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Happy Easter!

Wow! The Lenten Season quickly passed. It is now Easter and it is time for rejoicing. I found a lot of observations about the Lenten season but I am not gonna talk about it now, to each his own, as I would say. But I do find it nice that for the sake of argument I asked Simsimi about its opinion about eating meat on Black Saturday and it gave an opinion that I agreed with. So that was fun.

We are creating new traditions this year. Most families would be at malls in the next city and perhaps joining the Easter Egg Hunts these big malls provide. I would but seeing large crowds with about a month to go in my pregnancy feels daunting to me at best. Maybe next year, I can let the kids join.

Happily, my kids got treated to a treat because I kept bugging their dad and he found them some egg shaped chocolates which we hid around the house. As a treat, they also got to eat ice cream today and their favorite - pansit palabok. Yum!

It's so hot, I also want ice cream but I am trying to behave. So to anyone and everyone reading this! Happy Easter! I hope you find this occasion meaningful and wonderful!

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What Happens Next?

This is an all-in-one blog post and update. Being a SAHM, my only escape from my kids is when their loving grandmother takes the time to get them off my hands for a while. I have 15 minutes to write this post and I have a lot of things to say!

My kids got an extra certificate each! Yay! So proud. Their school is into Gardner's Multiple Intelligence System, so they have special awards.

My daughter got Star Pupil Award which is given to all the students, and she got Word Smart Award, which I shall fairly admit to you that it does not come as a surprise because her vocabulary is so wide and she has been using words that I must admit, I didn't even know about when I was her age.

My son also got Star Pupil Award and Nature Smart Award. Upon my research about Nature Smart Award, it is given to the one who is aware of his surroundings, loves nature, insects, trees and I know for a fact that my son loves to make sure the trash makes it to the trash can.

Not many awards are given and I am proud that in my son's class of 16 students at least he was a recipient of an extra certificate. The same goes with my daughter since my daughter's class are composed of 18 students and I think there are just 7-8 extra certificates to be given away so I am really a proud mom.

I also discovered the difficulty of having their culminating activity at the same time. I am luckier than others because my mom and my husband came, but I still wish I could be at 2 places at once. My kids look for me all the time since they are told to give their certificates to their mom.

I am both dreading and looking forward to the time when my daughter becomes a Prep student. Where the grades are not in alphabet anymore but of numerical values. Qualifying for a Most Outstanding is tremendously difficult since their school requires them to have an average of 96, no grade lower than 95 and no letter grade below VG. I don't want  to pressure my kids. I think highschool and college grades are more important.

Whew! Such a long post! You're still here? Thanks for reading my proud moment!

Summer Vacation is Coming

Friday would be the last day of school for my kids. Today was their last day of exams. It's amazing! Another school year has passed. I wonder how my kids would rate their school year. Vacation time is coming and I am now in panic mode as to what activities they should be doing this summer.

Being pregnant and big right now, my ideas are going toward playing school, doing garden work, playing backyard games and perhaps enrolling them in a 5-day cooking class at my friend's toddler school. My mom however has different ideas. My kids also have different opinions on what they want to do for their summer vacation.

We just got a new vehicle, so I am hoping for a long test drive to the homeland of my husband, but that's just a hope. If not, I would gladly settle for a revisit to Zoocobia or to satisfy my curiousity, a visit to Dasoland.
The beach is also beckoning to us. I would gladly go and bring the baby too when she's born.

We're all excited for vacation to come and wondering how life will be, after new adjustments will be made. I wonder if my kids will get any certificates this year. Hmm... I don't mind not getting any. I know they did well and their test papers prove it anyway.