--=Ana's Cyber Retreat=-

My future brother in law is flying to the Philippines right now. Wow! He will finally get to be with his soul mate; the one he's been searching for a long time. He waited for her his whole life and now a new day has come. His awaited moment finally arrived that he will get to live sharing his life with his dear wife. My sister will have a family of her own. How neat and I like it. Anyway, I hope my soon to be brother in law will arrive safely, so nothing will go wrong. I can't wait for his return already, so I can see the videos...LOL.

We took our baby Hannah to her Pediatrician today for her well visit and a few shots that she is due for. A good thing she took it just fine though she had to cry at first. My! She has grown so much already. She is 25 and a half inches long, and the doctor said, she is "tall". So, she will probably be tall-she might take after the tall relatives. She is 15 lbs. and some ounces now-it is the middle of the road weight, which is healthy enough. She is doing fine for sure. Anyway, the poor little one had to go all over the place with mom. We also had to stop somewhere else looking for a particular part for our damaged sliding glass door, but ugh! We still didn't find the part we are looking for. We had to go back over there twice-such a long way from home. That made my husband irritated going back and forth for nothing; especially when the sales rep-wasn't very helpful to him carrying on with a nonchalant attitude. And with the high rocketing gas prices, it adds up to the equation. It also kills my husband to see the high sky gas prices. It makes him wonder how the gas companies can just get away with setting the high prices like they do, making the not so fortunate people go broke in the process just spending money on gasoline.

I had a spooky dream early this morning that woke me up and had me spooked out. It was about my uncle who was brutally murdered riding a motorcycle making a circling motor cycle noise, then eventually it turned into a fast pacing running back and forth horse with someone riding it-horseback riding in the pouring rain and in the dark...ew...scary! It was as if something came up and making some news. I was hearing my mother's voice asking “who is that?” My mother was in their old house; she and her siblings grew up in-a big wooden house and I was situated close to our old house, too-just right across it with only a field in between separating us. We lived with only a walking distance from my grandparents’ house. So in my dream, I took a peek at who is riding the horse and all of a sudden the horse turned around running towards me. It scared me because to me it was my uncle who was murdered riding it, but what I saw as it got closer was my other uncle-the older brother. I heard my father say to my oldest uncle that "one of the men that ran from the authorities who murdered my uncle is finally caught"...LOL, I would be amazed. Ugh! It was such a dream indeed. It shook me up a bit-I don't like hauntings, it scares me and surely I couldn't go back to sleep after that. I felt horrible-shaken up. So here I made some posts to occupy me.

I can still remember that I talked about Mother's Day here a couple of years ago that my mother and I-back when I was younger-didn’t really get along so well. Well, maybe because I was such a rebellious child. I was also the oldest, so, that made it even tougher for me to manage growing up having to do a lot house chores. My! That was hard to be the oldest child. I think so because I was the one that everybody relied upon; I did the cooking, washing, and all the house chores if my parents were busy. And now that I am married, I have to do the same; I have responsibilities. Only this time everything I do is all for grownups to do. Life goes on indeed. As for Mother's Day, I never knew that it exists, not until I came to the U.S. I didn't hear about it being celebrated at home. Strange but I guess it is celebrated in the big cities where people are up to the latest and keeping up with the trends. Anyway, I used to write long about our holidays but now I am a little too busy anymore, so I settle with writing short posts. Ok, till here for now, it's getting late and so I've got to go. Happy Mother's Day everyone! Have a good one!

My sister Gemma will be getting married next month-she will be a June bride, too, like me. So, it is another new son in law for our parents to welcome coming from the U.S.A. Well, just like with her oldest sister (me) and older sister Nora; who followed my footstep and now ours...LOL. All the girls will be here if that is the case that when one does something everyone goes. It's fun though no matter what because I enjoy having my family close by. Gemma is the fourth child in the family who is going to be 22 years old this July. So, it's time for her to move on and have a family of her own too-like us here. Oh, I can't wait to see her wedding video...I am excited. I even picked out some of the music that will play as the soundtrack on their wedding video. Anyway, enough of my blabbing here for now, I'll save the rest for later.

Hi everyone! Happy spring!!! I hope you are having a fun time spring cleaning. As for me, I am not done yet; I am still working on planting more flowers in our yard all around our house. My! Spring is neat; I love that season as it brings out the beauty of nature once again and again. I feel refreshed too, just like being reborn you know. So isn't that amazing? Spring is great. I love it!

I can't chat very often with my family anymore since our daughter Tiana is going to school and I have a new baby. I am way too busy to be able to do so as I am always pre-occupied. Blog advertising is tying me up a bit, too, especially when I have trouble coming up with a story to tell or how to go about with the subject-opp. Ugh! It is hard; I just get a headache sometimes. My English is poor and that doesn't help at all. I often have to take some time just thinking about what I am going to say and doing so is definitely time consuming…irk! This is it, I should have been more adamant with taking ESL way before I had children. It's becoming a hassle. Anyway, I'll try hard to manage somehow, so I can help my family, too. I wish they can do what I am doing right now since they have access to a computer every day and spend lots of time online not doing a lot other than chit-chatting. In fact, there are times that I want to trade places with them, so that I can just hang out and have fun. Be on the computer and enjoy my time without any extra work...LOL, lazing around. Okay this is all. I just need to get another post done.

My youngest sister Rosalie shares a birthday month with my older brother Roberto. Her birthday is on April the 25th which is only a couple of weeks away. Anyway, I wish a happy birthday to my youngest sistah. I hope that she will always be in good health and have many, many more happy returns of the day. Boy! She has grown so much since I left home. She is now 13 years old. When I left she was only four and a half-almost five years old. Wow! It was so long ago already that I last saw them. Anyway, maybe one day I can travel back home. I am sure there is still hope for me. I just need to work on it a little harder. I will have to find a way somehow. A good thing I get to chat with my family when they are online. It helps ease my homesickness. I chat from time to time when I am not too busy. Okay till here for now. I'll share some pictures when I have them uploaded. Ciao!

April the 13th is my brother's birthday. Can you believe that he is already 25! When I last saw him he was only 16 years old, but now he has grown a lot to almost unrecognizable to me. If I didn't see him to be as old as he is now and suddenly see him in person, I would not recognize him at all. Boy! I've been away from home for a long, long time now. What a shame that I can't visit them. Too many years have gone by and now it seems that my chances of being able to see my family back home are gone. I have too much to worry about; problems. However, no matter what I still hope that one of these days I can still visit home and see my people. I miss them all so much. Someday I will try to save some money just so I can take trip to the Philippines.
I never thought my life would be like it is now; a difficult one. I can't move around; I am always tied up. Furthermore, I am kinda stuck in a situation where I have no extra money to get the things I needed done. Hmmm...how can I make my life any better? I want to change it? Perhaps there are some money making ideas online. I'll try them; I will look into them and see what I can do to improve myself. As for now, I will bear with my kind of life; not having enough money to live my life the way I dreamed it to. Ok let me go for now. I am finished with all that I had to do here, which is remembering some of my lost posts and repost them. Thanks for stopping by! You can now leave me comments here, feel welcome anytime.

I just want to congratulate my sister Nemia on her high school graduation. I wish her to continue her schooling and may she be successful someday. So, keep on going to school sister! Congratulations!!! Enjoy the celebration! By the way, she received an award; honorable mention I think it was. It's nice, at least she received one. Not like me when I was in school because even though I was in the top 5 in my class; I didn't get any award. I kept on hoping that I would but never did. Perhaps it was because my teachers had their favorites and it happened that I wasn't one. How frustrating. Ok till here for now. Once again, congrats, sis!