly cook dinner but decided to go out in a near "talabahan". Talaba is oyster. We just walk from the house to the talabahan. We were waiting for our order and I stole a shot.
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Recycling a recycled bottle. It is originally from a bottle of Emperador and other alcoholic drink that was cut and made into a candle bottle. I have bought so many after my mom died and I keep the candle burning until her 40 days. Then I cleaned it up and bought some diamond stickers and other stickers too. Zoe and I decorated those two as a sample and to use as a flower vase. I'm planning to do more and give to the people who will pray for my mom every night when her urn arrive this coming July as a simple token of gratitude. Mine is simple than what Zoe did. I think she's more creative than me. Sorry guys I'm so busy. My aunt will arrive anytime soon from Manila. She's going to stay in the house so I'm preparing and cleaning. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
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Good morning sunshine! I hope it will be sunny today. Need to wash some bedsheet, blanket and our clothes. My aunt will be here on Saturday to look after her big brother concerning about his health and she said she will staying with me and Zoe. Need to clean and organize the house. Hehehe... It's gonna be a busy day today. For my #ThrowbackThursday the second and third photos are actually from the video I took May 18, 2016 at the airport. One of my mom's arrival from her New Jersey vacation. Now we were waiting for her urn to arrive home this coming July. I really, really miss her. I'm still crying every now and then.
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This was taken during the last day of campaign period. We went to Datagan one of the baranggay in our town. We went there around 6 in the evening and had a chance to take some photos of the sunset on the way. I bring Zoe with us and she enjoyed the experience and she's really good in campaigning for her Tito Mc John. He's at the 4th spot in that baranggay and 2nd spot in our own baranggay. We went house to house that morning campaigning for my cousin. I hope next time he will make it to the top 8. We will do our best but even though he didn't make it at the 2nd time he will still continue his service to the people of our town. Good night everyone! It's almost midnight here. See you later. God bless everyone!
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Hello guys. How's everyone? I'm not feeling well and can't move on to what happened last May 9 election. Hehehe... My cousin didn't make it in the top 8 rank so we were so disappointed. He got the 9th position. Just 1 rank down. Even my sister can't believe it. She said next time she will go home just to campaign for our cousin. Hahaha... One of my tooth is a little sensitive too this past days so I have to visit a dentist. After that me and Zoe went to the mall to have a snack. She ordered fries, cheese stick and fish ball with blueberry frappe which she really likes and after that we went to the grocery. I'm also having a problem with the person who's doing my mom's tomb. A very stressful week.
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Just done my part as a good citizen. Praying for a peaceful election and that whoever wins will serve the people and our country rightfully. I hope my cousin will win too. God bless the Philippines.
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I have been busy for two days campaigning for my cousin Mc John the one in a pink polo. The first photo courtesy of my cousin MJ. We went to some far away areas of our town to campaign with some of my cousins to show our support. Here's some of our photos and beautiful mountain views of our town. Third photo with my cousin's. The one at the center is Mary Pet her brother died July last year with colon cancer, me holding the camera and my mom died December last year with stomach cancer and the last one is May Joy and her mom died February this year with heart disease. My sister just noticed it when she saw our photos and we were actually talking about what happened to our love ones who died while we were at the back of the car for our destination. We had fun under the sun climbing some areas to reach the other houses of the indigenous people of our town. Tomorrow will be the judgement day. We will go and vote for our future. Who ever wins I hope they will serve the people and our country rightfully. God bless us all.
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Meet my family. I made this when I was still working in Quezon City. My father died when I was in my 6th grade. My mom became a single mom who strive to give our needs and now she's reunited with my father. Just saw this when I was cleaning the side table with some of our albums under it. Those were the days when my hair is still long.
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From the beach we stopped by my friend's relatives in Oton Iloilo and got to take photos of their different flowers. The property was big with so many indian mangoes and other fruits too. I got some avocados and indian mangoes when we went home. Here's some of the flowers I snap. Its a hibiscus flowers in different color and variety. Have a good day everyone. Busy here. Need to prepare things before my mom arrive. Very busy going to the cemetery and cleaning the garden. Love and peace!
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Such a wonderful morning to start with. Got this beautiful sky in our balcony. Got a good news. My sister and her son booked their tickets for July. They're coming together with our cousin's family. At long last my mom will be home soon. I just hope that everything will be okay. No new variant of Covid, lockdown or quarantine. We are hoping that everything will go as we planned. They only have a month of vacation here. Putting my mom at her resting place will be the closure for the bad things that happened to our family this past years. Second and third photos are from my mom's gallery.
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A child's happy place. Zoe, Sophie and Enzo loves to play in the mini playground of the resort. When not in the water they play especially at the slide. When we arrived there we were the only guest so it's like we rented the whole place. The owners are very kind and accommodating. They have a live band during Saturday. Unfortunately we arrived Friday but in the morning the band set up and rehearsed so we get to hear how they perform. It's consisted by the owner's family. The father at the keyboard, daughter the main vocalist, son vocalist and drum and the nephew in the guitar. We had so much fun although I didn't swim that much.
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Zoe's happy moments at the beach. When we arrived she was so excited to see the beach and wanted to swim already. She and her friends got into the water without having lunch because it was almost lunch time when we arrived and most of us didn't have breakfast as we left for the beach. They didn't want to go out when we called them to have lunch. We told them to eat first and go back to swim. Their break time is literally just to eat . They swim until night time. They got out the water around 7pm. Zoe loves to swim. Either at the beach or into the pool.
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You will see more of our photos this coming days during our overnight camping at the beach. Got so many to share but limited time to be here. The kids really enjoyed the camping and swimming. They're planning to go back for 2 nights stay on July and I said okay. But then I realized that it's the month where my sister and her son will arrive with my mom's ashes. We will have 4 days wake then we will send her off to her resting place. And then we have this "pa siam" a 9 days prayer for her soul. I don't think we can go back there. Not this time but someday we will.
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Good morning from the beach of San Joaquin Iloilo. We sleep in the tent last night and some of us on an open cottage. It's more fresh to sleep outside because of the breeze but it has a little bit of mosquitoes outside. The kids sleep well because they are so tired from yesterday's swimming. They swim as soon as we arrived at the place.
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My high school friend Joy asked as to join them for an outing in the beach. We went to Facto's Dream Beach Resort. The children really enjoys the water and don't want to leave even to eat.
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