Come join us in our nesting place.

Often called in the country as Kamias (Averrhoa bilimbi). These sour fruits have medicinal value to some.

But to my family, these kamias are used as food flavoring, especially to add zing in soups we referred as sinigang. Despite the availability of instant mixes these days, my mother loves to prepare meals the old-fashioned way. And I just love to eat meals prepared her way.

Traditional sinigang may also be flavored using young tamarind fruit (unripened pods), but since we have kamias tree at home, we use these instead. For more of kamias, read here or here.

You know that your kid is spending to much time with their grandparent/s when they tell you:

Mama, sing -please - From Russia (With Love).

I’m hugging you now. Maybe holding on should really be the word. I know you could sleep without me carrying you in my arms and rocking you gently. But. Let me do this now. Let me do this for those times I wasn’t able to do this.

As you lay here in my arms, sleeping -and me, trying to maintain my balance, I cannot believe that there were times when I had wished that you could go to sleep on your own. I will not deny of those times I had longed for the moment to come when all I have to do is put you on bed.

It has come. Now is that time. And just when I have what I longed for, sadly, I keep on wishing to turn back the hands of time to when we can both go to sleep, tummy to tummy, chest to chest. Time to when I can feel the beats of your heart synchronizing with mine.

You are growing up so fast so let me just hold you now - before you leap to teen-dom with a blink of an eye.

We all know that that’s a movie (and I fell inlove with it). But while I wanted to rant and rave about how and I love this movie, I won’t. Let’s give the movie critics their job and the audience their share of anticipation.

Now moving on, this post is just my own bucket list - at this time and in this current frame of mind. I might add some one day in the future or delete one - but whatever it is, this is just how my bucket list would look like at this minute- although this doesn’t mean I will do them now.

- Enjoy.

-Laugh often.

-Cry unabashedly.

- Learn something everyday

- Take time to be silly.

- Be a kid all over again (at every opportunity presented to me).