i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
~ E. E. Cummings

• My siblings and I watched Narnia: Prince Caspian yesterday. We enjoyed the movie and each others’ company so much. It was a lot of fun! We shopped for some school supplies for my two sisters/teachers and for my brother. Notebooks are so expensive these days. Thank goodness I now only have 1 more sibling in school. Otherwise, I’d surely go crazy with the cost of school supplies.
• Again, I thank Him for giving me the capacity to provide for my family. Last year (and even the years before that), I had problems with stretching my budget for tuition fees and other supplies. This year, He provided me with enough this enrollment period for my brother.
• I woke up refreshed today and eager to clean up my categories here. Done with it already Now, I will start using tags.
• Thank You for the wonderful morning sunshine and for the energy I am feeling right now. It is more than enough for me to tackle several tasks I listed for today.

How was your Sunday so far? God bless everyone. Have a productive week ahead

“…for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Sometimes, we all ignore the little things that happen to us daily. But do you know that these things give us more happiness than the big ones?

• My cousin who lives in another city is just one phone call or text message away. I asked him to accompany me to buy a laptop and he readily agreed. Without him, I would have been given a defective product but since he was able to check it the same day we bought the unit, we were able to exchange it with another one.
• My brother who will be starting college in a month sits with me until 3am almost daily. You know, I just ignore his presence before but just the other day, when I was not feeling that good, I realized that his presence is a comfort to me.
• A friend of mine takes care of business when I am asleep. I really thank God that she’s there to grab when I can’t.

God bless everyone. Have a productive week ahead

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

This week, I feel so tired all the time. The daily ‘up-until-5am’ did it. Been doing this for two weeks now and it really takes a lot of energy to be able to keep up my routine. Wait! Before you think I am complaining, let me tell you that I am NOT complaining about it at all. I am merely explaining. The truth is, doing freelance consultancy work and blogging on the side is the best work I have had so far. This is one of the best blessings God has given me. I love being up until 5am. I love being my own boss. I love my work corner at home.

• This week, however tired I was, I was able to set up a new theme for this blog.
• Entrecard has been keeping the traffic coming. Thanks to tita Liza for telling me about it.
• A blogger-friend had given me ample advice about making money online. It was out of the blue and I was touched that she cared enough to tell me about it. Thanks girl, you know who you are.
• My Sasha says… blog is turning 1 year old on May 10.

Sometimes there are small things that come our way that we ignore. Stuff happen that we believe to be possible problems. But you know what, I have learned early on that these things can turn out to be blessings. We are just looking at it the wrong way.

Stop for a minute. Think of something that happened to you this past week that you thought of as something bad but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

May your days be many and your troubles be few.
May all God’s blessings descend upon you.
May peace be within you may your heart be strong.
May you find what you’re seeking wherever you roam.
- Irish Blessing

Happy Sunday everyone! Have a blessed and productive week ahead

There are so many things to be thankful for this past week. But I will highlight something that I just realized because a close friend of mine has been ranting about her situation since this morning.

I am thankful for the family I have. Most particularly with the mom that I had. No, mine was not perfect. My mom passed away in 2005. But when she was still living, she was an understanding and cool mom. I argued with her a lot. But at the end of the day, she was first and foremost my mom and ally. I could tell her everything. Let me correct that. Almost everything. And she would listen. She’d feel angry on my behalf, she’d feel offended on my behalf, she’d be proud of my accomplishments, she’d tell everyone how much I love her…

I know all these about my mom but why I chose to write this down for my very first Blog Your Blessings Sunday is because my friend has been ranting about her mom and how she finds fault in everything she does. I know her mom personally and it really seems to me that her mom loves putting her down for reasons only she knows. My friend’s situation reminded me how lucky I was that even though my mom left us early in life, at least I can remember her fondly and tell everyone how cool she was.

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)